Author: Deadline

TITLE: PEAK EVERYTHING (Amour apocalypse) Section: Directors’ Fortnight Director: Anne Émond Logline: Adam (Patrick Hivon) is a kind-hearted kennel-owner. To help combat his eco-anxiety, Adam orders a therapeutic solar lamp. Through the lamp’s supplier’s technical support line, he meets Tina (Piper Perabo), a woman with a voice that soothes all of his worries. This unexpected encounter changes everything: earth trembles, and hearts explode…  Sales agent: Indie Sales (international) Distributor (Canada): Immina Films Panelists: Anne Émond (writer/director), Piper Perabo, Patrick Hivon, Connor Jessup (actors).Key quotes: “I sat down one night and I read it, and thought it was audacious. I thought it was…

The Cannes Film Festival competition this evening tuned into The History of Sound, director Oliver Hermanus’ first time in the main theater. It was met with a nine-minute ovation that only slowed as they had to load in the next film premiere. The long-in-the-works period movie stars Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor in a story of love and music that spans decades. In his remarks to the crowd following the screening, Hermanus praised “the genius that is Paul Mescal.” Mescal plays Lionel, a talented singer from rural Kentucky raised on the songs his father sang. In 1917, he leaves his…

Mario Martone‘s Cannes Film Festival Competition title Fuori had its world premiere Tuesday night at the Lumière Theater, earning a 7 1/2–minute ovation. From a script by Ippolita Di Majo and Martone, and starring Valeria Golino as writer Goliarda Sapienza, Fuori is inspired by Sapienza’s 1983 autobiography L’Università di Rebibbia (The University of Rebibbia) and follows her journey as the Italian publishing world rejects L’arte della gioia (The Art of Joy), the book she dedicated a decade to writing. Reeling from this blow, Sapienza is promptly arrested and imprisoned for jewelry theft, but there is a silver lining: she forms…

Once again, French director Julia Ducournau takes us into the lower depths. Four years after winning the Palme d’Or with her extraordinary Titane – in which humans and cars fused with grinding, crunching erotic energy – she returns to the Cannes Film Festival competition with Alpha, a film just as likely as Titane to divide audiences between the dazzled and disgusted. Once again, Ducournau sets herself on a collision course with the human body, its hungers, wounds and weaknesses. A heroin addict writhes in agonies of withdrawal; a tattoo keeps gushing blood; most significantly, a virus is circulating that gradually…

Refresh for latest…: Coming in ahead of projections, New Line/Warner Bros’ Final Destination Bloodlines has arrived with a $102M global start this weekend. In a rare feat, that number is made up of an even split of $51M each from domestic and the international box office for the well-reviewed title.  Overseas, the Zach Lipovsky- and Adam B. Stein-directed installment is by far the best debut of the long-running franchise. It ranked No. 1 in 53 offshore markets this session, and in like-for-likes is tracking above Smile (+232%), Happy Death Day (+194%), Saw X (+173%), Final Destination 5 (+133%) and The…

Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson took to the Cannes red carpet this evening for the world premiere of new film Die My Love, directed by Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here). The Competition movie is based on the 2017 novel by Ariana Harwicz and also stars LaKeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte. Set in rural America, the film is a portrait of a married woman’s mental disintegration as post-natal depression consumes and obliterates her. Pattinson plays her husband, and Stanfield her lover.  In Deadline’s review, Damon Wise was impressed by Ramsay’s “mesmerizing film,” describing it as a “brutal but…

Danny and Michael Philippou‘s sophomore feature is another grief-driven horror that doubles down on the darkness with help from Sally Hawkins and a talented young ensemble. In Bring Her Back, Billy Barratt and Sora Wong play Andy and Piper, two siblings who are sent to live with a seemingly warm foster mother, Laura (Hawkins), after coming home from school to discover their father’s dead body. Also mourning the death of her own daughter, Laura begins exhibiting disturbing behavior in her treatment of Andy and her other mute foster child Oliver (Jonah Wren Phillips), of which the partially-sighted Piper is blissfully…

A compilation of all of Deadline’s movie reviews from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

While discussing actors he considers his peers on a podcast recently, Oscar-winner Sean Penn took the conversation in a somewhat unexpected direction. He didn’t mention fellow Oscar-winner Daniel Day Lewis, to whom many often compare him. He reached back to a very long ago co-star with whom he says he still has a very friendly relationship. “Tom Cruise…he is a guy who pursues excellence on a very high level,” Penn replied. Penn quickly addressed the apples-to-oranges questions some might raise about the differences between the kind of indie films he makes and the blockbusters that Cruise does. “Now, I understand…

Amélie Bonnin’s romantic dramedy Leave One Day (Partir un Jour) made history at the Cannes Film Festival this evening, becoming the first debut feature to ever open the event.  It also got a five-minute-plus ovation from the crowd. Leave One Day builds on Bonnin’s 2023 César-winning short film of the same name. The romantic musical revolves around rising chef Cécile (Juliette Armanet), who is about to fulfill a lifelong ambition of opening her own signature gourmet restaurant in Paris. Cécile is forced to put the project on hold when her father suffers a heart attack and she is called back to her small…