How an 80s punk lyric became the rallying cry of French protests against the far right
François Guillemot’s band, Bérurier Noir, wrote Porcherie in 1985. In the lead-up to a watershed election in France, its lyrics are making a comeback among the youth, politicians and celebrities alike
September 2023
First look review
Lee review – Kate Winslet is an ex-model on a mission in musty biopic
From The Critic to Wicked Little Letters: 10 films to look out for at Toronto film festival 2023
May 2023
Cannes film festival: the best red carpet looks so far – in pictures
From Dua Lipa to Gigi Hadid, flip-flops to #mermaidcore, the Croisette turned out its yearly assortment of delights
December 2022
Charlotte review – absorbing animation about a remarkable artist, murdered at Auschwitz
Keira Knightley gives voice to Charlotte Salomon, the German-Jewish painter who said she killed her own grandfather after he abused her, in a powerful but flawed biopic
October 2022
‘For freedom’: French actors cut their hair in support of Iranian women
Celebrities including Juliette Binoche and Marion Cotillard stage protest after death of Mahsa Amini
May 2022
Brother and Sister review – sibling battle with Marion Cotillard that leaves us all losers
The latest in Arnaud Desplechin’s overwrought oeuvre features plenty of film-making elan but not one line of plausible dialogue
January 2022
Macbeth movies have been foul and fair – Joel Coen’s is a stunner
The Tragedy of Macbeth follows in the footsteps of Orson Welles’s bold 1948 film, which showed how imagination can turn Shakespeare’s text into more than just a costume epic
November 2021
Smell of success: How Chanel No 5 gained a sprinkling of stardust
As the fragrance turns 100, Chanel’s perfumer-in-chief Olivier Polge describeswhat it takes to create and curate a classic brand
September 2021
Mark Kermode's film of the week
Annette review – Leos Carax’s bonkers but beautiful musical fantasy
Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard are all but upstaged by their puppet child in this tragicomic pop opera
July 2021
‘We have a hostility to being boring’: Sparks, still flying in their 70s
Annette review – Adam Driver magnificent in wild Sparks musical
June 2021
Cannes makes up for lost time with a thrilling auteur-packed lineup
Peter Bradshaw
After a year off, Leos Carax should have punters at each others’ throats – and Wes Anderson will boost the blood sugar
April 2021
Sparks musical with Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard to open Cannes film festival
Written by Ron and Russell Mael and set in Los Angeles, Annette is the first English-language film by Holy Motors director Leos Carax
August 2020
From Memento to Interstellar: our writers pick their favourite Christopher Nolan films
With the much-anticipated staggered release of Tenet, writers argue why each of Christopher Nolan’s 10 previous films should be seen as his best
January 2020
Dolittle review – Robert Downey Jr's middling talking-animals pantomime
The Avengers star opts for a dodgy Welsh accent in an uninspiring if not entirely unwatchable new take on the animal-friendly doctor
December 2019
The most anticipated movies of 2020
The most exciting movies of 2020 – musicals
Spielberg retells West Side Story, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s pre-Hamilton hit finally arrives, while Everyone’s Talking About Jamie transfers from the West End
May 2018
Angel Face review – Marion Cotillard is wasted in tabloid tale of boozy mum and mini-me daughter
Cotillard gives it some tragic welly as the alcoholic antihero of Vanessa Filho’s debut, but this would still be daytime-telly-inspired film-making, no matter how much you’d had to drink
January 2018
Marion Cotillard on Woody Allen: 'The experience we had together was very odd'
The Midnight in Paris star said she was ‘ignorant’ of stories of alleged sexual abuse and would ‘dig more’ if he asked her to work with him again
June 2017
From the Land of the Moon review – feverish melodrama
Marion Cotillard stars as a free-spirited woman trapped in an unhappy marriage
