Cannes 2024

Illustrations by Maddie Fischer.

Throughout the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, we'll be publishing a wide variety of interviews, dispatches, capsules, ballots, and lists. Subscribe to the Weekly Edit newsletter for exclusive contributions from filmmakers, critics, and programmers on the Croisette.

Interviews

“A Whole World: A Conversation with Andrea Arnold” by Caitlin Quinlan

^{The Carrosse d’Or–winner describes her raw, lived-in films as cinematic jigsaw puzzles.}

“America Lost and Found: Carson Lund and Tyler Taormina in Conversation” by Jordan Cronk

^{The directors of Eephus and Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, respectively, discuss their strange suburban ensemble pieces.}

“Dream Machine: Hala Elkoussy on East of Noon” by Caitlin Quinlan

^{An Egyptian fable stages a rebellion in the middle of nowhere and outside of time.} 

“Mushrooms Can Grow from Dead Bodies: Alain Guiraudie on Misericordia” by Beatrice Loayza

^{The director’s latest is an elegy for impossible love.} 

“Hope Doesn't Exist If You've Never Seen It: Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine As Light” by Leonardo Goi

^{The director discusses her Grand Prix winner, an entrancing tale of urban alienation and sisterhood.}

“Film for Exiles: Mahdi Fleifel on To a Land Unknown” by Caitlin Quinlan

^{The only Palestinian film at Cannes presented a rare moment of solidarity in an otherwise apolitical festival.} 

Dispatches

“The Center Will Not Hold” by Leonardo Goi

^{While the festival maintained its routine ostrich-like stance, some of the most intriguing films dove right into our troubled times.}

“Final Warnings” by Daniel Kasman

^{Quentin Dupieux’s latest and Jean-Luc Godard’s last interrogate the death and life of great cinema.}

“Let There Be Light” by Leonardo Goi

^{Beyond works by established filmmakers, some of the festival’s most singular titles were films from new and emerging voices.}

“Ashes of Time” by Daniel Kasman

^{Jia Zhangke, Cheang Soi, and David Cronenberg unite form and subject in films concerned with the march of time.}

Capsules

“First Impressions” by Giovanni Marchini Camia, Jordan Cronk, Beatrice Loayza, Flavia Dima, Leonardo Goi, and Daniel Kasman

“One Moment” by Miriam Bale, Daniel Kasman, Caitlin Quinlan, Nicolas Rapold, Hannah Strong, Adam Piron, Jon Dieringer, Illyse Singer, and Mark Asch

“Anything But” by Isabel Stevens, Vadim Rizov, Ela Bittencourt, Elena Lazic, Tyler Taormina, Beatrice Loayza, and Daniel Kasman

Extras

Festival Ballots

^{Somewhere between a critics’ grid and a yearbook superlatives page, attendees weigh in on their impressions of the festival.}