Daily Films for Cannes May 14th in English
IN COMPETITION
A WOMAN’S LIFE by CHARLINE BOURGEOIS-TACQUET at 9:30
Runtime: 1h38
Gabrielle, 55, gives herself to her work, body and soul. As a surgeon and head of the hospital department, she is constantly on the move, stretched thin by the weight of responsibility. There is little time left for her private life: a loving husband and a mother who depends on her care. Yet this is the life she wanted, the life she chose. When a novelist comes to observe her at work for a book, her balance begins to shift. How far is she willing to go to shake what she has built?
NAGI NOTES by FUKADA KOJI at 12:30
Runtime: 1h50
Yoriko, an artist living in rural Nagi, is haunted by a former love affair she cannot bear to mourn. When Yuri, a recently separated architect, travels from Tokyo to visit her friend and former sister-in-law, both women find themselves at a crossroad, each searching for ways to let go of the past and define their identities. Yuri’s brief escape from the city settles into a quiet confrontation of loss and probing for the two women in bucolic Nagi.
FATHERLAND by PAWEŁ PAWLIKOWSKI at 18:00
Runtime: 1h22
FATHERLAND centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika, actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins – from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. Returning home after sixteen years of exile in the US, Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also deep fracture within his own family.
With FATHERLAND, Pawlikowski picks up where he left off with his award-winning Ida and Cold War, exploring – in his elliptic, distilled way – the themes of identity, family, love and guilt amid the turmoil and confusion of post-war Europe.
PARALLEL TALES by ASGHAR FARHADI at 20:30
Runtime: 2h20
In search of inspiration for her new novel, Sylvie spies on her neighbors across the street. When she hires young Adam to help her with her daily routine, she has no idea that he will turn her life and her work upside down, until the fiction she had imagined surpasses the reality of them all.
CANNES PREMIERE
TANGLES by LEAH NELSON at 18:30
Runtime: 1h42
When Alzheimer’s begins to erase her mother’s vibrant personality, Sarah leaves her exciting life as an activist and artist in 90’s San Francisco to return to her eccentric family in the conservative small town she recently fled. Initially confident she can manage the situation, she soon realizes she must accept the harsh, disorienting reality of the disease to become the daughter her family needs.
MOLIERE, CYRANO AND THE YOUNG KING by MICHEL LECLERC at 21:00
Runtime: 1h58
During a Paris rebellion, young Louis XIV must be hidden and is secretly replaced at court by a look-alike. Entrusted to the musketeer-poet Cyrano de Bergerac, Louis is sheltered within Madeleine’s traveling theater troupe, where the actor and aspiring playwright Molière has just joined – unaware their newest member is the future king. As Cyrano struggles to handle the arrogant and clumsy young king, he begins writing a bold play for the troupe. Molière, bursting with ideas, transforms the work with wit and heart, awakening his genius for comedy and deepening his secret feelings for Madeleine, while young Louis discovers the joy of theater and the power of friendship. In Paris, intrigue is brewing – can the young king return in time and embrace his true royal destiny?
MARIE MADELEINE by GÉSSICA GÉNÉUS at 21:30
Runtime: 1h43
In Jacmel, on Haiti’s southern coast, the sea, the churches, and the spirits shape everyday life. Marie Madeleine is a free woman. She lives from prostitution and moves through the nights without submitting to the rules of those who claim to save souls. When her path crosses that of Joseph, a young believer deeply involved in an evangelical community, a relationship forms between these two beings who seem to have nothing in common. As Joseph begins to waver in his faith, Marie Madeleine draws him into a world where desire, belief, and the search for freedom open a space where everything can be reinvented.
SANGUINE by MARION LE CORROLLER at 00:00
Runtime: 1h35
Margot, a young intern at the most competitive ER in the country, has trouble keeping up in this stressful environment.
As she’s confronted with multiple patients her age presenting unusual symptoms, her own body starts to show disturbing changes…
UN CERTAIN REGARD
QUELQUES MOTS D’AMOUR by RUDI ROSENBERG at 11:30
Runtime: 1h35
For 14 years, Erika has been the anchor of a household that rarely stands still, doing her best to raise teenage Abigail, her whirlwind little brother, Yoni, and a dog with an extreme devotion to cheese. When Abi’s desire to meet her absent father grows into a full-blown obsession and word spreads he’s been seen nearby, Erika fears the fragile balance will collapse for good. Instead, the unpredictable journey that follows brings mother and daughter to see each other anew, steering their lively, lovable family toward a happy new chapter.
THE MELTDOWN by MANUELA MARTELLI at 14:00
Runtime: 1h48
Chile, 1992. Staying at her grandparents’ remote hotel near an Andean ski resort, Inés (9) befriends Hanna (15), a German skier. When Hanna vanishes without a trace, the search for her exposes hidden truths.
CANNES CLASSICS
MAN OF IRON by ANDRZEJ WAJDA at 15:00
Runtime: 2h33
A radio journalist has to prepare a report compromising an activist of the strike committee named Tomczyk in the Gdansk Shipyard. He manages to get to the shipyard area, which is occupied by the workers. The hectic summer of 1980 continues. The journalist meets a friend who tells him about Tomczyk, a college friend. He also manages to get a pass to see Tomczyk’s interned wife, Agnieszka, and visits the family of an old union activist. Influenced by these meetings, he decides to reject the order.
THE GOLDEN AGE by BÉRENGER THOUIN at 16:00
Runtime: 1h53
Born at the turn of the century in a village’s butcher shop, Jeanne Lavaur dreams of becoming a countess. Inspired by the fearless Céleste and guided by her love for Guillaume de Barante, Jeanne’s journey carries her from the vibrant Paris of the Golden Twenties through the turmoil of two world wars. As her life intertwines with the great upheavals of the 20th century, she rises as a fiercely free woman, determined to never let anyone else define who she is meant to be.
A LIFE, A MANIFESTO by JEAN-GABRIEL PÉRIOT at 18:45
Runtime: 1h26
From the Second World War to the Algerian War, from the benches of IDHEC to the guerrillas of the FAR in Guatemala, and through Castro–Guevara-era Cuba, A Manifest Life traces the extraordinary destiny of Michele Firk—a woman passionate about cinema and revolution, a free lover, completely liberated from the conventions of her time.
KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS by KEN RUSSELL at 21:15
Runtime: 1h54
A dramatized historical account of the rise and fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest accused of witchcraft following the supposed possessions in Loudun, France; it also focuses on Sister Jeanne des Anges, a sexually repressed nun who inadvertently incites the accusations.
SÉANCES DU LENDEMAIN
TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA by JANE SCHOENBRUN at 8:30
Runtime 1h46
The infamous Camp Miasma slasher franchise is getting rebooted yet again.
But when the latest movie’s director becomes obsessed with the mysterious, reclusive actress who played the “final girl” in the original film, a whole new kind of slasher emerges from the bottom of the lake.
NAGI NOTES by FUKADA KOJI at 9:00
Runtime: 1h50
Yoriko, an artist living in rural Nagi, is haunted by a former love affair she cannot bear to mourn. When Yuri, a recently separated architect, travels from Tokyo to visit her friend and former sister-in-law, both women find themselves at a crossroad, each searching for ways to let go of the past and define their identities. Yuri’s brief escape from the city settles into a quiet confrontation of loss and probing for the two women in bucolic Nagi.
A WOMAN’S LIFE by CHARLINE BOURGEOIS-TACQUET at 11:30
Runtime: 1h38
Gabrielle, 55, gives herself to her work, body and soul. As a surgeon and head of the hospital department, she is constantly on the move, stretched thin by the weight of responsibility. There is little time left for her private life: a loving husband and a mother who depends on her care. Yet this is the life she wanted, the life she chose. When a novelist comes to observe her at work for a book, her balance begins to shift. How far is she willing to go to shake what she has built?
THE MATCH by JUAN CABRAL & SANTIAGO FRANCO at 14:00
Runtime: 1h31
THE MATCH tells the story of the iconic match between Argentina and England, played at the Azteca Stadium during the 1986 Football World Cup.
Using rare archival footage such as Maradona’s controversial “Hand of God”, the film reconstructs that event as a living memory but also as the culmination of more than two hundred years of tension, encounters, and conflict between the two nations.
From the earliest moments of contact and dispute to the Falklands War as a direct precursor, the film traces a historical journey that reframes what happened on the pitch. In doing so, it subtly contrasts the beauty of football with the lingering absurdity of war, allowing the echoes of both to resonate into the present day.
