Cannes 2022
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Papon opens up on representing his home state Assam at Cannes Film Festival: 'Honoured to do my bit'
Titas Chowdhury •Papon, who walked the Cannes red carpet, opens up on taking Assamese cinema to the global scale, wearing an Assamese shawl at the festival and more.
Top Gun: Maverick shows vintage Tom Cruise magic still works amidst Hollywood’s rapidly-changing milieu
Vinayakc •Tom Cruise rehauls retro glamour as Maverick, with talismanic Kawasaki Ninja superbike, leather jacket and aviator shades.
Cannes 2022: 'I have been living with Joyland for seven years,' says director Saim Sadiq
Prathap Nair •The director of Pakistani film Joyland on how he wrote a stirring portrayal of sexual awakening set in a conservative Pakistani family and his decision to cast a real trans person.
Cannes 2022: Stars at Noon is a sexually charged romantic thriller, let down by an unconvincing and wafer-thin plot
Prathap Nair •Despite Margaret Qualley’s efforts, the Claire Denis drama is uninvolved and receives surface level treatment of issues dealt with.
The importance of Tom Cruise
Manik Sharma •The man who knows no extremes returns to theatres this week to reprise a role that established him as a true Hollywood star.
Devil’s Advocate | Bollywood can look southward for inspiration rather than westward at Cannes and Oscars
Manik Sharma •The overemphasis on an elite festival that frankly, to the majority of India means nothing, is evidence that the Hindi film industry needs to re-discover the soul that has of late become missing. Chances are you won’t find it on the French Riviera.
Making a point: When the Cannes red carpet served as the ideal ground for protests
Fp Explainers •This year's edition of the Cannes film festival has seen two protests within three days; a woman tore across the red carpet naked on Friday, highlighting rapes in Ukraine. This was followed by a protest against femicide in France
Writer Sukhmani Sadana on working with R Madhavan for Rocketry: The Nambi Effect and its premiere at Cannes
Natalia Ningthoujam •Sukhmani Sadana said that working with R. Madhavan on his directorial debut Rocketry: The Nambi Effect was a delightful experience.
Cannes 2022: Holy Spider is a bold piece of filmmaking by filmmaker Ali Abbasi
Prathap Nair •Misogyny, cloaked in rabid religious fanaticism, almost exalts a serial killer in Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider, one of the two competition entries from Iran this year at the Cannes Film Festival.
Cannes 2022: Alex Garland's edgy noir Men is lifted by Jesse Buckley's effervescent screen presence
Prathap Nair •Men is heavily allegorical, slathering morbid symbolism on a simple tale of a broken relationship between a couple struggling to wean themselves off each other.