This is Beirut, 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Cinema Ana de Armas Actress Film Culture Art
Ana de Armas steps into the spotlight alongside Keanu Reeves in Ballerina, the highly anticipated spin-off of the John Wick saga, hitting theaters this Wednesday. The 37-year-old actress plays Eve Maccaro, a ballerina-turned-deadly assassin raised and trained by the Ruska Roma, a shadowy organized crime syndicate. Eve is on a relentless quest to ...
Marie-Christine Tayah, 26/05 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Adèle Exarchopoulos Actress Cinema Cannes Culture Art
Born in Paris in 1993, Adèle Exarchopoulos shot to fame at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival through Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is the Warmest Color. At the request of jury president Steven Spielberg, she was awarded the Palme d’Or alongside the director and her co-star Léa Seydoux—her “greatest love story on screen,” as she recently ...
This is Beirut, 26/05 14:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Disney Cinema Movie Box Office Culture Art
Theaters across North America are enjoying an exceptional Memorial Day holiday weekend, with two new much-anticipated blockbusters bringing in an estimated box office totaling well over $250 million, analysts said Sunday. Disney's family-friendly Lilo & Stitch earned an estimated $183 million, a record for the four-day Memorial Day weekend, ...
This is Beirut, 26/05 10:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Cinema Documentary Culture Art Marcel Ophuls
Oscar-winning filmmaker Marcel Ophuls, who blew the lid off the myth that France resisted its World War II Nazi occupiers in The Sorrow and the Pity, has died aged 97, his family said Monday. Ophuls, who was the son of renowned German Jewish director Max Ophuls, "died peacefully on May 24", his grandson Andreas-Benjamin Seyfert said in a ...
Bélinda Ibrahim, 25/05 18:30 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Cannes 2025 Iran Cinema Cannes Film Festival Jafar Panahi
From the very start of this 78th edition, the tone was set. The official poster, showing a couple running along a beach, taken from Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman, said it all: a nod to romance, but also to the familiar. This year, Cannes offered both comfort and disruption. Comfort, in the form of familiar faces: Claude Lelouch, Daniel ...
Marie-Christine Tayah, 25/05 10:10 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Cannes Film Festival Cannes2025 Cinema France Culture Closing Ceremony
After ten intense days, Cannes brought down the curtain in an atmosphere of artistic elevation. It was a festival that felt political, raw and deeply human—where voices rose to fill the silence onscreen. As always, the iconic “Aquarium” piece from The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns played before each red carpet entrance, ...
This is Beirut, 24/05 21:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Cannes Film Festival Cannes2025 France Cinema Jafar Panahi Iran
The curtain came down on the 78th Cannes Film Festival Saturday night with a deeply symbolic moment on the Croisette: Iranian director and political dissident Jafar Panahi was awarded the Palme d’Or for his underground film It Was Just an Accident. Shot in secret, the film moved the jury—chaired by Juliette Binoche—who granted it the ...
This is Beirut, 24/05 10:30 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Cannes Film Festival Cannes2025 France Cinema Culture Art
A total of 22 films are competing for the top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival, which wraps up on Saturday. Here is a list of the titles vying for the Palme d'Or, which will be awarded by this year's jury president Juliette Binoche and her seven fellow judges, including Oscar-winner Halle Berry and Succession star Jeremy Strong. A ...
Bélinda Ibrahim, 23/05 17:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Cannes Film Festival Cinema Culture Cannes
Some films speak, others depict, but rare are those that feel like paintings. At Cannes 2025, two films in competition stand out for their deep connection to visual art: Renoir by Chie Hayakawa and The Phoenician Scheme by Wes Anderson. The first explores the intimate world of a young girl immersed in Impressionism. The second, more stylized, ...
Bélinda Ibrahim, 21/05 17:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Cannes Film Festival Cinema France Culture Cannes 2025
It’s easy to assume that Cannes winds down after the last screening, that the gowns are packed away and everything fades into the next day’s headlines. But that’s a misconception of the true rhythm of the Croisette. After 8 PM, a different atmosphere takes over. A cinema without screens, yet one where everything can begin. This parallel ...
This is Beirut, 21/05 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Kristen Stewart Cannes Film Festival Cinema Cannes2025 Culture France
"I can't wait to make 10 more movies," Kristen Stewart told AFP the morning after making what Rolling Stone called "one hell of a directorial debut" at the Cannes Film Festival. Nor can film critics, judging from the rave reviews of The Chronology of Water, her startling take on the American swimmer Lidia Yuknavitch's visceral memoir of surviving ...
Bélinda Ibrahim, 20/05 17:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Festival Cannes Cinema Red Carpet France
In Cannes, everything seems to float. Spectacular gowns, knowing glances and intense spotlight beams. Yet, beneath this radiant veneer, hundreds of anonymous figures move quietly behind the scenes. They don’t climb the steps or feature in Instagram stories. But without them, the red carpet would simply be a piece of red fabric. Every ...