The Not-So-Quiet American | Foreign Affairs
In the months after Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, in May 2025, he kept a relatively low profile. He fulfilled prescheduled trips...
Orban’s Fall and Europe’s Rise
Sometime during the late 1800s, when the Austro-Hungarian Empire still stretched from the Adriatic Sea to modern-day Ukraine, a Hungarian entered a bookstore...
Cannes Film About Migrant Workers
If you were dropped into a greenhouse full of strawberries and instructed to pick everything in your row by a supervisor speaking tersely...
At Cannes 2026, the Center of Gravity Is Shifting
Hello from an early-morning train after a week at the Cannes Film Festival. I’m taking away memories of the blood geysers in Jane...
All the Lovers in the Night Film Review: Sensitive Kawakami Adaptation
As a professional proofreader, Fuyuko (Yukino Kishii) spends her days and nights finding and correcting mistakes. Others seem to find fault with her...
Cannes Publicists talk Indie Film Marketing at American Pavilion
For many filmmakers, the dream of a festival premiere where publicists handle the remainder of the workload is a light at the end...
It Wasn’t Just YouTubers Fixated This Weekend
When we spoke with “Obsession” director Curry Barker ahead of the release of his theatrical horror debut, he said “I don’t want to...
Quentin Dupieux’s Unfulfilling Father-Daughter Film
Rendered with the broad strokes of an overstated stage drama, the new surrealist comedy from Quentin Dupieux is light and largely uneventful. Despite...
Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve Lead Culture War Drama
Intolerance assumes a more progressive sheen with Cristian Mungiu’s “Fjord,” a characteristically fraught and tangled drama in which the “R.M.N.” filmmaker continues to...
Watch Diego Luna ‘Ashes’ Cannes Panel at American Pavilion
Fresh off the Cannes premiere of his new film “Ashes,” Diego Luna joined producers Valerie Delpierre and Luis Salinas at The American Pavilion for IndieWire: In Conversation — “Ashes.” The...
