Cannes 2025 has arrived—and you may rely on our on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors to chop by the noise with considerate dispatches, interviews, and Podcasts. This 12 months’s competition is full of thrilling premieres, together with new movies from Richard Linklater, Lynne Ramsay, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Spike Lee, Bi Gan, Julia Ducournau, Wes Anderson, and lots of extra.

For our third episode from the sunny shores of southern France, Film Comment contributors Mark Asch and Beatrice Loayza be part of Editor Devika Girish to unpack two of probably the most go-for-broke picks to display screen up to now—Oliver Laxe’s Sirât (2:25) and Ari Aster’s Eddington (21:20)—earlier than turning to the extra modest charms of Hafsia Herzi’s The Little Sister (41:20).

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