Cannes 2015: baffling set of prizes take the edge off a great competition...
Giving the Palme d’Or to Audiard’s Dheepan may be an act of recognition for a brilliant director, but it’s less worthy of the big prize than Carol or The AssassinJacques Audiard’s Dheepan wins the...
View ArticleJacques Audiard hopes Dheepan's Cannes win will help Europe's migrants
After his Palme d’Or win for the story of a former Tamil Tiger seeking a new life in France, Audiard said that it is ‘important to reflect’ on the current situationJacques Audiard has said he hopes the...
View ArticleJacques Audiard to adapt The Sisters Brothers for English-language debut
The Beat That My Heart Skipped director saddles up to direct western starring John C ReillyJacques Audiard’s English-language debut will be a western set during the California gold rush starring John C...
View ArticleDheepan’s Antonythasan Jesuthasan: from Tamil Tiger to star of a Palme d’Or...
The lead in Jacques Audiard’s latest film left Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war and arrived in France to work a series of low-paid jobs. His extraordinary story is mirrored in the new work from the...
View ArticleJacques Audiard: ‘I wanted to give migrants a name, a shape… a violence of...
The award-winning French director Jacques Audiard talks about his love of westerns, the trouble with CGI and his new film, Dheepan, the story of Tamil refugees on a tough Parisian housing estateSo...
View ArticleDheepan review – a crime drama packed with epiphanic grandeur
Jacques Audiard’s confident Palme d’Or-winner has a rare and keen interest in its characters – a trio of Tamil refugees in Paris – and an exhilarating mastery of styleThere is such exhilarating movie...
View ArticleDheepan star Antonythasan Jesuthasan: 'I went through 50% of this experience'...
The star of Dheepan, Jacques Audiard’s drama about a former Tamil Tiger who, along with two strangers, pretends to be part of a family in order to seek refuge in a gangland estate in the Paris...
View ArticleDheepan review – dirt, debris, squalor… and utterly gripping
Jacques Audiard’s bold tale of Tamil refugees attempting to make a new life in a Paris banlieue is let down only by a jarring conclusionFrench director Jacques Audiard does things his own way: his...
View ArticleWhy Dheepan's take on immigration isn't helpful
Jacques Audiard’s depiction of Sri Lankans faking family ties to escape war is powerful, but highly selective in both the challenges the outcasts meet and its toxic depiction of France’s multiracial...
View ArticleJoaquin Phoenix set to play Jesus and a brother called Sisters
The Oscar-nominated actor eyed to play Christ opposite Rooney Mara’s Mary Magdalene, and to take the lead in Jacques Audiard’s English-language debutLast week, Joaquin Phoenix was being lined up to...
View ArticleOriginal Observer photography: April 2016
Comedians, pop stars, artists, a would-be space travel tycoon and a wonderful pensioner with a ‘royal’ birthday all feature in this showcase of the best photography commissioned by the Observer in...
View ArticleThe most exciting films of 2017: returning auteurs
In the latest in our 10-part series, we run through, in alphabetical order, the films we are most looking forward to next year by the world’s most singular directors Check back here for the full...
View ArticleThe Sisters Brothers review: Jacques Audiard saddles up for a subtle and...
The English-language debut from the French director is an all-American delight, starring Joaquin Phoenix and John C Reilly perfect as sad, squabbling siblings Jacques Audiard is the French director who...
View ArticleThe 100 best films of the 21st century
Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000The director of our No...
View ArticleCannes makes up for lost time with a thrilling auteur-packed lineup | Peter...
After a year off, Leos Carax should have punters at each others’ throats – and Wes Anderson will boost the blood sugarNews: Cannes film festival set for bumper yearSo, after its unprecedented break...
View ArticleParis, 13th District review – Jacques Audiard’s sexy apartment-block anthology
Audiard brings his typical visual fluency to this entertaining collection of interlocking stories about characters hooking up in the 13th arrondissementJacques Audiard’s freewheeling ensemble picture...
View ArticleActor Noémie Merlant: ‘Women have been taught to see ourselves through other...
The Portrait of a Lady on Fire star talks about her role in Jacques Audiard’s new dating drama, making a documentary about her own family, and the Hollywood actor who inspires her The French actor...
View ArticleParis, 13th District review – a compelling portrayal of relationships in the...
An excellent ensemble cast powers Jacques Audiard’s French take on Adrian Tomine’s comic-book talesAfter the tonal uncertainties of his English-language western flopThe Sisters Brothers, French...
View ArticleThe best films of 2022 so far
Tilda Swinton aces Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s dreamy fable, director Clio Barnard’s forbidden affair and Catherine Clinch in The Quiet Girl rank in the pick of this year’s filmsMore of 2022’s best...
View ArticleThe 50 best films of 2022 in the UK
The No 1 film is a stunning directorial debut, one of the finest cinematic moments of any year – see which other movies you may have missedRead the US Top 50 movies of 2022More of the best culture of...
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