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The red carpet has brought us a gorgeous range of looks

Hallucinations are often depicted in the movies as terrifying experiences. Think Jake Gyllenhaal seeing a monstrous rabbit in Donnie Darko, Leonardo DiCaprio experiencing the torture of Shutter Island, Natalie Portman in Black Swan, or Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker.

In today's Cannes Film Festival round-up, actors and real people re-enact the past to understand why two young sisters left Tunisia and their family to fight for the Islamic State group in Syria. "Four Daughters" comes from Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania, who is one of the seven female directors…

The Cannes Film Festival dress code allegedly requires women to wear high heels on the red carpet

Every year, the festival generates two kinds of headlines: one of premieres and prizes, another involving the spectre of misogyny. Will glamour always matter more than progress at Cannes, asks Sophie Heawood

Much of the pleasure in this focused character study is derived from its clash of styles

Todd Haynes’ film has Portman as an actor spending time with Moore’s married sex offender as research for playing her in a film

Todd Haynes’ tale of merging identities is too knowing and too glossy to drive its message home

Arguably, one of our favourite events of the year, the Cannes Film Festival delivers on two counts. Firstly, it provides valuable insight into the films that we're all going to be talking about. Secondly—and most importantly—it fulfils all our red carpet fantasies by serving glamour, gowns and jewels by the…