Steve Pond

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Bono on His Movie, His Memoir and Being ‘Totally Pretentious’: ‘I Promise I’m Coming Back to Rock ‘n’ Roll’One of the most unusual visitors to this year’s Cannes Film Festival was a 65-year-old Irishman named Paul David Hewson, better known as Bono to the …

2 weeks ago | thewrap.com | Steve Pond

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival is announcing the winners of its annual awards at a ceremony on Saturday evening in France. TheWrap will update the list of winners as they are announced. The winners have been chosen by a jury headed by French actress Juliette Binoche.

2 weeks ago | thewrap.com | Steve Pond

You’d have to look far and wide to find a film as aggressively confrontational as “Yes.” Director Nadav Lapid wouldn’t have it any other way – staging his latest feature as a wail against his audience, his country, and above all, himself. Premiering at the tail end of Cannes’ independent and more outré Director’s Fortnight sidebar, if only because a film this incendiary might have burned up the whole Palais, “Yes” takes aim at post-Oct. 7 Israel, relaying civic dissent through primal screams.

2 weeks ago | thewrap.com | Steve Pond

Take it as an informal rule – in cinema as in life – that the couple boasting about their open marriage will probably not make it. As a corollary, take it on faith that the comedy duo of Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin are uniquely adept at mining that premise for laughs. At least from the male perspective.

2 weeks ago | thewrap.com | Steve Pond

Diego Cespedes’ “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo” has been named the best film of the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, the UCR jury announced on Friday. The film follows an 11-year-old girl growing up in the early 1980s in a queer family in a small Chilean mining town, where suspicion is growing over a mysterious disease that is rumored to be spread by glances between gay men. Simón Mesa Soto’s “A Poet” won the Jury Prize, the second-place award.