Cannes 2026 Dispatch With Peter Bradshaw

The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw has been sending dispatches from Cannes since 1999. If you ask him what’s changed in 27 years, he claims: nothing. He means it as a compliment.

Hugo Emmerzael sits down with the legendary film critic on the Croisette mapping out Peter’s journey through film, from his first memory of cinema through the strange, accidental route into one of the most-read critic chairs in the English-speaking press. They get into why only Cannes, among the major film festivals, still places film criticism at the heart of it all.

Plus five films that caught Peter’s attention this year: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur, Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Beloved, Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva, and Clio Barnard’s I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, and why we should value the politics inside the films rather than the statements and press conferences around them.

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