JAMES GRAY

Ruben Ostlund’s social satire “Triangle of Sadness” has won the Palme d’Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, handing Ostlund one of cinema’s most prestigious prizes for the second time.

James Gray’s autobiographical coming of age film “Armageddon Time,” starring Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong, has made the biggest splash of an American film not starring Tom Cruise at the Cannes Film Festival

James Gray’s autobiographical coming of age film “Armageddon Time,” starring Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong, has made the biggest splash of an American film not starring Tom Cruise at the Cannes Film Festival.

After the 2020 Cannes Film Festival was canceled by the pandemic and the 2021 edition was scaled back — even kisses were forbade on the red carpet — the lavish French Riviera cinema soiree is set to return with a festival that promises to be something like normal.

The director of "Ad Astra" is apologizing for keeping things highbrow, which is no reason to apologize at all. Anyone who has watched a Gray movie, which he writes or co-writes as well as directs, will know this extends to his filmmaking. "Ad Astra," Gray's seventh feature, sees the director handed a significantly larger budget than usual to realize his ambitious near-future sci-fi thriller. "Ad Astra" wrestles with it too (although it would be egregious to spoil the film's answer). "Ad Astra" is released in the UK on September 18 and in the US on September 20.