Cannes 2025 #5, with Kong Rithdee and Neta Alexander

Cannes 2025 has arrived—and you can count on our on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors to cut through the noise with thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and Podcasts. This year's festival is packed with exciting premieres, including new films from Richard Linklater, Lynne Ramsay, Spike Lee, Bi Gan, Julia Ducournau, Wes Anderson, and many more. For our fifth episode from the French Riviera, Film Comment Editor Devika Girish is joined by critic Kong Rithdee and scholar Neta Alexander to discuss some of the most highly anticipated premieres to screen to date, including Christian Petzold's Mirrors No. 3 (2:30), Sebastián Lelio's The Wave (16:50), and Kleber Mendonça Filho's The Secret Agent (27:14). Subscribe today to The Film Comment Letter for a steady stream of Cannes coverage, providing everything you need to know about the 2025 edition.

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