The actress who plays the lead role of a sex addict in controversial new film Nymphomaniac, featuring real sex scenes, has revealed she took her parents along to a screening.

Willem Dafoe has joined the cast of 'Nymphomaniac'.

Uma Thurman has reportedly signed to Lars Von Trier's erotic drama 'Nymphomaniac'.

From Rihanna to Holly Willoughby, going without make up is the latest celebrity ruse to hit the headlines. Can Edel Coffey do it for a day?

Shia LaBeouf is set to star in 'Nymphomaniac'.

A new film starring rocker Pete Doherty has premiered at the exclusive Cannes Film Festival.

Fresh from a reunion tour with Pavement, Stephen Malkmus has a new album with The Jicks, says Ed Power

JOHN MADDEN’S The Debt (15A) opens in modern Israel, with Rachel (Helen Mirren) attending the launch of her daughter’s book, which details a mission carried out by three Mossad agents in East Berlin during the 1960s.

THE Tree of Life, an epic and ambitious coming-of-age film that took years for enigmatic US director Terrence Malick to bring to the screen, won top honours last night at the Cannes festival.

Danish director Lars Von Trier has been banned from the Cannes Film Festival and declared “persona non grata” after telling a press conference he was a Nazi and could understand Hitler.

CONTROVERSIAL director Lars Von Trier may not win the Palme d’Or at this, year’s Cannes Film Festival but he appears odds-on favourite to take the prize for the strangest press conference.

Director Lars Von Trier admitted Kirsten Dunst is a better actress than he thought when he gave her a part in his new film.

STARGAZERS already were catching sight of some of Hollywood’s biggest stars at the Cannes Film Festival well before Midnight in Paris, the Woody Allen romance that opened the glamorous event last night.

Pete Doherty is taking waltz lessons, it has emerged.

Cult band OK Go last night landed an accolade for video of the year for a mind-boggling one-take film which created a YouTube sensation.

As controversial a film as any released in recent years, one that has had critics and audiences sharply divided between it being crass, cruel and graphically unpleasant and an art-house movie of epic and life-changing proportions.

Willem Dafoe has "no idea" what his latest film 'Antichrist' is about.

Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke has walked away with the top honor at this year's Cannes Film Festival for his drama 'The White Ribbon'.

ERIC CANTONA said yesterday that working with Ken Loach on his latest film was like being coached by Man Utd boss Alex Ferguson.

The divine French comedy ‘I Do (Prête-Moi Ta Main)’ sees Luis (Alain Chabat) under pressure from his mother and five sisters to marry.

A charming coming-to-America tale of an Italian family at the turn of the last century, fetching up at New York's Ellis Island and facing the ordeal of making it past the barriers to the promised land.

Gael Garcia Bernal plays an insecure artist, Stephane, trying to woo Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg) in ‘The Science of Sleep’ (Warner, €24.99).

Too many images, too much tumbling of visual delights – however much they captivate and astound – mars what is otherwise as fine a film as has come our way in months.

The Cannes Film Festival is back in the hands of comfy old friends with a line-up that includes such familiar filmmakers as Woody Allen, David Cronenberg, Gus Van Sant, Wim Wenders, Lars von Trier and Atom Egoyan.

The title refers to the mass lost by the human body after death, so you know we are into very dark waters with this excellent and thoughtful drama.