Time travel provides the mobsters of 2072 with a handy way of keeping their hands clean when they need someone killed — they just send them back to 2042, where a Looper (15A) like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) will do the dirty work and dispose of the body.

Leos Carax’s dreamlike drama sharply divided critics at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and UK audiences should react with similar passion or disdain to the French writer-director’s surreal vision.

Kylie Minogue tonight revealed she had to learn to “stop being Kylie” for her new film role.

Don O’Mahony looks at the main contenders for the big prizes at this year’s Cannes Film Festival

Pop star Kylie Minogue said she “stripped herself of being Kylie” for her role in a new sci-fi fantasy alongside Eva Mendes.