"It's always the way. You wait years for a film about burlesque and then two come along at once. The first is Mathieu Amalric's On Tour (Tournée), for which he won the best director prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Amalric is best known internationally for his turn as Bond villain... >>>

Political drama examines the evolution of a scandal and the media's role in US foreign policy. The Valerie Plame affair, as observers of US foreign policy and national security knew since 2003, dealt a blow to the conservative hawks of the Bush administration and its justification of the Iraqi war _ though the White House intrigues and the legal imperatives that followed hardly changed the outcome of that sinful invasion. >>>

An elusively poetic film from Thailand that stunned Cannes. This beautiful, mysterious and playful film by the Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul – winner of this year's Cannes Palme d'Or – is about ghosts, past lives and the fear of death, things that in another sort of movie would be presented as scary or sentimental, but are here accepted as alternative phenomena, existing alongside day-to-day normalities. >>>

A haunting film about a group of monks whose faith is tested in the most terrifying way has become a surprise hit in France. Jasper Rees talks to its writer. >>>