It was a sprawling, soggy, sexy 12-day extravaganza, and here are the keys

The Palme d'Or race hasn't been this murky in years, but you can probably count out the new Roman Polanski and Jim Jarmusch films

The period drama is either a wrenching masterpiece or a gloomy melodrama, depending on who you ask

Top award in student film competition goes to "Needle";  Jane Campion's jury also chooses shorts from Romania and the Czech Republic

As the rain starts up again, Redford gets a lengthy ovation for J.C. Chandor's wordless lost-at-sea drama

"Drive" director Nicolas Winding Refn indulges in one bloody killing after another, and practically licks the knife afterwards

In competition at the festival, Soderbergh's honest, authentic rendering of the passionate, sometimes silly love affair between Liberace and Scott Thorson is his best film in years

The Japanese cult director refuses to sell out his premise for the sake of audience satisfaction

Before it even had its official Cannes premiere, "Inside Llewyn Davis" became the most acclaimed film at the festival

Asghar Farhadi’s “The Past” is the hot title for now, but elsewhere Cannes embraces excess and exaggeration

The platinum heiress weighs in on Sofia Coppola's movie, while the gritter and weirder likes of "Fruitvale Station" and "The Congress" jockey for attention on the Croisette

Catcalls will put Baz Luhrmann's film in good company -- but the opening-night film is really just the aperitif before the sumptuous meal of cinema (and scandal) that is Cannes