Gracefully finding love in the most hopeless of places — the desolate battlefields of the First World War — the Belgian director's third feature finds fertile new ground for his interest in imperiled ...

Newcomer Emmanuel Macchia stars in wartime romance film Director Lukas Dhont wanted to look at soldiers' softer side 'Coward' one of 22 film competing for Cannes' top prize CANNES, France, May 21 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mubi has scooped up North American rights to Lukas Dhont’s “Coward” at the Cannes Film Festival, landing one of the buzzier titles ...

“For me, the reason to make a film about the past is to say something about the present,” filmmaker Lukas Dhont said this morning during the press conference for his Cannes Competition title Coward.

Lukas Dhont knows that, as far as titles go, Coward sounds a bit loaded. But the Belgian filmmaker, whose previous feature Close won the Grand Prix at Cannes and was nominated for the international ...

Transporting audiences to the trenches of World War I, Lukas Dhont’s “Coward” is a tender tale of love and what it means to be brave. When eager rookie Pierre (Emmanuel Macchia) arrives on the front ...

With the Cannes Film Festival's red carpet carpet still almost a week away from being laid, Mubi has swooped on another film set to compete for the Palme d'Or. The arthouse distributor and production ...

The film, for all its faults, subverts hyper-masculine war tropes to focus on intimacy, queer desire and art as a tool of survival. Courtesy MUBI/AlineBoyen_theReunion Macchia plays Belgian youth ...

Even the manifold mudbaths and bloodbaths of the Western Front can't do much to dirty up Lukas Dhont's exactingly exquisite filmmaking in "Coward," the young Belgian director's third feature, and his ...