All the news, reviews, comment and buzz from the Croisette on day five of the Cannes flick festival

3.52pm: Hello everyone.

Today's live blog is back with me after Catherine and Henry's sterling work - and again, it'll be on the truncated side unfortunately.

Weekend working hours, sad to say.

Be that as it may, Cannes 2012 has been going off like a rocket all day, and in Peter's eyes at least, we have the first solid Palm d'Or contender, in Michael Haneke's Amour, which screened this morning.

Here's Peter's five star review.

And here's some more reactions on the thing called Twitter:

Haneke's AMOUR is as tender, beautiful and uncompromising as you've heard.

Here's @AskDebruge's #Cannes review: bit.ly/KnPol7

— Justin Chang (@JustinCChang) May 20, 2012

Michael Haneke's AMOUR has been the best flick in competition so far.

Tender, compassionate and desperately sad.

Chapeaux #cannes

— Charlotte Higgins (@chiggi) May 20, 2012

The five stars are out for Michael Haneke's AMOUR.

Also my waterproof mascara.

— Kate Muir (@muirkate) May 20, 2012

Michael Haneke's Amour the best flick at Cannes so far; a Cries & Whispers for the Dignitas generation.

Rigorous, unsparing, superbly played

— Xan Brooks (@XanBrooks) May 20, 2012

4.07pm: Just to catch up, here's some of the goodies that have come your way over the last 12 hours, but you might have missed.

The latest edition of the Guardian Film Show, direct from the Croisette.

Lawless, it seems, gets bit of a kicking (except for its nice cardigans).

Last night's red carpet gallery: Lawless and The Sapphires were the big flicks with scarlet underfoot.

Jason Solomons has turned in the Cannes edition of his regular Trailer Trash column for the Observer.

Plus here's Jason's thoughts on the line-up so far.

Vanessa Thorpe has a look at the no-women-directors-in-Cannes issue, again for the Observer. 4.57pm: Couple more reviews now online: the competition is heating up, that's for sure.

Both Beyond the Hills and The Hunt (Jagten) get four stars from Peter; both directors – Cristian Mungiu and Thomas Vinterberg – have been a bit absent for different reasons, so it's good to see them back on such good form. 5.12pm: This afternoon also saw the press screening of the Pete Doherty flick Confession of a Child of the Century.

Not looking too good, if we're being honest.

(I mean the film, not Doherty.)

pouring with rain #cannes2012 and the clunker of the festival is Confession a Child of this Century

— CineVue (@CineVue) May 20, 2012

Wonder if CONFESSION OF A CHILD OF THE CENTURY w.

Pete Doherty will get boos in Cannes?Someone let me know - was so bad, I had to walk out.

— Georgie (@GeorgieMHobbs) May 20, 2012

Oh dear. 5.15pm: Tonight, the press are getting the first look at Abbas Kiarostami's new film, Like Someone in Love.

(The official premiere isn't till tomorrow.)

So to get everyone in the mood, here's the rather lovely trailer. 5.21pm: Have a look at this.

Blimey. 6.04pm: More of that vision of male loveliness, Pete Doherty, in the day five picture gallery, just posted.

Plus Charlotte Higgin's report on the enthusiastic reception for Thomas Vinterberg's new film, and a return to the fold for the prodigal son. 6.15pm: That's about it from me for today; tomorrow we'll be back to business as usual, with a look at You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet by nouvelle vague veteran Alain Resnais.

See you then.

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