This year, Cannes critics were largely united in their belief that Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Fatherland were the best films in the competition. Both films won major prizes,
Before Thursday’s announcement of the 79th official programme, Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux had warned that Hollywood studios no longer want to send their tentpole films to the festival. Essentially,
“To me, it’s what we call in the trans community, an ‘egg crack’ movie,” says writer-director Jane Schoenbrun, talking about their beguiling new sci-fi/horror I Saw the TV Glow. Schoenbrun,
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It is beautiful, it is terrifying, it is reassuring, it is uncompromising, it is transcendent, it is cringe; it simply is.