The 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has just ended this Saturday, May 23 during a closing ceremony with very political overtones. The jury chaired by South Korean director Park Chan-wook chose to award the Palme d’Or to the film Fjord by Romanian Cristian Mungiu. The actress Virginie Efira was also rewarded for her interpretation of a nursing home director in Suddenly. When will we be able to see popular films on the Croisette in the cinema?
HuffPost takes stock.
Inspired by true events, the film takes place in Norway where a very pious evangelical couple (Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve) settles with their five children and initially seems to integrate smoothly into a society which proclaims its tolerance and respect for minorities. The situation becomes complicated when the family finds itself subject to a social investigation.
Drama about a Russian bourgeois couple, set against the backdrop of war and the disintegration of society. It tells the story of a successful business leader who lives with his wife and their son in a beautiful home on the edge of the forest. Gleb manages his business while taking care of finding conscripts for the Russian army within his company.
This LGBT plea by the Spaniards Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi for self-acceptance begins during the civil war and moves back and forth with the current era to x-ray gay loves stifled by shame and secrecy.
This film by Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski brings to life the return from exile of the great German writer Thomas Mann in 1949, sixteen years after his departure, in a country fractured between East and West, where he is forced to choose his side.
In this film, which takes the viewer to the eastern borders of Europe, Veska, an archaeologist, returns for excavations where she grew up, in a small town in Bulgaria. She finds Saïd, a childhood friend, and finds herself involved in his smuggling businesses and compromises with the mafia.
The film portrays an official of the Vichy regime who tries to take advantage of the chaos of defeat to restore his image. Director Emmanuel Marre actually tells the story of his great-grandfather Henri Marre (played by Swann Arlaud), author of a book mixing managerial thought and patriotism, which he tried to promote during the Vichy period.
This film is the story of a nursing home director who tries to apply a new method with her residents, based on kindness and listening. She becomes friends with a Japanese director who is suffering from terminal cancer.
This film by Belgian Lukas Dhont tells the story of the hidden passion between two young soldiers, in the chaos of the Belgian battlefields of the Great War.
This first film by Rwandan director Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo addresses the question of the memory of the Tutsi genocide through the courts set up to promote reconciliation within torn communities.
