The films have monopolized festival-goers in their bubble. Let's take a look back at the major trends of this 76th edition.
The film in costumes in majesty
The film in costumes has not always been in the smell of sanctity in Cannes, capital of the avant-garde. In addition to Jeanne du Barry's Versailles wig festival at the opening, the historical film, and the poetic license that accompanies it, triumphs. In The Queen's Game, Karim Aïnouz portrays the Tudor dynasty. Catherine Parr (Alicia Vikander), Henry VIII's sixth wife, tries to save her head and political ideas from Jude Law as a whimsical king, plagued by gangrene. Marco Bellocchio shows Pope Pius IX as a tyrannical and wavering ruler in The Abduction, a blasphemous opera with mitre and kippah. Tran Han Hùng puts the apron in the spotlight in The Passion of Dodin-Bouffant, set in licked images of a menu by Pierre Gagnaire. Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe, by Martin Provost, and Rosalie, by Stéphanie di Giusto, also go back ...
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