An early festival favorite strikes a chord with audiences of all shapes and sizes. The same day, a major competition title gets almost universally booed by an audience several hundred strong. By nightfall, stars gather on the beach to the tune of ’60s counterculture, many wearing flowers in their hair.
Now this is the Cannes Film Festival!
After breaking through the first few days of uncertainty, Cannes appears to be gaining momentum. "A Prophet," Jacques Audiard’s two-and-a-half hour opus about a Muslim teenager unfairly jailed in France, received a warm welcome from seemingly everyone at its early morning press screening.