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Cannes 2024: Sean Baker's Anora wins Palme d'Or
The director of "The Florida Project" and "Red Rocket" won the festival's top prize for his film about a Brighton Beach sex worker.
Ben Kenigsberg is a frequent contributor to The New York Times. He edited the film section of Time Out Chicago from 2011 to 2013 and served as a staff critic for the magazine beginning in 2006. Prior to that, he was a mainstay in the film pages of The Village Voice. He has also written for Variety, Slate, The A.V. Club, and Vulture, among other publications.
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The director of "The Florida Project" and "Red Rocket" won the festival's top prize for his film about a Brighton Beach sex worker.
The director Mohammad Rasoulof attended Cannes after a dramatic escape from Iran, and with a showstopper of a film.
Portugal's Miguel Gomes, Brazil's Karim Aïnouz, and France's Gilles Lellouche deliver some of the odder offerings of the competition.
The competition runs into a bit of a rut with new films by Christophe Honoré and Paolo Sorrentino.
Set around New Year's, Sean Baker's Anora plays like a crypto-sequel to his Christmas story Tangerine.
"The Apprentice" depicts the friendship between Donald Trump and Roy Cohn, while in "The Shrouds," David Cronenberg reflects on old obsessions.
"The Substance," a body-horror film starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, hit Cannes at just the right time.
Jacques Audiard is one of the last directors you'd expect to make an original musical starring Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez.
Anyone who sees "Kind of Kindness" expecting "Poor Things 2" is in for a nasty shock.
Francis Ford Coppola's ridiculously long-in-the-making opus is unwieldy but hardly unwatchable.