The Film Comment Letter: Cannes 2024 #1 - Empire States of Mind 🏛️

May 17, 2024 The Film Comment Letter: Cannes 2024 #1 - Empire States of Mind 🏛️ View in browser   |   filmcomment.com May 17, 2024 WEBSITE   |   PODCAST   |   LATEST Dear Readers,  Cannes 2024 has arrived, at long last. And while news of standing ovations and walkouts, throwaway raves and pans, spit takes and hot takes flood the feed, you can count on our on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors to cut through the noise with thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and podcasts. As has become tradition here at FC , we open the proceedings with the insights of Cannes veteran Jonathan Romney, whose dispatch notes the pointed attempts by the festival team to remove, or at least minimize, any trace of controversy or conflict from this year's edition. Jonathan also digs into Quentin Dupieux's opening-night meta-comedy The Second Act , the powerful Un Certain Regard–launcher When the Light Breaks , and, looming skyscraper-like above the fray, Francis Ford Coppola... read