The Film Comment Letter: Cannes 2024 #3

May 24, 2024 The Film Comment Letter: Cannes 2024 #3 - Going, Going, Gone ⚾ View in browser | filmcomment.com May 24, 2024 WEBSITE | PODCAST | LATEST Dear Readers, We kick off the Cannes Film Festival's closing weekend with a dispatch from Mark Asch, in an elegiac mood, covering the waning days of this year's edition. It's not dark yet! Mark does, however, note a certain chilly wind blowing through the boulevards and allées of Southern France this year, in no small part due to a notable absence of the political activism that has roiled recent festivals. Instead, at Cannes 2024, the political world is projected on screen, in often subtle and subversive fashion, from the Strangelovian fever dream of Guy Maddin and the Johnson brothers' Rumours to Roberto Minervini's reimagining of the American Civil War in The Damned to the low-key (but clear-eyed) nostalgia of Tyler Taormina's Christmas Eve in Miller's Point and Carson Lund... read

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