Justin Chang
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Paper Tiger deserved a prize, but it left the festival empty-handed.
Instead, the jury awarded The Palm Door to the gripping and sometimes infuriating small-town drama Fjord.
It's the second palm win for the Romanian filmmaker, Cristian Mungiu.
He won his first in 2007 for the movie Four Months, Three Weeks, and Two Days.
In Fjord, Sebastian Stan and Renata Reinsveig are almost unrecognizable as an evangelical Christian couple who have recently moved from Romania to a small Norwegian town with their five children.
In this scene, they sing a hymn with their church friends.
When the couple are accused of child abuse, Fjord becomes a fierce battle between the forces of religious conservatism and secular liberalism.
It may be set in Norway, but it's likely to resonate with American audiences when it opens later this year.
I hope there will also be robust turnout for Minotaur, a perfectly chilled tale of adultery and murder that won the Grand Prix, or second place.
It's a remake of the 1969 Claude Chabrol drama La Femme Infidèle, this time set in Russia not long after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
The director of Minotaur, Andrei Zvyagintsev, nearly died of COVID during the pandemic.
and it was moving to see him back in Cannes with a film this powerful and uncompromising in its critique of the Putin regime.
One of the buzziest out-of-competition titles was Club Kid, a hugely enjoyable comedy directed by the actor, writer, comedian, and social media star Jordan Firstman.
He plays a gay New York City club promoter who's sent reeling when he learns that he has a 10-year-old son.
The result is basically a ketamine-laced version of every adult bonds-with-cute-kid movie you've ever seen.
But Firstman is a real talent.
He's also one of several queer filmmakers who made a bold impression at the festival this year.
Jane Schoenbrunn, the director of the inventive transgender allegory I Saw the TV Glow, came to Cannes with their third feature, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.
Starring a very game Hannah Einbinder and Julian Anderson, the movie is a clever homage to, and deconstruction of, 80s and 90s slasher thrillers, digging deep into the often unspoken connections between our love of pop culture and our hang-ups about sex and desire.
Along with Paper Tiger, Club Kid and Camp Miasma were welcome reminders that American cinema isn't close to dead at Cannes or anywhere else.
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