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One of the festival’s breakout hits is Aftersun, from first-time director Charlotte Wells and starring Normal People heartthrob Paul Mescal.

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How to watch it: Focus Features will open Armageddon Time in the US later this year.Īftersun Frankie Coreo and Paul Mescal in Aftersun. It’s a truly poignant, troubling, and ultimately brilliant work of memory and self-implication. Meanwhile, Paul is caught between his left-leaning family and the children at his new school who casually drop racial slurs, or pump fists and chant “Reagan! Reagan!” at the mention of an upcoming election. Paul’s family is navigating the gluey border between being the target of anti-Semitism and enjoying the opportunities and social standing that their Black neighbors will never have. A jolt of a cameo with political implications appears midway through - I don’t want to ruin it - but the film’s broader aim is to excavate the layers of privilege that the protagonist, whose ancestors fled the Holocaust, is slowly coming to realize. James Gray’s Armageddon Time is a semi-autofictional story of a sixth-grader named Paul (Banks Repeta) growing up in Queens in the 1980s who, after some trouble in his public school, ends up at a private academy at the behest of his grandfather (Anthony Hopkins). The complicated tension of telling the truth at Cannes Armageddon Time Anthony Hopkins and Banks Repeta in Armageddon Time. But here are the 15 best movies I saw at Cannes this year, why you should keep tabs on them, and how you can see them soon. Some of them are big and buzzy - like Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick - and you’ll see them soon enough.

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It’s impossible to see every movie at Cannes, but I did my best.

And after two weird years - one canceled entirely because of the pandemic, one shifted to July and lightly attended - the festival was back in full force. Filmmakers from around the globe tell harrowing, moving, and spectacular stories on the big screens over the two-week span, and the whole world shows up to watch, boo, cheer, argue, walk red carpets, and drink a lot of rosé. That includes movies like recent Oscar nominees Parasite, BlacKkKlansman, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Drive My Car, and The Worst Person in the World.īut there’s more to Cannes than awards chatter. When it comes to setting the pace for the year in cinema, the Cannes Film Festival occupies a coveted early-summer spot, often launching films toward awards-season stardom.