If you cover the Cannes film festival long enough, you grow accustomed to its manifold contradictions. Every Cannes film festival, it seems, follows its own distinct rhythm. No other film at Cannes inspired such wild devotion; few repaid our attention with this level of ardour. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Career high: Antonio Banderas at Cannes for Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory. Rocked by expressionistic black-and-white imagery, pitching towards madness, Robert Eggers’s film was Cannes’s copper-bottomed classic from far out of left-field.

Source: The Guardian May 25, 2019 13:52 UTC