“So you have this big commercial presence here on the Croisette. He tells me that Cannes is unique in the way it’s able to balance both sides of the industry: the multiplex and the arthouse, the large with the small. This year’s jury president is the Swedish director Ruben Östlund, a two-time Palme d’Or winner for 2017’s The Square and 2022’s Triangle of Sadness. Dancing in the shadow of Brokeback Mountain, this casts Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal as ill-starred lovers in the one-horse town of Bitter Creek. Those on a stopwatch are better served by Pedro Almodóvar’s Strange Way of Life, a 30-minute queer western. Those with a spare four hours on their hands can immerse themselves in Steve McQueen’s Occupied City, a monumental, cross-cutting portrait of Amsterdam which shows the ghosts of the war years still haunting the canalside streets and picnic spots of today. The schedule seems at pains to cater to every taste, every time frame. Johnny Depp and Maïwenn, who also directs Jeanne du Barry.
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