Cannes So Far: Filmmakers Go Mega in a Muted Festival

There’s a trend at the Cannes Film Festival this year.

Many of the directors who’ve showcased their movies in the competition lineup have gone big, gone wild and, to borrow a prefix from Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis,” gone mega.

Many of them are films that were made during the pandemic, when production was difficult. And in many cases, the films that were conceived or made during COVID are films that people were particularly passionate about.

Perhaps it’s to be expected. When nobody knows what the movie business is going to be like in five minutes, much less five years, why not take risks? There’s not much point in playing it safe when you can’t even figure out what safe is anymore.

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