Cannes Critic’s Take: A Cronenberg and Coppola Rematch?

Writing in this space in 2015, TheWrap’s Alonso Duralde likened the Cannes Film Festival to the anti-Comic-Con: a kind of One For Them/One For Me point of exchange where promising stars could cash in franchise loyalty for a shot at prestige. Our critic was spot-on then and all the more prescient now: How else could one describe a 77th edition that might turn a superhero soldier into an awards darling on the strength of a certain hot-button political biopic?

How else, of course, but a thousand other ways? Because Cannes never holds a single form. To crib from a recent best picture, the festival is everything everywhere all at once.