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BRIAN VINER's Cannes round-up: Triumphant debutants - and a turkey or two
The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has had its usual share of happy surprises and crushing disappointments.
Lynne Ramsay's film stars Jennifer Lawrence as Grace, a young mother whose post-partum depression puts her marriage to the feckless Jackson ( Robert Pattinson) under intolerable strain. Several of the gems from the festival were also directorial debuts, including with Charlie Polinger's The Plague (five stars), set at a boys' water-polo camp (pictured) An even more high-profile debut director was Scarlett Johansson, whose drama Eleanor The Great (three stars), about an elderly Jewish woman (June Squibb) pretending to be a Holocaust survivor, is flawed but sweet.
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