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The 12 Best Movies We Saw at Cannes This Year
A Brighton Beach stripper saga, an absurdist Canadian satire, a body horror fable, and all the movies we’ll be yelling about in the months to come.
The second feature from Zambian Welsh filmmaker Rungano Nyoni, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is completely singular, a surrealistic, pitch-dark comedy about family secrets and the way people close ranks and cover things up to protect one another but ultimately end up perpetuating serious harm. French writer-director Coralie Fargeat’s second film after the 2017 thriller Revenge, this explicit body-horror fable follows Demi Moore as a Jane Fonda–esque star named Elisabeth Sparkle who is being unceremoniously fired from her decadeslong position as the host of a successful daytime exercise show. Against the film’s mesmerizingly understated drama — Zhao’s wordless performance is one of the more moving turns I’ve seen in recent years — Jia shows, through period documentary footage shot by his crews over this time, the way the country’s relationship to the West has changed.
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