Wrapping Cannes, 6/1.

"Marie Antoinette was, following the unqualified disaster of Richard Kelly's Southland Tales, the one movie in this year's Cannes competition that felt authentically hip and young and the product of a dazzling pop sensibility," writes Scott Foundas in the LA Weekly. "If there were many good movies in Cannes this year, and perhaps even a couple of great ones, Colossal Youth is the only one I would venture to call heroic.... Still, in its discussion of the seeds of terrorism, of centrism at odds with extremism, and of political interests placed ahead of human ones, it was The Wind That Shakes the Barley that had more to say about the world of today than any other film screening in Cannes."

Eugene Hernandez puts in another good word for Marie Antoinette.

Salon launches a new podcast, Conversations, with the talks Andrew O'Hehir had in Cannes with John Cameron Mitchell and Richard Linklater. Meanwhile, in old-fashioned pixelized text, Hehir has "two parting shots before I sober up and move on, and then it's not a peep about Cannes for the next 11 months, I promise."

John Powers has a recap on NPR.

Posted by dwhudson at June 1, 2006 12:44 PM