Cannes, 5/25. Late-ish edition.

"Lucía Puenzo's XXY will take home the grand prize for the Festival de Cannes' Critics Week sidebar." The Hollywood Reporter's Rebecca Leffler has the story. Also: "Anton Corbijn's Control was the big winner as the Festival de Cannes's Director's Fortnight wrapped its 10-day run Friday, taking three awards on the same day the Weinstein Co. acquired North American rights to the film."

Ignoring the obvious hits on the one hand and the films that might really be better off slipping into obscurity on the other, Salon's Andrew O'Hehir selects ten potential "art-house surprises: challenging and adventurous films likely to appeal to a small but serious audience of cinema buffs all over the world."

"[T]he festival this year delivered such consistently strong and exciting films that its 60th anniversary can be tagged one of the very best in recent memory," writes Time Out's Dave Calhoun, reviewing the many highs and the handful of lows. "The only regret is that no out-and-out, undoubted masterpiece emerged."

Online listening tip. Cinematical editor James Rocchi and SXSW producer Matt Dentler talk Cannes.

Posted by dwhudson at May 25, 2007 2:20 PM