This year's Cannes Film Festival has been an epic mix of ground-breaking women's perspectives and nostalgic homages to icons of the 20th century.
As it heads into awards night on Saturday, the 76th edition of the French Riviera festival has been a feast for film-lovers. Here are some of the highlights.At times, Cannes felt like a sort of dream retirement home populated by ageing male film icons.
It was notable that many of the starriest attendees made their names in the 1980s and 1990s: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, Jude Law. "The entire range of human behaviour should be accessible to women," said Portman, whose new film"May December" is a campy but complex look at a loving mother with a buried past as a sex offender.
In"The Zone of Interest" from British director Jonathan Glazer, she chillingly played the wife of a Nazi camp commandant, proud to be known as"the queen of Auschwitz". Scorsese's Native American epic was widely praised though everyone felt the 210-minute runtime was a bit much.
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