After the Cannes cancellation of 2020 and the delay of 2021, the 2022 Official Selection reflects a return to normal: a balance of class (potential for high quality) and crass (potentially strong financial afterlife).
Last year was another story: Cannes produced an excellent lineup that American audiences largely ignored.Much of that came down to timing.
Covid postponed last year’s Cannes to July 2021 and, after Cannes being canceled altogether in 2020, there was a backlog of excellent titles waiting for their moment on the Croisette.
However, studio films were all but absent; their distributors didn’t have much interest in spending to promote their titles in July.Led by “Drive My Car,” the films of Cannes 2021 showed unprecedented dominance in year-end critics’ surveys, including four of the top six in the IndieWire critics’ poll, four of the top five from Sight and Sound, and six of the top 10 at Cahiers du Cinema.Despite the films’ elevated pedigrees,
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