This year, the Cannes Film Festival kicked off with a restoration of Jean Eustache’s 1973 ménage à trois scandal “The Mother and the Whore” and concluded with a screening of controversial Palme d’O…
a Dardenne movie about two Ghanian refugees living in Belgium who pose as siblings in order to help 16-year-old Lokita get her papers. The authorities aren’t buying it, which forces the kids to find their own patch to the problem by working for a local drug dealer. At first, they just make deliveries, but the boss exploits his power and pressures Lokita into various degrading sexual situations as well.
As exercises in empathy, these films touch deep chords, though none seems to have resonated more with audiences than Lukas Dhont’sDhont’s film centers on the close-as-brothers friendship between two 13-year-old Belgian boys, evocatively conveyed via inseparable adventures and sleepovers in the film’s first half. Then an innocuous question at school introduces the notion of homophobia to their seemingly pure friendship, and the two start to take their distance, with tragic consequences.
Which brings me to the competition film that caught me most by surprise. It’s been more than a quarter-century since prolific Italian director Mario Martone had a film in competition at Cannes , so expectations were rock bottom for this nuanced redemption drama, infinitely better than the sentimental title implied . Yet another look at a lifelong bond between boys, this one carries with it an uncommon maturity, as Martone takes his time to reveal what the movie is really about.
After seeming to lose his way in recent years, David Cronenberg makes a comeback to the squirm-inducing body horror that defined his early career withcasting Viggo Mortensen as a performance artist who keeps producing mutant organs, which partner Léa Seydoux tattoos and then surgically removes in underground shows.
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