The Oscars Start at Cannes

Cannes sure isn’t the Oscars. It’s always been more niche, more art house, more, well, French. For decades, films that won the Palme d’Or, the highest prize at Cannes, were celebrated by auteur-worshipping film geeks and ignored by the mass market. But that’s changing (more on that below).

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