Korean directors and Korean films are always treated with great respect at Cannes, even if they don’t usually get the awards.
Cannes’ youngest master, that remarkable 30-year-old veteran Xavier Dolan, had me utterly romanced with his complex love story Matthias & Maxime.
There were outstanding films by Pedro Almodóvar, Ken Loach and Quentin Tarantino, each of whom delivered thoroughly characteristic work, but deeply satisfying for all that.
Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor, about the Sicilian mafia maxi-trial of the 1980s, is strong but perhaps not always inspired.