The long-running row between the Cannes film festival and Netflix has taken an unexpected turn as the Directors’ Fortnight, one of the key strands of the festival that runs in parallel to the official selection, has selected a Netflix film for its lineup.
Based on The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud, Wounds premiered at the Sundance film festival and stars Armie Hammer and Dakota Johnson.
Although running simultaneously with the official film festival, whose selection this year includes films by heavyweights such as Terrence Malick and Ken Loach, the Directors’ Fortnight has been run independently by the French Directors Guild since 1969, and has its own selection policy.
This is in marked contrast to the official festival, which has maintained its exclusion of films distributed by the streaming giant for the second year in a row.