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Cannes 2024: 10 of the festival’s best films, from Palme d’Or winner Anora to Nicolas Cage’s The Surfer to Emilia Pérez with Selena Gomez

Here, then, is a guide to the 10 best films that were unveiled at this year’s festival. 1. Anora Mikey Madison in a still from Anora. Mikey Madison is terrific …

Erotic dancer comedy-drama Anora wins Palme d’Or at Cannes

by Walter Watson

Anora, a raw, highly explicit and often hilarious story about a New York erotic dancer, was crowned with the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. It confirmed …

Mohammad Rasoulof Earns Cannes Standing Ovation for Seed of Sacred Fig

by Kwame Phillips

“The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” Mohammad Rasoulof‘s latest film that he received an eight-year prison sentence from Iranian authorities for making, earned a rapturous 12-minute standing ovation at its …