Vanessa Paradis stars as Anne, the booze-swilling, heartbroken leader of the pack. Think of it as a foolproof way to give fading festivalgoers one last lift, to let them barrel to the close on a burst of perverse energy.Īt the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, the honor went to Yann Gonzalez’s “Knife + Heart,” a lascivious giallo about a tight-knit clan of gay pornographers and the rubber-masked assassin out to kill them, set in the seediest corners of Paris in the late ’70s (the film is now hitting U.S. Every year, Cannes tends to run a spiky provocation towards the end of its 12-day run.
