The 2026 Cannes Film Festival takes place from May 12 through May 24, with Ebert providing review and video coverage of major films. A return to Cannes after three decades brings a sense of unusual atmosphere, with Hollywood largely absent and some films finding it difficult to gain momentum. Some titles that audiences hold onto may not play as well after the festival ends. One film featuring Adèle Exarchopoulos is described as lovely yet potentially forgettable, centered on a lesbian romance with a twist involving alcoholism. The story blends medical, social, and relationship drama, relying on Exarchopoulos’s charisma and believable portrayal of anxiety, warmth, and struggle.
"It's amazing to be back here at the Cannes Film Festival. The first time I was here was in 1996. So it's technically been 30 years since my first attendance, and I've never been to a weirder-feeling festival. It's one thing that Hollywood hasn't really shown up this year, but even the films themselves, some of them have sort of struggled to gain momentum, and I have a feeling that a lot of the films that people are really holding onto tightly aren't ones that are going to play super well once the festival actually ends."
"One of the films is actually quite lovely, but maybe a little bit forgettable, starring Adèle Exarchopoulos. She's actually a Palme d'Or winner because she and her co-star, Léa Seydoux, won the award for Best Actress for "Blue Is the Warmest Color." This is another lesbian romance with Adèle Exarchopoulos. She's done this several times in the past, but this one has a little bit of a twist that she is an alcoholic, and it's her struggling through her alcoholism as a young girl, coming up, going to parties, doing all the stuff in queer clubs and stuff like that."
"As she finds herself and finds her sort of community, but realizes that one way of getting over her anxiety is to actually consume too much alcohol. So it's a medical drama. It's a social drama. It's a relationship drama. It's very French, and none of it would work at all, except that Adele is so fantastically charismatic on screen, and you really find her own struggles, as well as the warmth of her character, believable. It's as simple as that. So the documentary-like elemen"
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