The 79th Cannes Film Festival concluded in southern France with jury president Park Chan-wook presenting the top prize to Cristian Mungiu’s Romanian film “Fjord.” A major disappointment involved Asghar Farhadi’s French film “Parallel Tales,” described as a silly, soapy story that felt out of step with his reputation for delicately crafted domestic dramas. Among the highlights, Jane Schoenbrun’s “Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma” launched the Un Certain Regard sidebar program. The film combined a slasher-movie riff with a focus on grappling with sexuality and learning to enjoy one’s body.
"The most shocking disappointment was the great Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi made this film called "Parallel Tales." It's a French film. You know, it stars Isabelle Huppert and Virginie Efira, who is in another film here, Vincent Cassel. And it just felt like this kind of silly, soapy movie about these two apartments across the street from each other in Paris, coming from this filmmaker who has made, I think, some of the great films of this millennium, these, like, incredibly delicately made, incisive, domestic dramas. To watch him make this movie that I found really silly was just pretty crushing."
"Well, not to immediately then go and take refuge in an American film (laughter), but I will say, one of my early favorites was a film from Jane Schoenbrun that kicked off the sidebar program called Un Certain Regard. They made a movie called "Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma" that was both a riff on slasher movies, but also a movie about kind of grappling with your own sexuality and ability to enjoy, you know, your body."
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