8 Best Movies We Saw at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival
Vulture • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Cannes 2024 featured a strong queer presence despite fewer Hollywood A-listers, with standout films including Jane Schoenbrun’s "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma" and Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s "La Bola Negra," an ode to Federico García Lorca.
- "Fjord," directed by Cristian Mungiu, stars Sebastian Stan as a conservative evangelical patriarch in a tense drama about a family facing child protective services after moving from Romania to Norway.
- Paweł Pawlikowski’s "Fatherland," a concise 82-minute black-and-white film, explores post-war Germany through the journey of Erika Mann as the country grapples with its Nazi past.
- Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev’s "Minotaur" marks a comeback, blending marital thriller elements with dark comedy set against the backdrop of Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine.
- Jordan Firstman’s "Club Kid," the biggest Cannes sale this year, is a comedic yet heartfelt story about a party promoter who must grow up when unexpectedly tasked with caring for his child.