Cannes 2017 Roundtable #1

Published: May 23, 2017, 8:58 p.m.

b"The dark of the theater and the sunny seafront come together but once a year at the Cannes Film Festival, and in this week's episode of the Film Comment Podcast, the critics weigh in live from the south of France on the slate's standouts, surprises, and offenses so far. Film Comment Editor Nicolas Rapold chats with a roundtable\\u2014namely Jordan Cronk, co-founder of the Locarno in Los Angeles Film Festival; Nicholas Elliott, New York correspondent for Cahiers du Cin\\xe9ma and contributing film editor for BOMB; and FC Contributing Editors Jonathan Romney and Amy Taubin\\u2014about the first week of screenings, including Claire Denis's Un beau soleil int\\xe9rieur, Agn\\xe8s Varda and JR's Visages Villages, Bong Joon-ho's Okja, Ruben \\xd6stlund's The Square, and Michael Haneke's Happy End."