Cannes 2024 #9, with Justin Chang and Dennis Lim

Published: May 24, 2024, 11:14 p.m.

Cannes 2024 is in wrapping up this weekend\u2014and our intrepid on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment\xa0contributors has been high-tailing it from screening to screening, cutting through the noise with a series of thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and podcasts.\n\nFor our (nearly) final episode from the sunny shores of Southern France, Dennis Lim, Artistic Director of the New York Film Festival, and Justin Chang, film critic for The New Yorker, join Film Comment Editor Devika Girish to discuss some late-festival selections and highlights, including\xa0Mohammed Rasoulof\u2019s The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2:50),\xa0Truong Minh Qu\xfd\u2019s Viet and Nam (14:20), and Payal Kapadia\u2019s All We Imagine as Light (21:10), before debating what the Cannes 2024 lineup says about the current state of cinema.\n\nSubscribe today to the Film Comment Letter for a steady stream of Cannes coverage, providing everything you need to know about the 2024 edition: www.filmcomment.com/newsletter-sign-up/