10 standout films from this year's CannesFilmFestival
, a fascinating, fractured period drama. She plays Empress Elisabeth of Austria, a woman who, bored of the austere framework of royal society, goes off-piste and meets new men, fraternizes with the city’s poor and destitute, and generally brings shame upon her uptight family. It has parallels with modern stories, most notably that of Diana Spencer, and its production design is both historically ornate and, on occasion, inexplicably contemporary.
It’s so gruesome—think C-sections, eye surgery, spine-straightening procedures—that audience members ran for the door during its premiere, but it also functions as a captivating film about the violence our body inflicts upon itself and the people we enlist to save it.and—was a blunt and scathing dissection of the Insta-influencer and the upper classes, directed by Swedish provocateur Ruben Östlund.
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