Cannes 2025: Halfway through, which films are in the running for the Palme d'Or?
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After a sluggish start to the competition, L'Agent secret, Sound of Falling , and Sirat each have their supporters and detractors. Should we instead look to Nouvelle vague or Die, My Love for the winner? There's no final stage before the final stretch.
Will the Croisette wake up before the end of the week? Halfway through the 78th Cannes Film Festival, it's hard to pinpoint a favorite. Festival-goers haven't yet discovered the favorite that everyone agrees on, like Anora, Anatomy of a Fall , or The Zone of Interest . The weekend, however, promised to be dazzling with promise and stars. Pedro Pascal and Joaquin Phoenix arrived on the steps to present Eddington , the neo-Western satirizing Trump's America. Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, for their part, capsized the red carpet with Lynne Ramsay's horror romance about postpartum depression , Die, My Love! . But critics emerged from these feature films fairly panned and divided.
"Cleverly interweaving community tensions, a stifling pandemic climate, all sprinkled with conspiracy theories and fake news, Eddington quickly loses itself in its own spiral of chaos. Endless and heartbreaking."
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