Alex and Orla discuss the Cannes 2021 films they watched from home: a couple of competition titles, and even more interesting sidebar films that flew under the radar. On this episode:

• Announcements (1:11)
• Cannes and COVID (4:54)
• Cannes Winners (9:32)
• The Divide (Catherine Corsini) (19:10)
• Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve) (22:19)
• The films we have not many thoughts on (36:32)
• How Cannes treats documentaries (41:20)
• Murina (Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović) (47:05)
• Olga (Elie Grappe) (50:23)
• A Radiant Girl (Sandrine Kiberlain) (54:53)
• The Innocents (Eskil Vogt) (1:02:58)
• Conclusion (1:11:54)

Episode Notes

• Read Alex's review of Une jeune fille qui va bien (A Radiant Girl)
• Read Alex's 2018 interview with Cannes "breakout" Anders Danielsen Lie
• Read Alex's 2017 interview with Eskil Vogt, on Thelma
• Read Mary Angela Rowe's review of Julia Ducournau’s Raw
• Read Elena Lazic's 2019 interview with Mia Hansen-Løve on Maya
• Read our January article about the thirty films we’re most looking forward to in 2021

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• Ep. 84: Berlinale 2021, Part 2: The Competition
• Ep. 83: Berlinale 2021, Part 1: The Sidebars
• Ep. 82: Genocide on Film: Quo Vadis, Aida and Our Lady of the Nile
• Ep. 79: Sundance 2021, Part 2
• Ep. 78: Sundance 2021, Part 1
• Ep. 75: Portrayals of disability in Sound of Metal and Blind
• Ep. 17: Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale (Member's Only)