Ep. 254: Cannes 2024 Finale: Manohla Dargis on The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Anora, The Apprentice, Marcello Mio, and more

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. It’s become an annual tradition on the last day of Cannes to sit down with Manohla Dargis, the chief film critic for The New York Times, and take stock of the festival, some selected highlights, and other points of interest. For our 2024 chat, in a corner of the Palais starting to buzz with activity before the awards ceremony, we discussed a number of titles including: The Seed of the Sacred Fig (directed by Mohammad Rasoulof), Anora (Sean Baker), The Apprentice (Ali Abbasi), All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia), On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni), Wild Diamond (Agathe Riedinger), Marcello Mio (Christoph Honoré), Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola), and more.

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