Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. It’s not as well-known as the main competition, but I have always loved Cannes Classics and its selection of restorations, revivals, and film documentaries. The genuine discoveries and clever programming are outstanding, but many people find it hard to fit them into the usual crazy Cannes schedule. So, this year I vowed to put together a special Cannes Classics episode. There are far too many worthy titles to cover them all, but I got together with Carlos Valladares and talked about some highlights. Including: The Moon Has Risen, from Japanese filmmaker and actress Kinuyo Tanaka; La Guerre Est Finie, from Alain Resnais; and the much-loved Powell and Pressburger film I Know Where I’m Going. I also talk about the wonderfully odd Friendship’s Death, starring Tilda Swinton in an early role and directed by film theorist Peter Wollen; and also Repentance, a brash Georgian satire from the 1980s about a dictatorial mayor who comes back from the dead, sort of.

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Opening music: “Monserrate” by The Minarets

Photo by Steve Snodgrass