![]() But one thing’s for sure: this year’s fest failed to deliver a scandal on a par with the furore surrounding Vincent Gallo’s The Brown Bunny (2003), Lars von Trier’s Hitlergate moment in 2011, or French cops turning their backs to Mathieu Kassovitz when he won best director prize in 1995 for La Haine, his searing indictment of French society’s exclusion of disenfranchised youths from the Paris projects (or cités).Īs Kassovitz’s visceral debut celebrates its 20th anniversary, what’s most striking about this 24-hour window into the lives of three ethnically diverse male protagonists – Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui) and Hubert (Hubert Koundé) – is that the shockingly gritty fable has lost none of its potency. As the dust begins to settle on the French Riviera, film buffs are fighting over whether first-time director László Nemes was robbed of the Palme d’Or for his highly praised Holocaust drama, Son of Saul.
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