Cannes Sunset

Cahal Milmo in The Independent provides a thorough look at the career of this year's Palme d'Or winner Ken Loach.

J. Hoberman from The Village Voice gives an overview of what exactly went on during cinema's brief days on the Riviera. Was Babel really the "quintessential film" of the festival?

The LA Times via Kenneth Turan looks at the slighted, the neglected, and what could have been in Cannes. Did the jury miss the sensual, the visually poetic, the politically taboo? Or the magical fantasy with an impeccable sense of atmosphere and mood within a world of strange and wonderous creatures?

Matt Dentler at indieWIRE puts the fork in it and gives his own take on it all as well as his top 7.

While, Mike D'Angelo makes it political and then tries to reconcile The Pianist as a David Lynch kind of movie and The Wind that Shakes the Barley as a Wong Kar-wai type of flick.

I have a suspicion Anne Thompson was right when she surmised that the jury locked over the choice of Volver vs. Babel and went for the consensus pick.

The ScreenGrab @ Nerve provides the last word on the importance of Cannes for American cinema.

Kenneth Turan puts it all in perspective when he quotes a line Godard uttered in Wim Wenders' Room 666: "The Hollywood dream is to make one single film and show it everywhere in the world." Cannes makes sure that won't ever happen.