CANNES — The Cannes Film Festival opened with words of each exuberance and reverence, because the festival returned to form while keeping its political viewpoint.
“I desired to talk in regards to the unique aspect of cinema and that's that we're all watching together. We're sitting in a single room together, and watching one content,” said jury president Ruben Östlund in his opening remarks. The Swedish director recalled gathering around a TV screen together with his parents as a baby, and joked that the one TV show any nation — or any family — still watches together is the Eurovision Song Contest. “All we're doing is scrolling and alone in our rooms.”
Östlund said constant scrolling is causing people to desert critical...
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