Cannes Diary: To watch the competition films means to be subjected to the worst humanity has to offer

the latest from multiple Cannes Jury Prize winner Andrea Arnold.is strewn with graffiti, be it on the walls of slovenly flats or a perennially shirtless Barry Keoghan’s tattooed torso. However, one sticker, plastered in an elevator, stands out: I HATE HUMANS.

In Audiard’s undeniably not boring and extremely trashy film, Zoe Saldaña plays a lawyer hired by a vicious Mexican cartel leader to facilitate their sex-change operation, which is performed by an Israeli doctor. Post-op, the now eponymous Emilia 180s her life to start up an NGO to track down the many disappeared victims of narco-fuelled violence, and repatriates her kids and ex-wife from Switzerland to live alongside her in her casa, claiming to be her own long-lost aunt a la.

: Richard Gere’s Leonard Fife is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, whose oeuvre consists of various hot-button exposés on seal clubbing, child abuse in the Catholic Church and residential schools . Alas, excerpts of these works are fleeting: The bulk of the film is a convoluted confessional reflecting its protagonist’s addled state of mind, and could have benefited from a couple of Coppola’s US$120-million.

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