Cannes 2022, remote notes

[Chris Knipp]

CANNES, MAY 18.



SCARLET/L'ENVOI (Pietro Marcello)
From the director of MARTIN EDEN, which I reviewed in the 2019 NYFF and which had lasting US arthouse success, comes the story of a "daydream believer" who "makes her own magic" in a "lovely French romance," is a "slight but satisfying choice" to open Directors' Fortnight, says Variety's critic. The Playlist critic says it's "a lukewarm exercise in magic realism." Deadline's reviewer says it's "a film of many parts" that "may not always fit together perfectly" bit each "is admirable and enjoyable in its own way." One thing is clear: the director, whose 15th film this is, has switched from Italian this time to French and a French setting. He has also enlisted some well known French actors, including Yvonne Moreau, Naomi Lvovsky, and Louis Garrel.