The Cannes lineup features films that deal intelligently with themes like identity, unconventional parenting, and social crises. The Cannes Film Festival is the most prestigious, exclusive, and ostensibly glamorous film festival—one that is paradoxically known for its very vocal audiences think: jeers, boos, and heckling. This year, the jury is composed of five women and four men. In fact, the festival has been criticized for its past discriminatory practices, from a lack of female representation to the strict high heels policy for women on the red carpet. This tells us that despite increasing visibility and representation of women, we still need to be wary—some progress is not the same as fundamental systemic change.
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Slut, The: Hagar Ben-Asher's Israeli Film at Cannes Critics Week | Emanuel Levy
Notoriety of its title and content will attract some attention on the festival circuit and no doubt in Israel, but audiences will have that empty feeling afterwards. When an old acquaintance, Shai Ishai Golan , a low-key, friendly veterinarian, returns to the area, Tamar sees no reason not to add him to her harem. But Shai offers her more than the others, providing her with some genuine human warmth, perhaps even love, and developing a good relationship with her two young daughters, whose father, or fathers, are never mentioned. After Tamar becomes pregnant, however, she goes into a funk, with eventual results that are both disturbing and perplexing. Searching in vain for any allegorical underpinnings, one is left only with a strange psychological case that is as unexpected as it is unedifying.
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Meet single-mother Tamar, aged While her two daughters sleep, she slips away to meet one of her many lovers, an insatiable woman who stirs up deep questions about human sexuality. It is being screened in the Critics' Week section of the festival, a closely followed showcase for budding auteurs.