No clear favourite as Cannes race nears home stretch
The 76th Cannes Film Festival is in its second week but rather unusually has yet to throw up a clear frontrunner or two for the Palme d'Or, the top prize at the prestigious gala.
One of the two Competition entries that have generated some buzz is by a woman director -- "Anatomy of a Fall", a French film. Could its maker, Justine Triet, do a repeat of Julia Ducournau's 2021 "Titane" act and become only the third woman in history to win the coveted trophy? The film that is most likely to stand in her way is Jonathan Glazer's German-language Nazi-era drama "The Zone of Interest", the British director's first narrative feature in a decade.
Incidentally, German actor Sandra Huller, the star of the 2016 Cannes hit "Toni Erdmann", features in both "Anatomy of a Fall" and "The Zone of Interest".
