Cannes 2024 Recap Part One: India’s Complicated Victories & Japan Comes Out Of Its Shell

This year’s Cannes film festival was relatively smooth and controversy free, despite all the speculation in the run-up to the event around France’s #MeToo movement, pro-Palestinian protests and striking film festival workers. Cate Blanchett may or may not have made a classy display of Palestinian solidarity with her dress on the red carpet, and the work…