The 2024 Palme d’Or is hours away. And it's all up for grabs - with 'Anora', 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig' and 'Emilia Pérez' emerging as likely contenders for Cannes' top gong. Before the winners though, time to look at this year’s festival in music.
.. A well-timed needle drop can elevate a scene, complement the film’s themes, or even comment on character arcs.
And there’s been no shortage of them at this year’s . We’ve compiled the ideal Cannes playlist for you - 10 earworms that have burrowed themselves into our ears for the duration of this year’s 77th edition. NB: We’re excluding the whole damn thing in , as it’s an original musical; and Vesta Sweetwater’s Taylor Swift-aping number ‘My Vow’ in , because writing any more about Coppola’s coked-up folly will likely provoke a haemorrhage.
For the press screening of Yórgos Lánthimos’ new film, the audience in the Debussy theatre was clapping along for the opening song – a euphoric moment that showed quite how excited everyone was to watch what the master of Greek Weird Wave had in store for us after last year’s . The Eurythmics hit reflects exactly what is: Lánthimos’ bizarre dreamscape as a warped Twilight Zone-style anthology. Except they’re not sweet, not particularly kind, but memorably cruel – making this opening number the film’s first bleak gag.
And there were plenty more...
This whole list could just feature the soundtrack from . Hardly surprising, since director Andrea A.
