Cate Blanchett picture taken May 17, 2015 in Cannes – Lionel CIRONNEAU / AP / SIPA
* Stéphane Leblanc

within hours of the charts, it’s time to draw a first assessment of this 2005 edition of the Cannes Film Festival.

Some films on top and others who do flop

What are the favorite movies for the prize? Youth is the film that has the best chance of winning. The virtuoso fresco by Paolo Sorrentino ahead Carol , lesbian melodrama carried by a remarkable Cate Blanchett and Madre Mia , for the quality of the story and emotion that emerges from the film Nanni Moretti

The ten films that would see the charts

outsiders. The Son of Saul for staging daring Nazi death camps by the Hungarian Laszlo Nemes, which is the first feature film. And Assassin , the Taiwanese Hou Hsiao-hsien, for its aesthetic flashes and extreme sophistication of its female saber fights …

The French selection has alternated good ( The law of the market, Dheepan ) and less good. Four films of the competition received a frankly stormy Home The Forest of Dreams Gus Van Sant, Tale of Tales Matteo Garrone Marguerite & amp; Julien Valérie Donzelli, Macbeth Justin Kurzel. And others like The Lobster Yorgos Lantimos, Louder than bombs Joachim Trier or Chronic by Michel Franco were not up to what we expected of them. Films parallel sections, however, were often well made ( Paulina to the Critics ‘Week, Mustang to the Fortnight, Pauline s’ hard to Acid).

Melodrama comeback

The passage of time is a recurring theme of this edition ( Our sister Kore-eda, Youth by Paolo Sorrentino, Mountains May departure Jia Zhang-ke). The family is a rising value ( Mia madre Nanni Moretti, Louder than bombs Joachim Trier, Assassin Hou Hsiao-hsien, Valley of love Guillaume Nicloux) and torque, in particular, the subject of innumerable tensions ( Carol Todd Haynes, My King Maïwenn). This year, the intimate melodrama has taken over the treatment of the news. Even The law of the market Stéphane Brizé or Dheepan Jacques Audiard