15 Winners and Losers From Cannes 2015
by The Daily Eye Team June 2 2015, 6:06 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 47 secsAs your jet-lagged Vulture staffers put their fancy clothes in with mothballs and break out the sweatpants, join us as we reminisce about what the Cannes Film Festival had to offer this year. Which movies came out of Cannes smelling like a rose, and which will now be tainted by the scent of merde? Here are 15 of this year’s winners, losers, and other superlatives. Biggest Punching Bag: Sea of Trees Yes, Gus Van Sant’s derided Matthew McConaughey drama had a meager script, but the pundits who were calling it the worst movie to ever play at Cannes either haven’t been going for very long or have been unusually blessed by the moviegoing gods. Still, there’s always gotta be one notorious flop on the Croisette, and this year, it was former Palme winner Van Sant’s chance to take those low blows.