"Cannes 2023: Highlights from the Film Festival's Reviews, Fashion, and Star Appearances"

The Cannes Film Festival has begun with the opening-night movie Jeanne du Barry, and Deadline has compiled reviews of key films from the festival, including The Animal Kingdom, Anselm, Homecoming, Monster, Occupied City, and Strange Way of Life. Monster, directed by Hirokazu Kore-Eda, is a humanist family-centered film that represents the director's first movie without a screenplay credit since his 1995 debut feature Maborosi. Occupied City, directed by Steve McQueen, is a new kind of film about WWII and the Holocaust that calls for a new way of preserving memory and cautioning against a repetition of crimes against humanity driven by a racist ideology.