Cannes Day 10: ‘The Pot au Feu’ Makes Audiences Hungry and a Competition Controversy Erupts
thewrap.comCannes 2023 comes to a close, and much like yesterday, things have seemed a bit quiet. The movie on most everyone’s lips, at least if social media is any indicator, was Trần Anh Hùng’s period drama “The Pot au Feu,” a feature that, according to TheWrap’s Ben Croll in his review, “might very well be the most handsomely shot and soothingly felt serving of art house food porn ever brought to screen.
It’s about to become your mother’s favorite film, and it’s an absolute delight.”But before the screening started, as Variety reported, a demonstration in support of Indigenous land rights took place on the film’s red carpet.
It was led by the directors and actors of “The Buriti Flower,” a film showing in Un Certain Regard directed by Portugal’s João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora.
The group carried a banner saying, “Não ao Marco Temporal: The Future of Indigenous Lands in Brazil is Under Threat.”The protest is aimed at a law limiting the constitutional rights of the Indigenous people to only the lands they own under a 1988 contract.
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