Ask Peter 05/15/26

Ask Peter 05/15/26

Going into the Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off this week, what’s making you most excited about the future of movies?

By Peter Travers

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Jane Schoenbrun at Cannes, flanked by actors Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson

Easy answer: Fresh voices. No knock on the older guard whose films dot the Cannes landscape this May—Christian Mungiu (“Fjord”), Pawel Pawlikowsi (“Fatherland”), Pedro Almodovar (“Bitter Christmas”)—but true excitement for me comes from discovery.