it was fitting that Greta Gerwig was the jury president at the Cannes Film Festival this year since the question, “Do you guys ever think about dying?” was a preoccupation throughout many of the festival’s most anticipated titles. Late-stage works from three masters – David Cronenberg, Paul Schrader and Francis Ford Coppola – were among the most highly anticipated premieres, and all three films display a clear reckoning with the relentless passage of time and grief that inevitably stems from it. Even beyond the main competition, death and its inevitable fallout was a preoccupation. Perhaps it’s just that this is one of the few truly
