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Finally the tide turned. After days of less than stellar screenings – remember, by this time last year we’d already seen Inside Llewyn Davis, Nebraska and Fruitvale Station - the festival turned a corner Sunday and Monday with the screenings of Cronenberg’s Maps to The Stars and Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher.

Godzilla roared to a monster release as Warner Brothers’ first big summer offering scored a massive $93 million debut weekend in North America. This tally makes it the second biggest opener of 2014, nestled comfortably between Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier ($95 million) and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($91.

Cannes is not only a screening marathon, it is above all party central. And this weekend was no exception.

Remember True? Remember Gold? Remember Lifeline?. It was the 80’s and the famous rivalry between Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet.

Sofia Coppola celebrated her 43rd birthday a day late (because of opening night) in a restaurant on the Croisette with fellow jury members Leila Hatami, ex-Bondgirl Carole Bouquet, Willem Dafoe and jury president Jane Campion. The only woman to have ever won the Palme d’Or, Campion was very vocal about the lack of women behind the camera: "I think you'd have to say there's some inherent sexism in the industry.