Matchmaking Thai women with lonely, working-class bachelors in a small Danish town.

The involving documentary follows three young people who arrived in the country as children with parents who are undocumented immigrants.

Director Marilyn Ness focuses on how real people on the ground are striving to hold Baltimore together.

Three films this year emphasized how much the last act of any film completes or diffuses everything that came before.

The almost clinical depiction of the hand-to-mouth life of a male sex worker.

An accessible crowd-pleaser in the mode of early 1990s art-house hits.

Asghar Farhadi broke the Cannes opening night curse this year. There is nothing embarrassing about this selection.

Will this year be the beginning of a new era for Cannes?

Among the films to look out for: The Great Pretender; The Miseducation of Cameron Post; and Nico, 1988.