10 things we learned at the Cannes Film Festival

Helen Barlow reflects on the two weeks she spent at the world’s most famous film festival

1. IRELAND HAS A NEW STAR

Ruth Negga is having her biggest screen moment as the real life Mildred Loving alongside Joel Edgerton’s Richard in the story of a couple who helped invalidate laws prohibiting interracial marriage in a 1967 landmark US Supreme Court ruling. Negga’s radiant performance should propel the seasoned Irish actress all the way to the Oscars.