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

10 things we learned at the Cannes 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.

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