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Following the exploits of the Paris police department's «child protection unit,» Polisse (which screened early on) helped to establish this year's Croisette - spanning theme of children in peril, which could be found to varying extents in fellow Competition entries Michael (kidnapping and pedophilia), Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin (teenage sociopathy), Aki Kaurismäki's universally admired Le Havre (illegal immigration), and the Dardenne Brothers» Grand Jury Prize co-winner The Kid with a Bike (child abandonment); in the Directors» Fortnight entry Play (bullying); and in just about every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the Nineties.

«We Need to Talk About Kevin» had the opposite problem; it becomes more and more absorbing and interesting as it goes on, but Lynne Ramsay (whose return, my ambivalence about her film aside, was some of the best news of the year) bashes you over the head with crashingly obvious symbolism so heavily in the opening that I could never get back into it.

Morvern Callar, Ramsay's sophomore film, opens in a gloomy apartment, completely silent but for the hypnotic, lulling buzz of blinking Christmas lights, on the titular character caressing the body of her dead boyfriend.

After it opens with French director Arnaud Desplechin's Ismael's Ghosts, Cannes will premiere films from streaming companies Amazon (Todd Haynes's Wonderstruck and Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here) and Netflix (Bong Joon - ho's Okja and Noah Baumbach's The Meyerowitz Stories); debut TV series from Showtime (David Lynch's Twin Peaks revival) and SundanceTV Jane Campion's Top of the Lake); and host a virtual - reality art installation created by Alejandro Inarritu.

It took six years from the success of We Need to Talk about Kevin to the release of writer / director Lynne Ramsay's new film, You Were Never Really Here, which opens nationally this weekend.