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Cannes: Los Angeles Times critics on everything you need to know about this year's festival

CANNES, France - The 72nd Festival de Cannes featured new films by Quentin Tarantino and Terrence Malick, opened with Jim Jarmusch's "The Dead Don't Die" and ended with the Palme d'Or going to "Parasite," a thriller directed by South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho. Now that this year's edition is complete, Times critics Justin Chang and Kenneth Turan reflect on what the festival got right and what could have been better.

KENNETH TURAN: Cannes 2019 is now firmly in the rear-view mirror, and as we watch it recede into history, it seems, at least to me, to have been something of an unusual year.

On the one hand, the event did not seem as jammed with people as it has been in the past, not necessarily a bad thing, but the

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