The last day of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival saw a region-wide power outage — reportedly an act of sabotage — and a handful of other surprises at the closing ceremony. “Something unexpected always happens whenever I’m in Cannes,” said American star John C. Reilly, in town with the Italian-made Western “Heads or Tails?” Hardly anyone could have foreseen the near-unanimous disappointment in Julia Ducournau’s “Alpha,” for example, as the Palme d’Or winner’s follow-up to “Titane” curdled on the red carpet. Or which Josh O’Connor movie had the better chance: gay love story “The History of Sound” or
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