Each Cannes screening begins with an animation of red-carpeted stairs rising from the ocean floor to the stars. It’s crowned by the festival’s golden emblem, which sparks a polite smattering of claps.

This year’s Cannes Film Festival is over, ending in dramatic fashion with a power outage ahead of the closing ceremony that bestowed the Palme d’Or trophy to Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s film, “It Was Just an Accident.

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