The best-reviewed films of the Cannes Film Festival range from Ari Aster’s pandemic-set ’Eddington’ to Palme d’Or winner ‘It Was Just an Accident.’

Nouvelle Vague, part of the Cannes competition slate, is the ultimate inside-baseball making-of movie. But even more than that, it’s a picture that stands strong on the side of art, of history, of working to solve the puzzle of things that maybe at first you don’t fully understand.

Juliette Binoche, Jury President of the 78th Cannes Film Festival and Jury members Alba Rohrwacher, Leila Sliman pose on the red carpet during arrivals for the screening of the film "Resurrection" (Kuang ye shi dai) in competition at the 78th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes,