Proof came Friday as Cannes topper Thierry Fremaux unveiled the final four films in next month’s Official Selection.
Ever since the April 18 announcement of the fest’s lineup, U.K. industryites have been lamenting the absence of British film; Spain’s El Pais published a soul-searching one-page article Friday about a Spanish shutout and Germany was feeling similarly slighted.
In one fell swoop, Fremaux added films from the U.K., Germany and Spain, deflating those who sense a bias against their national industries. Yet the Cannes cut points up blunt realities about both the U.K. and Spanish film biz.
Jim Jarmusch’s vampire romance “Only Lovers Left Alive” (pictured above) with Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston, took the last competition slot. “Le Dernier des injustes,” a Holocaust documentary from France’s Claude Lanzmann…