The crisis is touched upon in several films in Cannes. The limousine from Cronenberg's new film Cosmopolis moves through the end times of capitalism; Violent protests take place in the streets, the business elite fears attacks. Well timed, the film journalists compliment: just as Europe is collapsing. “Pure coincidence,” says Cronenberg. Someone asks: 'Are there similarities between people like that on Wall Street and vampires?' But no one in the fashionable seaside resort fights economic inequality more fanatically than 75-year-old says Ken Loach. “I always film with a social agenda,” he says. The crisis is not passing by Cannes either.

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