Ep. 396: Eric Hynes on Cannes 2026: Club Kid, The Beloved (El Ser Querido), Clarissa, Propeller One-Way Night Coach

Ep. 396: Eric Hynes on Cannes 2026: Club Kid, The Beloved (El Ser Querido), Clarissa, Propeller One-Way Night Coach Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. With the 2026 Cannes Film Festival in full effect, I sat down again with Eric Hynes, critic and director of film curation and programming at the Jacob Burns Film Center. First we discussed two very different Competition titles about parent-child entanglements: Club Kid (directed, written by, and starring Jordan Firstman) and The Beloved (aka El Ser Querido, directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, starring Javier Bardem and Victoria Luengo). Then we exchanged films that only one of us had seen: Clarissa, from Directors’ Fortnight, a Mrs. Dalloway adaptation directed by Arie & Chuko Esiri; and then John Travolta’s directorial debut, Propeller One-Way Night Coach. Subscribe/follow for more on the latest movies premiering at Cannes! Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass