A cursory glance would conclude that politics is not on Cannes agenda this year.
The 79th edition of the influential film festival has no explicitly "political film" in the main competition (last year, the Palme d'Or went to It Was Just An Accident, an Iranian film about a group of political prisoners, and there were a couple of films about Gaza and Palestine in the sidebars).
So far, politics on screen at Cannes has shaped up around gender issues while the best-reviewed title, Fatherland, is a post-World War II drama about the writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika as they travelled through the rubble of West and East Germany.
