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Cannes 2026’s Big Hit is Jordan Firstman’s Internet-Brained, Big-Hearted ‘Club Kid’

Cannes 2026’s Big Hit is Jordan Firstman’s Internet-Brained, Big-Hearted ‘Club Kid’

It’s been a fairly muted Cannes Film Festival this year. The closest thing to a starry, major-studio event was a 25th anniversary screening of The Fast and the Furious attended by Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez. There’s less than a week left to go, and so far the most-anticipated movies in the competition slate, from James Gray’s Russian mob drama Paper Tiger (reuniting Marriage Story alumni Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson) to Paweł Pawlikowski’s Sandra Hüller-starring Fatherland and Asghar Farhadi’s French debut Parallel Tales, have not been met with the enthusiastic reception we’ve come to expect from the launchpad for the biggest arthouse films of the year. Worst of all, the standing ovations are sometimes clocking in at a measly three minutes, which is the Cannes equivalent of being pelted with tomatoes. You have to venture outside of the heavy hitters for the true gems of the festival. The highlight? Jordan Firstman’s directorial debut Club Kid, which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section on Friday and was just nabbed by A24 for an eye-watering $17 …