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Moviegoing dreamers, there is hope for us still in this timeless, tender romance from living legend Aki Kaurismäki. Imbued with the filmmaker’s idiosyncratic playfulness and deadpan humor, this bittersweet comedy charmed even the most dour of critics and, delightfully, won the Jury Prize at Cannes.

Three lovers spin in a vortex of pent-up desire and resentment in Ira Sachs’ fresh, honest and acerbically funny take on messy, modern relationships. Just like its dynamic leads—Franz Rogowski, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Ben Whishaw—this refreshingly fluid relationship drama simply oozes sex appeal.

America is an adequate refuge but no star-spangled land of dreams when it comes to the modern immigrant experience. Recalling Jim Jarmusch and Aki Kaurismäki with each cool monochrome vignette, this Sundance darling is threaded through with deadpan humor and performances of glimmering insight.

Rebelling against the banality of work, Rodrigo Moreno’s playful and restorative Cannes highlight reinvents the heist film as a free-flowing adventure in which love and epiphanies bloom. A beguiling and defiant quest for personal freedom that dares to embrace the strangeness of life with open arms.

Noah Baumbach immortalizes the big spirit and small life of a lovably goofy and idealistic young woman, adrift and alone in N.Y. Shot with past-tense tenderness in evocative monochrome, a millennial spirit ignites this new classic, which was both led and co-written by a luminous Greta Gerwig.

More than a calling card for the Oscar®-winning Moonlight, Barry Jenkins’ feature debut heralded the arrival of a deeply impassioned vision. A yearning portrait of modern Blackness in San Francisco, Medicine for Melancholy is a captivatingly authentic tale of hesitant love and urban malaise.

Inspired by a shocking real-life case, this small-scale tragedy is a masterclass in escalating tension. A sharp exploration of how egomania clouds judgment, Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s gripping thriller thrums with shifting power dynamics as machismo buckles in a nasty clash at the film’s thorny center.

In this seductively twisted, modern romantic thriller, obsession is taken to wondrous and vertiginous extremes. Without a doubt one of the most electrifying minds working in cinema today, Park Chan-wook won the Best Director award at Cannes for his sumptuous, Hitchcockian masterwork.