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Best Actor Tahar Rahim as a young man behind bars in A Prophet. Ben Whishaw as John Keats in Bright Star. André Dussollier as the elderly hero in Wild Grass. François Cluzet as a con man in In the Beginning.   Photos: Courtesy Festival de Cannes  

At Firstshowing.net, Alex Billington on À Deriva / Adrift (above, with Laura Neiva), screened in the Un Certain Regard sidebar: "I think I stumbled across a big Cannes sleeper hit. From the beaches of Brazil comes Adrift, known as À Deriva in Portuguese, the third film from Brazilian director Heitor Dhalia. I'm going to say right up front — following in the footsteps of City [...]