Esquire's 13 Great Movies That Were Booed at the Cannes Film Festival

"The Cannes Film Festival is quite famous for its standing ovations. Critics and audiences love a full crowd standing and cheering to determine if a movie is going to be a hit. But just because Cannes Film Festival goers like to make their thoughts on the movie known doesn't mean that we're always counting the time in takes for people to applaud solid works of moviemaking. No, the French like to boo as well. Perhaps the strangest thing about all that booing, though, is that it's often great films that receive such a hostile reaction. Now, they're known as some of their respective directors' finest works throughout their career. To remind audiences of how crazy this festival is, here are films that earned critical acclaim—despite Cannes audiences' initial disgust for them." - esquire.com

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