Netflix barred from competition at Cannes

Netflix and cinema are on different fundamental directories, according to Cannes festival head Thierry Fremaux, with "the intransigence of their model being the opposite of ours." Netflix and other producers of streaming content like Amazon can show their films out of competition, the requirement for competition entrance being a French theatrical release. This is all, of course, after Okja and The Meyerowitz Stories made a big splash at the competition last year. These new rules weren't in effec...