Park Chan-wook, the first South Korean to chair a Cannes jury, stated during the press conference that politics and art are two sides of the same coin, while juror Paul Laverty expressed solidarity with actors who lost work following statements about Gaza. The official opener, La Vénus électrique by Pierre Salvador, proved disappointing, as did Butterfly Jam by Kantemir Balagov, which, despite a strong ensemble featuring Barry Keoghan and Riley Keough, never truly penetrates the Circassian community in Newark. The revelation was Jane Schoenbrun, whose Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma opened Un Certain Regard as a shamelessly queer horror work in which Hannah Einbinder plays a filmmaker reviving an old horror franchise.