Joel and Ethan Coen present Inside Llewyn Davis, set in the folk scene of 1960s New York, while Soderbergh's Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra will also vie for the Palme d'Or.
The difficulties of love are also a subject of Boy George's moody pop musical "Taboo," set in the British club scene of the 1980's, which nurtured his career and embraced eccentrics of all kinds, including the flamboyant Philip Sallon, who was played in the show by Raúl Esparza.
A bleak comedy set in the early 60s folk scene of Greenwich Village, the film has made a star of its lead actor, Oscar Isaac, and it was he who collected the award in place of the directors, who had been forced to return to New York.
Of all the BDSM bashes, though, Torture Garden is the most outwardly accessible: think of it as the sexiest fancy dress party you've ever been to, set in the ravey opening scene of Blade (before everyone is massacred).
A movie set in the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s, "Inside Llewyn Davis" features music curated by T Bone Burnett, and though the night bore his imprimatur, it was the artists who burned. .
So in the scene set in the back of the train, when you're in period attire, you're not portraying anyone in particular.
The scenes set in the wilds of Wales, where Cymbeline's kidnapped sons have grown up under the rough but pure moral tutelage of his banished courtier Belarius (a fine Ryan Ellsworth), are spirited and warmly comic.
The garish pseudo-Nazi pageantry of the first scenes makes heavy freight for a Shakespeare comedy, and the shiny psychedelic riot of giant insects that pave the stage for the scenes set in the forest of Arden is almost equally distracting.
After approximately ten days, the production moved to Bellas Artes to film the scenes set in the Sultan of Hatay's palace.
The scenes set in the town of Twin Peaks itself have occasionally reached hard for a joke, but I feel like the actors' hearts aren't in it—I may be projecting, but it seems like they miss the old dialogue, the old pacing, and the old days.
