If you follow our Festiville HQ, you will have gotten a pretty solid picture of reactions to the films that premiered at Cannes this year, along with a day-to-day feeling of what it was like being there. Annually, the Cannes Film Festival is one of the biggest events in film, but the 2021 festival was more than just the 74th edition—it was the first in-person-only film festival to occur post-Covid shutdowns. That brought about some complications around testing, and ticketing, but largely things went very smoothly.

By the end of the festival, the awards became historic beyond the Covid narrative when Titane’s Julia Ducournau became only the second woman ever to win the Palme d’Or in the festival’s history. While the Cannes awards are voted on by just ten film professionals, we were curious about what the Letterboxd verdict on the ten best films was.

So here are the ten highest-rated movies (with at least 100 views) from the 2021 Festival de Cannes, according to the Letterboxd community.

The Worst Person in the World (Verdens verste menneske)

Directed by Joachim Trier, written by Trier and Eskil Vogt

Renate Reinsve took home Best Actress for The Worst Person in the World, and the film itself was the biggest crowd-pleaser of Cannes 2021. The Oscar Expert predicted that when more of the Letterboxd community has seen it, they will “rocket that average rating to a 4.0”. We shall see. The film, which chronicles a twenty-something’s transition into a thirty-something with equal charm and mistakes, was picked up at the festival by NEON for North America and Mubi for distribution in the UK/India.

Drive My Car (ドライブ・マイ・カー)

Written and directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Drive My Car had the longest runtime at Cannes (one minute shy of three hours) but that didn’t affect its Letterboxd standing in the slightest. Like The Worst Person in the World, this Haruki Murakami adaptation is divided into chapters concerning a playwright, his wife, and the strange ways their work differs. Anthony called it “easily the most moving and compelling film I saw at Cannes. The extended prologue is a brilliant start to the film, so beautiful, sensual, haunting and quietly devastating. Just fantastic, followed by a slow but consistent story of guilt, reconciliation, memory and the struggle of continuing to live and create.” Hamaguchi won the Best Screenplay prize from this year’s jury.