Neon often is the toast of Cannes — once more — after touchdown its seventh consecutive Palme d’Or on Saturday because of “Fjord,” however in line with Boots Riley, the distributor might have had one other sizzling movie in its 2026 lineup.
With the musician and filmmaker’s newest film “I Love Boosters” having hit cinemas on Could 22, Riley has been busy selling the crime comedy — starring Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza González and LaKeith Stanfield — throughout social media.
However when requested by somebody on X why Neon selected to launch the movie at SXSW relatively than in Cannes, Riley stated that it was right down to the French competition, which he claimed had additionally rejected his earlier initiatives, together with his 2018 darkish comedy characteristic debut “Sorry to Bother You” (which bowed in Sundance that yr) and 2023 surrealist comedy collection “I am a Virgo.”
“Cannes didn’t pick Sorry to Bother You altho they picked other stuff that had been played in their home country,” he wrote. “They picked The Idol over I’m a Virgo. They didn’t pick I Love Boosters.”
Riley concluded: “They just don’t like my stuff. All good.”
“I Love Boosters,” Riley’s second characteristic, is a absurdist comedian send-up of consumerism, following a Robin Hood-like gang who shoplift excessive vogue from the wealthy after which promote it on on for a fraction of the value.
In Selection‘s evaluation, it described the movie as an “incendiary prank of a movie” that “begs our indulgence at times yet also invites us to get high on what a playful provocation it is.”
Selection has reached out to each the Cannes Film Festival and Neon.
