'Leave One Day' Review: Slight Musical Is the Most Forgettable Thing About Cannes Film Festival's Opening Night

"Leave One Day," Amélie Bonnin's feature film that opened the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday evening, is an unusual film for a Cannes opener in several ways. It's a musical, only the third to open Cannes twice in this century, after Leos Carax's twisted "Annette" in 2021 and Baz Luhrmann's lavish "Moulin Rouge!" in 2001. It's directed by a woman, Bonnin, again only the third time that's happened in the 2000s, after Maiwenn in 2023 and Emmanuelle Bercot in 2015. And it's a first-time feature from a female director; the last time Cannes opened with one of those was, . . .