CANNES, France - The Cannes film festival opened 12 days ago with the crowd-pleasing Disney animation "Up", but a string of critical duds towards the close means its ending has been decidedly downbeat.
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The 20 films in the main competition have been variously booed, cheered, jeered and shunned as Cannes' notoriously picky audiences failed to agree on one, or even a handful of entries, worthy of the coveted Palme d'Or.
"It's been very uneven," said Jay Weissberg of trade publication Variety ahead of the closing ceremony on Sunday.
"There was a lot of expectation because of the names called out, but very few people would say the directors here have contributed their best works."
Underlining the lack of consensus, others are more positive.
"Overall a very good selection as far as the whole of the festival is concerned and a very, very good level as far as the competition is concerned," said Jean-Michel Frodon, editor of Cahiers du Cinema, the bible of highbrow French film criticism.
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