Arts & Entertainment

Why They Love to Boo at the Cannes Film Festival

On the French Riviera, those rowdy movie crowds are not saying 'beau'

May 2, 2013 6:46 p.m. ET

When they boo movies and directors at Cannes, you don't need subtitles to understand how the audience feels. It happens a lot—enough that the Brooklyn Academy of Music's BAMcinématek has assembled "Booed at Cannes," a 15-film series highlighting movies, many now considered classics, whose makers were razzed at the French film festival. "Booed" runs May 8 through 23, overlapping with this year's actual Cannes festivities.

"It feels like every year now there are reports of films being booed at their...

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