Nouvelle Vague, part of the Cannes competition slate, is the ultimate inside-baseball making-of movie. But even more than that, it’s a picture that stands strong on the side of art, of history, of working to solve the puzzle of things that maybe at first you don’t fully understand.

Two years after he went on hunger strike in an Iranian prison, he’s returned with one of the year’s best movies.

So far, the longest standing ovation this year at the Cannes Film Festival has set the record for the longest ever, lasting 12 minutes. For an insider’s look at the movies getting the most acclaim plus new red carpet fashion rules Spectrum News 1 anchor Kate Cagle talked to L.