3. Only God Forgives

Ahh, Ryan Gosling. The handsome man from The Notebook, the tragic hubby in Blue Valentine, the charming teacher in Half Nelson. His looks alone prove he can do no wrong. And in Drive, the ultra-stylized 2011 noir with a killer soundtrack, Gosling solidified his role as Hollywood’s mysterious man. But director Nicolas Winding Refn swapped out a stuntman for a boxer, L.A. for Bangkok, and ended up with an acid-tongued, suffocatingly macho piece of work that had audience members hissing. I haven’t seen it yet but am more than willing to give it a chance. Winding Refn has yet to offend me and Gosling’s baby blues do anything but.

4. Marie Antoinette

It is difficult for me to think a negative thought about Sofia Coppola let alone a nasty word or phrase like potentially not her best work. And so I will compromise and say that maybe it wasn’t as politically thoughtful or the most perfect casting (Kirsten Dunst again!) but it was visually provoking and sounded amazing. The movie dealt lightly with French history and the Cannes Film Festival is in France, so there’s that. And perhaps if a French director downplayed major moments in American history, I might boo. Or I might just keep Shazamming the songs soundtracking each scene and be like: This Is Awesome.

5. The Brown Bunny

Like Sofia Coppola, I enter this with a bias. Besides the fact that some say I resemble Vincent Gallo, his first feature film Buffalo ’66 was filmed in my beloved hometown of, you guessed it, Buffalo, NY, where Gallo was born and raised. In the most famous/infamous scene in The Brown Bunny, Chloe Sevigny administers oral delight to Vincent Gallo. It’s thought perhaps that was what the Cannes audience was booing. Roger Ebert called it “the worst film in the history of Cannes” stating that “one day I will be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.”

6. Wild at Heart / Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

David Lynch is for sure a provocateur. I mean, what is Mulholland Drive about anyways, seriously, email me, and try not to use the word experience. Lynchians might take pride in the fact that two of his films received boos at Cannes, that the very act of booing could be the opening scene to the very movie the audience is booing—or something.

7. Taking Woodstock

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Booed at Cannes: 7 Films That Weren't a Hit