Maybe it's still too early but /tv/ went full retard on this.

Was this really the best film of 2024?
It won the Palm d'Or and the Oscar for Best Picture, literally fourth movie to ever do so.

Looking at it technically, it doesn't do anything crazy. It is just a plain depiction of events that take place over like a week. The acting is pretty good, the story is fairly interesting, but all that alone just makes it a "good" movie, not a movie of peerless caliber.

So what was it? Was it the subtleness of emotion, the pseudo-comedic tone broken by empty tragedy? Was it the elevation of a lurid subject matter to a caliber of appraisal that freed the more refined movie-goer from their usual constraints of propriety? Was it just the "least bad" movie of the year with respect to narrative and formic decisions?