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In today's dispatch, our critic-about-Cannes talks about yesterday's pesky Press Lions controversy and the 2010 festival's obsession with happiness—from Volkswagen's "The Fun Theory" to Stefan Sagmeister's personal happiness project to the gold-Lion-winning "Quitting Calendar" in Design. Video after the jump.

The video's intro music is from "The Up & Up" by Steve Rawlins.

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