Cannes creates audience hits and awards winners for global box office success; some will even make it to the Oscars.
What does it mean to win an award at Cannes in the long run? It depends on which: the Palme d’Or and the performance awards have more impact than any of the nine awards. For every Penelope Cruz in “Back” or Rooney Mara in “Carol,” who was nominated for an Oscar, there is a Renate Reinsve, who had a large number of nominations for “The Worst Person in the World.” , but did not win an Oscar.
A Cannes award can help a winner of the screenplay like “Boy from Heaven” be distributed, even in North America. And it increases the chances of a film being nominated for an Oscar for its home country, though neither “Boy from Heaven” by Swedish-Egyptian filmmaker Tarik Saleh nor “Holy Spider” by the Iranian- Danish Ali Abbasi, who won Best Actress for Tsar Amir Ebrahimi as Best Actress. a journalist fighting for justice for the murdered prostitutes, will be presented by Egypt or Iran, respectively. Both filmmakers are persona non grata in these countries for dealing with taboo subjects. (Sweden or Denmark could do the honors, though.)
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“This movie is about women,” said Amir Ebrahimi. “It’s about their bodies, it’s a film full of hands, feet, breasts, sex, everything that’s impossible to show in Iran. Thank you Ali Abbasi for being so crazy and so generous, and thank you for directing this powerful film against all odds. “
“Holy Spider”
Most of the non-English language films in Cannes that could end up in the Oscars will compete for the best international film, although in recent years “Parasite”, “Cold War”, “Drive My Car “and” Worst Person “. in the world ”also ended up competing in other races, such as screenwriting, photography, directing and image.
Cannes can make races. “25 filmmakers made love for the first time with cinema and this Cannes film festival,” said Rossy de Palma, president of the Golden Chamber jury, who voted for the first film award in the a work by Un Certain Regard “War Pony”. an Indigenous story directed by Riley Keough and Gina Gammell, the only American winner of the Cannes national team; David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future,” Kelly Reichardt’s “Showing Up,” and James Gray’s “Armageddon Time” didn’t cut the contest jury short.
The jury was positively radiant after their two-week experience debating 21 films. “I am terribly sad, happy and cheerful,” President Vincent Lindon said. “I liked everything: the people and the movies, the electricity that permeates the street air. The jury was as generous, demanding and combative as the spectators and film experts … The fascinating and passionate debates were exhausting. All decisions were made with a good majority. “
“Broker”
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Neon did well at Cannes, marking his third consecutive Palm winner. “Titane” and “Parasite” dealership will make sure to push their stunning winner of the “Triangle of Sadness” Gold Palm, which the dealer won in a bidding war, with a drop of 8 million dollars. The hilarious satire of the super-rich became the consensus selection for the diverse jury of men and women, actors and filmmakers, although Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund won in 2017 for “The Square”. But the film will compete for its merits as an English film, Östlund’s first; it should prove a commercial release in film, and an Oscar nomination for the screenplay would be a good bet.
The filmmaker kissed all the members of the jury. He sought to entertain and provoke, at the same time, the conversation after the screening, he said: with others. ”
Neon will push Japan to present “Broker”, a regular Cannes winner and winner of the 2018 Palme d’Or at “Shoplifters” and Oscar nominee Hirokazu Kore-eda, Korean star Song Kang Ho (“Parasite”) the best actor was taken home. It was a good day for Korea, which is set to present at the Oscars the grumpy black police officer of Park Chan-wook, winner of the Cannes Executive Award, “Decision to Leave” (Mubi), starring Tang Wei as a woman. fatal suspect in murder. This sleek critical hit could play for audiences around the world.
“With the pandemic, the borders between countries were closed,” Park said. “It was difficult to communicate; sometimes it was quite complicated. We were very scared of each other. And the movie theaters were empty. We have overcome the virus and we hope that people will return to the cinemas. “
“Decision to leave”
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The Jury Prize went to “Eo” (“Hee-haw”) from Poland by 84-year-old Jerzy Skolimowski of Cannes, Cannes, who said, “Thank you, my donkeys, eeoooo!” Belgium will have a dilemma when it comes to choosing its Oscar nomination. They have three options: “The Eight Mountains”, co-directed by the team of husband and wife Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix Van Groenigen, who learned Italian to shoot in Italy. Another Belgian winner, however, was the frequent Cannes winners, the Dardenne brothers, who have won the Palm twice before (“Rosetta”, “L’Enfant”) and therefore settled for a Special Prize. for the 75th anniversary of the festival for its move. the drama “Tori and Lokita”, which tells the story of two coerced African refugees. This film has not been picked up in North America.
The most likely Belgian presentation, however, that drew the most applause from the Palais audience was Lukas Dhont’s drama “Close”, which shared the second most important prize, the Grand Prix, with romance. in English by Claire Denis “. Stars at Noon”, starring Joe Alwyn and Margaret Qualley. The veteran French filmmaker discovered the young actress at Cannes in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and “went into a state of ecstasy,” she said. Both are distributed by A24.
“In recent years, we have had to stay away from those we love, to protect them,” Dhont said. “I realized how much my friends needed me … I wanted to make a tenderness film about young people … When you let people get close to you, you can be a superpower.”
France will have several Oscar nominees, as usual, including the title of the “Mother and Son” competition, by Léonor Seraille; neither Arnaud Desplechin’s “Brother and Sister” nor Michel Hazanavicius’ opening comedy “Final Cut” were well received enough to be strong candidates. Leah Seydoux’s romance by Mia Hansen-Love “One Fine Morning” (Sony Pictures Classics), which she performed inexplicably in the Directors’ Fortnight, is another possibility.
“Corsage”
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And Austria could present the irreverent costume drama of the acclaimed filmmaker Marie Kreutzer “Corsage”, starring the versatile Berlin actress Vicky Krieps (Cannes 2021 entrance “Bergman Island”) as the rebellious Empress Elisabeth (“Sissi”) of Austria -Hungary, which many thought should have been scheduled. in the Contest. Krieps shared the Un Certain Regard award for Best Actress. With the right treatment of IFC Films, the 19th century royal revision could compete for Best Actress and Best Costume Design, as well as International Film.
As for documentaries, Cannes has always had trouble finding prime venues for the best documentaries of the year, ceding that ground to Sundance and other Tribeca and Toronto festivals in New York. Brett Morgen’s “Moonage Daydream” (Neon) documentary, David Bowie’s kaleidoscopic portrait bound in IMAX, debuted in the midnight section, while the special screenings were “Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind “by Ethan Coen (A24) and Shaunak Sen’s lyrical portrait of Delhi’s Black Thousands, Sundance’s debut” All That Breathes “(HBO), which won the 2022 Cannes Documentary Jury Prize. Oscar nominees.
“Elvis”
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As for the most popular Cannes premieres, “Top Gun: Maverick” by Joseph Kosinski, starring Tom Cruise, is stunning at the box office and will likely compete in the same tech categories as the Oscar that most sequels of study; a screenplay nomination for writers Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie would also be well deserved. An Oscar that could win: the song “Hold My Hand” by Lady Gaga.
Baz Luhrmann’s dazzling musical biopic “Elvis” (Warner Bros.), which could follow the playbook of “Bohemian Rhapsody” and not just include Austin Butler in the best acting career, but Luhrmann for director and wife Catherine Martin. for another costume Oscar, not to mention Sound, Assembly and Hairdressing and Makeup. As for “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” the fantasy and romance of George Miller, starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton, the September release will need special treatment by MGM / UA to last until the season of Oscar.
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