Albert Serra and actor Benoît Magimel won the award ceremony on Saturday. Photo EFE
On the eve of discovering the official winners of the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival and the 21 films in the competition that have already been screened, the stakes are still openwith the Decision to Leaveby Park Chan-wook and Time of Armageddonby James Gray, who leads the assumptions.
The romantic thriller of the South Korean director, who won the Grand Jury Prize in Cannes in 2003 with the old manhas achieved the highest marks from accredited critics at the festival with its sensual proposition, intricate plot and virtuosic presentation.
In a more classic style, but relentless in the roughness of his message, a dart against neoliberalism, American James Gray is hot on his heels in a film featuring stars like Anne Hathaway Y Anthony Hopkins and where he raised his own childhood in the suburbs of New York in the 1980s.
Chinese actress Tang Wei, director Park Chan-Wook and South Korean actor Park Hae-Il, when they screened their film. Photo by AFP
If the jury, headed by Frenchman Vincent Lindon, had taken a chance, the Spaniard Albert Serra had many chances to Pacificiona French co-production shot in Tahiti that puts the viewer in the somewhat paranoid mind of a politician sent by France to the islands.
Serra prioritizes the atmospheres before the discourse, producing highly suggestive images and releasing reflections on politics and art, allowing the viewer to do their part in the work.
Anne Hathaway and director James Gray, after the premiere of “Armageddon Time”. Photo by Reuters
On that more radical and groundbreaking line, he competes with two veterans. On the one hand David Cronenberg included Future Crimesclapped for six minutes, linking his obsession with fear to the body and describing a synthetic world where there is no pain and surgery is “the new gender”.
On the other hand, there’s Pole Jerzy Skolimowski, who suggests seeing the world from the eyes of a donkey in Yesa plea against animal abuse and against human stupidity, with little dialogue and wrap-up photos.
Kristen Stewart, Viggo Mortensen and director David Cronenberg, competing in “Crimes of the Future.” Photo by AP
Belgian Lukas Dhont also has options for the winners of his second feature film, Closewhere he questions stereotypes of masculinity and emphasizes friendship and tenderness between men, while addressing the complexity of mourning in adolescence and the feeling of guilt.
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As for the performances, among the most applauded was the Italian Pierfrancesco Favino, as the man who returned to his native Naples after 40 years in Nostalgiaby Mario Martone, Viggo Mortensen, in Future Crimesand the American Margaret Qualley, the journalist imprisoned in Nicaragua in Noon starsby Claire Dennis.
The final word is the jury, which will announce the winners at the closing ceremony that will take place tomorrow, starting at 8:30 pm (French time) at the Palais des Festivals de Cannes.
Lindon is the first Frenchman to preside over the official jury since 2009. He was joined in the deliberations by Swedish actress Noomi Rapace, Indian Deepika Padukone, British actress and director Rebecca Hall and Italian Jasmine Trinca, the Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, the Frenchman Ladj Ly, the American Jeff Nichols and the Norwegian Joachim Trier.
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Source: Clarin
