After the slap Titaniumthe games are open for the Palme d’or awarded on Saturday, between a young director questioning masculinity (Close), a South Korean thriller or the Dardenne brothers film that can get a historical treble.
After watching 21 films in the competition, the jury retreated to the greatest secret, cut from the crackle of the Croisette, to choose who would receive a Palme more chic than ever: it was encrusted with 100 diamonds for th 75 this edition.
Before showing the top categories, the prize for best documentary, thegolden eyeswas awarded in the morning at Everyone is breathing by Shaunak Sen, in rescuing raptors in Delhi.
However, by 8:30 pm (2:30 pm Montreal time) the ceremony that everyone has been waiting for should begin. The president of the jury, Frenchman Vincent Lindon, will try not to fall off the carpet like his predecessor Spike Lee who, in 2021, inadvertently revealed the Palme d’Or at the start of the ceremony.
Beside her, to draw the winners of this 75th edition, is noteworthy actress and director Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), the manifestation of Millennium Noomi Rapace, filmmakers Asghar Farhadi (Grand Prize 2021 with A hero), Ladj Ly (Pitifuljury prize 2019) and Joachim Trier (Julie in 12 chapters).
Close competition
The games remain open to win over Julia Ducournau, the thirties who rocked the Croisette and dusted off last year’s competition. Titanium.
The chances of seeing a third director crowned in Festival history seem slim: American Kelly Reichardt hasn’t brought her viewers to Show upor the Frenchwoman Claire Denis (Noon stars). And the step seems pretty high for young talents Charlotte Vandermeersch and Léonor Serraille.
The coronation of Lukas Dhont, a 31-year-old Belgian with a meteoric career, will send further signs of rejuvenation for the 75th edition of the most important film festival, wishing not to lose link to the new viewers.
His film Close, heartbreaking, won the applause meter at the official screening (the applause lasted 12 minutes). It paints the image of a boy wounded by a lost friendship, carefully addressing the question of manhood and the weight of standards. And showed one talent, young Eden Dabrine, 15 years old.
But he’s not alone in the rankings: the jury could follow most of the international critics the magazine interviewed screenand to meet Park Chan-wook, who will return for the second Palme d’or in South Korea, three years later Parasite by Bong Joon-ho.
Decision to leavehis thriller about an inspector falling in love with a suspect, he recalls Primary Instinctsex and ice pick less, can be attracted by the virtuosity of its realization.
The Dardenne siblings were also mentioned Tori and Lokitawhich could get them a third Palme d’or, an unprecedented event in Cannes history.
The Festival of All Possibilities
Other favorites: the American James Gray, very autobiographical in Time of Armageddon o Tchaikovsky’s wife of Russian Kirill Serebrennikov, about the composer’s wife, who for a long time remained in the shadows and to whom he married to hide his homosexuality.
The coronation of this Russian artist, who violated the regime, will be an event right in the midst of the war in Ukraine, at the end of a Feast which made it a point of honor to offer a large place in this country: from the ceremony At the opening, President Zelensky summoned the spirit of Chaplin, living from kyiv, and vowed to defeat Putin.
Surprises are always possible, even if unavoidable, at the end of a festival hoping to help theaters attract people to theaters again, just like before the pandemic.
To make the public’s dream come true, the 75th edition of the Festival was drawn this year, out of competition, by the great star Tom Cruise, who came to present the new Top gunor Hollywood’s new darling, Austin Butler, in the role of Elvis for the biopic-event of Hari.
Source: Radio-Canada
