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Shadows @ Cannes
The world's glitziest film festival Held annually on the French Riviera • Rich last attended Cannes in 2008, and is still recovering | |||
76th Cannes Film Festival 16 - 27 May 2023 Opening film: JEANNE DU BARRY Closing film: ELEMENTAL | 2 0 2 3 A W A R D S |
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Palme d'Or: ANATOMY OF A FALL (Fr) Grand Prix: THE ZONE OF INTEREST Jury prize: FALLEN LEAVES Queer Palm: MONSTER Camera d'Or: Thien An Pham (INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL) L'Oeil d'Or: FOUR DAUGHTERS and THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES Director: Tran Anh Hung (THE TASTE OF THINGS) Screenplay: Yuji Sakamoto (MONSTER) Actress: Merve Dizdar (ABOUT DRY GRASSES) Actor: Koji Yakusho (PERFECT DAYS) Honorary Palme d'Or: Michael Douglas and Harrison Ford Un Certain Regard: HOW TO HAVE SEX Un Certain Regard - Jury Prize: HOUNDS Un Certain Regard - Director: Asmae El Moudir (THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES) Un Certain Regard - Ensemble: THE BURITI FLOWER New Voice: Baloji (OMEN) Freedom Prize: GOODBYE JULIA |
Critics' Week: TIGER STRIPES Rising Star: Jovan Ginic (LOST COUNTRY) Cinemas Art et Essai: LA CHIMERA Chopard Trophy: Daryl McCormack and Naomi Ackie Cinef: NORWEGIAN OFFSPRING Citoyennete: FOUR DAUGHTERS Ecumenical: PERFECT DAYS Europa Cinemas Label: CREATURA Fipresci - Competition: THE ZONE OF INTEREST Fipresci - Un Certain Regard: THE SETTLERS Fipresci - First Feature: POWER ALLEY Francois Chalais: FOUR DAUGHTERS Palm Dog: Messi as Snoop (ANATOMY OF A FALL) Palm Dog Grand Jury: Alma (FALLEN LEAVES) Palm Dog Mutt Moment: LA CHIMERA Palm Dogmanitarian: Isabella Rossellini Palm Dog Life Achievement: Ken Loach SACD: A PRINCE Soundtrack: Mica Levi (THE ZONE OF INTEREST) | ||
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L'ABBE PIERRE: UNE VIE DE COMBATS (Tellier) ABOUT DRY GRASSES (Ceylan) ABRAHAM'S VALLEY (de Oliveira) ACID (Philippot) AGRA (Behl) ALONG CAME LOVE (Quillevere) AMA GLORIA (Amachoukeli, Fr) ANATOMY OF A FALL (Triet, Fr) ANSELM (Wenders, Ger) ASTEROID CITY (Anderson, US) BANEL E ADAMA (Sy) BLACK FLIES (Sauvaire) BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY (Naveriani, Geo) BONNARD, PIERRE AND MARTHE (Provost) THE BOOK OF SOLUTIONS (Gondry) BREAD AND ROSES (Mani) THE BREAKING ICE (Chen) A BRIGHTER TOMORROW (Moretti) THE BURITI FLOWER (Salaviza/Nader Messora) LA CHIMERA (Rohrwacher) CLOSE YOUR EYES (Erice) CLUB ZERO (Hausner) COBWEB (Kim) CREATURA (Gimeno) THE DELINQUENTS (Moreno, Arg) DESERTS (Bensaidi) ELEMENTAL (Sohn, US) EUREKA (Alonso, Arg) THE (EX)PERIENCE OF LOVE (Sirot /Balboni, Bel) FALLEN LEAVES (Kaurismaki, Fin) THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED (Arnow) FIREBRAND (Ainouz) FOUR DAUGHTERS (Ben Hania) THE GOLDMAN CASE (Kahn) GOODBYE JULIA (Kordofani) GRACE (Povolotsky) HOMECOMING (Corsini) HOPELESS (Kim) HOUNDS (Lazraq) HOW TO HAVE SEX (Walker, UK) HYPNOTIC (Rodriguez, US) THE IDOL (Levinson) IF ONLY I COULD HIBERNATE (Purevdash) IN FLAMES (Kahn) IN OUR DAY (Hong) INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY (Mangold, UK) INSHALLAH A BOY (Al Rasheed, Jor) INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL (An Pham) IT'S RAINING IN THE HOUSE (Sermon-Dai, Bel) |
JEANNE DU BARRY (Maiwenn) JUST THE TWO OF US (Donzelli) KENNEDY (Kashyap) KIDNAPPED (Bellocchio) KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (Scorsese, US) THE KING OF ALGIERS (Belkeddar) KUBI (Kitano) LAST SUMMER (Breillat) LEGUA (Reis/Guerra) LITTLE GIRL BLUE (Achache) LOST COUNTRY (Perisic, Ser) LOST IN THE NIGHT (Escalante, Mex) MAMBAR PIERRETTE (Mbakam) MAN IN BLACK (Wang) MARGUERITE'S THEOREM (Novion) MAY DECEMBER (Haynes, US) MONSTER (Kore-eda, Jpn) THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES (El Moudir) THE NATURE OF LOVE (Chokri) THE NEW BOY (Thornton, Aus) NO LOVE LOST (Le Duc, Fr) OCCUPIED CITY (McQueen) THE OLD OAK (Loach, UK) OMEN (Baloji) ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS (Wei) THE OTHER LAURENS (Schmitz) PERFECT DAYS (Wenders, Jpn) PICTURES OF GHOSTS (Mendonca) A PRINCE (Creton) POWER ALLEY (Halla, Br) PROJECT SILENCE (Kim) THE RAPTURE (Kaltenback, Fr) LE REGNE ANIMAL (Cailley) RIDDLE OF FIRE (Razooli) RIEN A PERDRE (Deloget) ROBOT DREAMS (Berger, Sp) ROSALIE (Di Giusto) SALEM (Marlin) THE SETTLERS (Galvez, Chl) SHE IS CONANN (Mandico) A SONG SUNG BLUE (Geng) SLEEP (Yu, Kor) STRANGERS BY NIGHT (Lutz) THE SWEET EAST (Williams) THE TASTE OF THINGS (Hung, Fr) TERRESTRIAL VERSES (Asgari/Khatami) TIGER STRIPES (Eu, Mys) VINCENT MUST DIE (Castang, Fr) YOUTH (Wang) THE ZONE OF INTEREST (Glazer, Pol) | ||
75th Cannes Film Festival 17 - 28 May 2022 Opening film: FINAL CUT | 2 0 2 2 A W A R D S | ||
Palme d'Or: TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Grand Prix: CLOSE and STARS AT NOON Jury prize: EO and THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS Queer Palm: JOYLAND Camera d'Or: Riley Keough & Gina Gammell (WAR PONY) L'Oeil d'Or: ALL THAT BREATHES Director: Park Chan-Wook (DECISION TO LEAVE) Screenplay: Tarik Saleh (CAIRO CONSPIRACY) Actress: Zar Amir Ebrahimi (HOLY SPIDER) Actor: Song Kang-ho (BROKER) 75th anniversary Prize: TORI AND LOKITA Honorary Palme d'Or: Forest Whitaker and Tom Cruise Chopard Trophy: Sheila Atim and Jack Lowden Rising Star: Zelda Samson (LOVE ACCORDING TO DALVA) Soundtrack: Pawel Mykietyn (EO) Critics' Week: LA JAURIA Un Certain Regard: THE WORST ONES Un Certain Regard - Jury Prize: JOYLAND Un Certain Regard - Director: Alexandru Belc (METRONOM) Un Certain Regard - Screenplay: Maha Haj (MEDITERRANEAN FEVER) Un Certain Regard - Performance: Vicky Krieps (CORSAGE) and Adam Bessa (HARKA) Cinefondation: A CONSPIRACY MAN |
Art House Cinema: TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Citizenship: LEILA'S BROTHERS Coup de Coeur: RODEO CST Artist-Technician: TRIANGLE OF SADNESS CST Young Film Technician: MOTHER AND SON Dramatic Authors & Composers: THE MOUNTAIN Ecumenical Jury: BROKER Fipresci - Competition: LEILA'S BROTHERS Fipresci - Un Certain Regard: THE BLUE CAFTAN Fipresci - First Feature: LOVE ACCORDING TO DALVA Francois Chalais: CAIRO CONSPIRACY French Touch: AFTERSUN Gan Foundation: THE WOODCUTTER STORY Golden Eye: ALL THAT BREATHES La Cinef: A CONSPIRACY MAN Label Europa Cinemas: ONE FINE MORNING Palm Dog: Brit (WAR PONY) Palm Dog Grand Jury: Marcel (MARCEL!) and canine cast (GODLAND) Palm Dog Dogmanitarian: Patron Palm Hound Dog: Titane SACD - Critics' Week: LA JAURIA | ||
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1976 (Martelli, Chl) AFTERSUN (Wells, UK) ALL OF THIS BELONGS TO YOU (Fanara, Fr) ALL THAT BREATHES (Sen, Ind) ALL THE PEOPLE I'LL NEVER BE (Chou) LES AMANDIERS (Bruni Tedeschi) ARMAGEDDON TIME (Gray, US) ASHKAL (Chebbi) THE BEASTS (Sorogoyen, Sp) THE BLUE CAFTAN (Touzani, Mor) BROKER (Kore-eda, Kor) BROTHER AND SISTER (Desplechin) BURNING DAYS (Alper) BUTTERFLY VISION (Nakonechnyi, Ukr) CAIRO CONSPIRACY (Saleh, Swe) CLOSE (Dhont, Bel) A CONSPIRACY MAN (Ferrara, It) CONTINENTAL DRIFT (SOUTH) (Baier) CORSAGE (Kreutzer, Aut) CRAZE (Szelestey, Hun) CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (Cronenberg, Can) THE DAM (Cherri) DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA (Paravel/Castaing-Taylor) DECISION TO LEAVE (Park, Kor) DIARY OF A FLEETING AFFAIR (Mouret, Fr) DODO (Koutras) DOMINGO AND THE MIDST (Meza) DON JUAN (Bozon, Fr) THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS (van Groeningen/Vandermeersch, It) ELVIS (Luhrmann, Aus) ENYS MEN (Jenkin, UK) EO (Skolimowski, Pol) EXTERIOR NIGHT (Bellocchio, It) FALCON LAKE (Le Bon) FEMINIST RIPOSTE (Perennes/Depardon, Fr) FINAL CUT (Hazanavicius, Fr) THE FIVE DEVILS (Mysius) FUMER FAIT TOUSSER (Dupieux) FUNNY PAGES (Kline, US) GERARD PHILIPE, LE DERNIER HIVER DU CID (Jeudy, Fr) GLORIOUS REVOLUTION (Novikova, UK) GOD'S CREATURES (Holmer/Davis, Ire) GODLAND (Palmason, Ice) THE GREEN PERFUME (Pariser) HARKA (Nathan, Tun) HARKIS (Faucon) HOLY SPIDER (Abbasi, Den) HOMMAGE D'UNE FILLE A SON PERE (Cisse, Mal) HUMANS ARE DUMBER WHEN CRAMMED UP TOGETHER (Fernandez, Fr) HUNT (Lee, Kor) THE INNOCENT (Garrel, Fr) IRMA VEP (Assayas) JANE CAMPION, CINEMA WOMAN (Bertuccelli, Fr) JERRY LEE LEWIS: TROUBLE IN MIND (Coen) JOYLAND (Sadiq, Pak) KINSHIP (Kadoori, Isr) THE LAST MOVIE STARS (Hawke, US) LEILA'S BROTHERS (Roustaee) LIQUID BREAD (Bednarikova, Svk) LOVE ACCORDING TO DALVA (Nicot, Fr) |
A MALE (Hernandez) MASQUERADE (Bedos) MEN (Garland,UK) METRONOM (Belc) MISTIDA (Nhaga, Por) MOONAGE DAYDREAM (Morgen, Ger) MORE THAN EVER (Atef, Fr) MOTHER AND SON (Serraille, Fr) THE MOUNTAIN (Salvador) MUMLIFE (Challenger, Aus) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DESTRUCTION (Loznitsa) NAUHA (Khurana, Ind) NIGHTFALL (Bellocchio) NOS FRANGINS (Bouchareb) NOSTALGIA (Martone, It) NOVEMBRE (Jimenez) LA NUIT DU 12 (Moll, Fr) OFFICIAL FILM OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES TOKYO 2020 SIDE A (Kawase, Jpn) L'OMBRE DE GOYA PAR JEAN-CLAUDE CARRIERE (Lopez-Linares, Fr) ONE FINE MORNING (Hansen-Love) PAMFIR (Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, Ukr) PARIS MEMORIES (Winocour) THE PASS (Ginsberg, US) PATRICK DEWAERE, MY HERO (Moix, Fr) LE PETIT NICOLAS (Fredon/Massoubre, Fr) LES PIRES (Akoka/Gueret) PLAN 75 (Hayakawa, Jpn) RESTOS DO VENTO (Guedes, Por) RETURN TO SEOUL (Chou, Fr) R.M.N. (Mungiu, Rom) RODEO (Quivoron, Fr) ROMY, A FREE WOMAN (Caries/Deroudille, Fr) SALAM (Diams/Benyamina/Cisse, Fr) SCARLET (Marcello) SHOWING UP (Reichardt) SICK OF MYSELF (Borgli) THE SILENT TWINS (Smoczynska, UK) THE SILENT WHISTLE (Li, US) SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING (Dupieux, Fr) SOMEWHERE (Li, Chn) SPRING ROLL DREAM (Vu, UK) STARS AT NOON (Denis) THE STRANGER (Wright) THE SUPER 8 YEARS (Ernaux/Ernaux-Briot) TCHAIKOVSKY'S WIFE (Serebrennikov) THAT'S AMORE (Saxer, Den) THREE IN THE DRIFT OF THE CREATIVE ACT (Solanas, Arg) THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING (Miller) TOP GUN: MAVERICK (Kosinski, US) TORI AND LOKITA (Dardenne/Dardenne) TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (Ostlund, Swe) UNDER THE FIG TREE (Sehiri) UNTITLED PINE RIDGE PROJECT (Keough/Gammell) THE VAGABONDS (Droumeva, Ger) WAR PONY THE WATER (Riera) WE ARE NOT THERE TOMORROW (Klyszewicz, Pol) WILL-O'-THE-WISP (Rodrigues) | ||
74th Cannes Film Festival 6 - 17 July 2021 Opening film: ANNETTE Closing Film: OSS 117: FROM AFRICA WITH LOVE
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Palme d'Or: TITANE Grand Prix: A HERO and COMPARTMENT NO 6 Jury prize: MEMORIA and AHED'S KNEE Queer Palm: THE DIVIDE Camera d'Or: MURINA L'Oeil d'Or: A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING Director: Leos Carax (ANNETTE) Screenplay: Ryusuke Hamaguchi (DRIVE MY CAR) Actress: Renate Reinsve (THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD) Actor: Caleb Landry Jones (NITRAM) Honorary Palme d'Or: Marco Bellocchio Fipresci - Competition: DRIVE MY CAR Fipresci - Un Certain Regard: PLAYGROUND Fipresci - Parallel Sections: FEATHERS Critics' Week: FEATHERS Rising Star: Sandra Melissa Torres (AMPARO) |
Un Certain Regard: UNCLENCHING THE FISTS Un Certain Regard Jury Prize: GREAT FREEDOM Un Certain Regard - Ensemble: GOOD MOTHER Un Certain Regard - Courage: LA CIVIL Un Certain Regard - Originality: LAMB Cinefondation: THE SALAMANDER CHILD SACD - Critics' Week: OLGA SACD - Director's Fortnight: MAGNETIC BEASTS Label Europa Cinemas: A CHIARA Gan Foundation: ZERO F**KS GIVEN Palm Dog: Rose, Dora, and Snowbear (THE SOUVENIR: PART II) Palm Dog Grand Jury Prize: Sophie (RED ROCKET) and Panda (LAMB) Dogmanitarian Award: Mastercard | ||
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A HERO (Farhadi, Irn) AFTER YANG (Kogonada, US) ALI & AVA (Barnard, UK) ALINE (Lemercier, Can) ANAIS IN LOVE (Bourgeois-Tacquet, Fr) ANNETTE (Carax, Fr) BELLE (Hosoda, Jpn) BENEDETTA (Verhoeven, Fr) BERGMAN ISLAND (Hansen-Love, Swe) BETWEEN TWO WORLDS (Carrere, Fr) BRUNO REIDAL: CONFESSION OF A MURDERER (Le Port, Fr) CASABLANCA BEATS (Ayouch, Mor) CLARA SOLA (Alvarez, CR) COMPARTMENT NO 6 (Kuosmanen, Fin) COW (Arnold, UK) THE DIVIDE (Corsini, Fr) DRIVE MY CAR (Hamaguchi, Jpn) EVERYTHING WENT FINE (Ozon, Fr) FLEE (Rasmussen, Den) FRANCE (Dumont, Fr) THE FRENCH DISPATCH (Anderson, US) GREAT FREEDOM (Meise, Aut) HIT THE ROAD (Panahi, Irn) IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE (Kor) |
LAMB (Johansson, Ice) MEDUSA (Rocha, Br) MEMORIA (Weerasethakul, Col) MONEYBOYS (Yi, Tai) MOTHERING SUNDAY (Husson, UK) NEPTUNE FROST (Williams/Uzeyman, Rw) NITRAM (Kurzel, Aus) OLGA (Grappe, Swi) PARIS, 13TH DISTRICT (Audiard, Fr) PETROV'S FLU (Serebrennikov, Rus) PLAYGROUND (Wandel, Bel) PLEASURE (Thyberg, Swe) RED ROCKET (Baker, US) SMALL BODY (Samani, It) THE SOUVENIR: PART II (Hogg, UK) STILLWATER (McCarthy, US) THE SUMMIT OF THE GODS (Imbert, Fr) TITANE (Ducournau, Fr) THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (Haynes, US) VORTEX (Noe, Fr) THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (Trier, Nor) THE YEAR OF THE EVERLASTING STORM (Panahi/Poitras/et al, US) * review to come | ||
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