CANNES.- was not among the favorites, but Jacques Audiard was left yesterday with the Palme d’Or of the 68 “festival Dhepaan , about a soldier who escapes civil war in Sri Lanka and is installed with a woman and a girl (which poses as his family) in a nearby tower blocks to Paris, where he will discover that the supposed paradise to which he aspired is not.
The talented director of films released in Argentina as Watch men fall , Read my lips and The beat of my heart (also A Prophet ) gave thus a new Golden Palm for French films (in recent years gained from The life of Adèle to Between the walls ), whose very broad representation had been quite challenged this year by critics around the world.
That was not the only award for local production, as Vincent Lindon was recognized as best actor for his lucida interpretation La loi du Marché , Stephane Brize, a man who, after many months unemployed, gets a job as a security guard in a supermarket, which must report to clients and co- work.
The award for best actress was shared by other French figure, Emmanuelle Bercot ( Mon roi , Maïwenn) and Rooney Mara ( Carol Todd Haynes), who surprisingly “moved” to his co-star, the highly publicized Cate Blanchett here.
Son of Saul , controversial film about the Holocaust filmed by newcomer Hungarian Laszlo Nemes, took the Grand Jury Prize; Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien received the statuette for Best Director for his remarkable historical martial arts epic The Assassin (favorite of critics). For its part, the Jury Award went to Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos for its futuristic tragicomedy The Lobster
The Latin American cinema was left with two major awards. Best Screenplay for the young Mexican Michel Franco by Chronic , shot in Los Angeles starring Tim Roth; and the Camera d’Or for best debut of the festival for the Colombian The land and shadow , Augusto Cesar Acevedo.
The closing ceremony by -conducida French actor Lambert Wilson had this year an impression quite similar to Hollywood’s Oscar awards, with musical choreography, live songs and a deserved tribute greeted by the audience standing in the Lumière Room: Palme d’Or to the path to the legendary French director Agnes Varda (Cleo from 5 to 7, Vagabond law, The Beaches of Agnès).
Meanwhile, in Un Certain Regard winners were the Rams, the Icelandic Grímur Hákonarson (GP); The High Sun, the Croatian Dalibor Matani ?; Journey to the Shore, Japanese Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Best Director); Treasure, the Romanian Corneliu Porumboiu; Masaan, Neeraj Indian Ghaywan and Nahid, Ida Iranian Panahandeh.
Beyond the inevitable controversy that triggered the announcement of official history (a cinephile each year “sport”), the truth is this 68 “edition left several interesting aspects for analysis.
Cannes, it is known, is in the sights of all. It is the most important and powerful in the world festival and, as such, is the first choice. As every year offers a limited selection officer about 60 films (some twenty titles in competition, out of competition so many and about 20 in Un Certain Regard), many more movies that refuses to accept that. And when one of the chosen do not like (for example, The Sea of Trees, Gus Van Sant), all his detractors remember those who were left out.
In this regard, Fortnight sidebar benefited precisely by the “discards” programmers official. Thus, it could have several jewels (the trilogy of The Thousand and One Nights, the Portuguese Miguel Gomes, and the French Trois souvenirs jeunesse ma, Arnaud Desplechin, and L’Ombre des femmes, of Philippe Garrel), but also chose valuable films of the Colombian Ciro Guerra (The embrace of the snake), the Dutch Magnus von Horn (The Here After), the Turkish Deniz Gamze Ergüven (Mustang) and US Jeremie Saulnier (Green Room).
Of course, Cannes is not limited to screening films, but also to market them in its giant Marché du Film (increasingly dependent on business with China and the agreements with streaming services on demand and Netflix) and can not live without their parties and glamor that brought both international stars (paraded down the red carpet Cate Blanchett, Emma Stone, Charlize Theron, Natalie Portman, Matthew McConaughey, Benicio del Toro and Tom Hardy) and local (Marion Cotillard, Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu) .
While the Argentine cinema films did not have this year in the official sections (in 2014 had counted on wild and Jauja Stories), double recognition of the gang, Santiago Mitre (Grand Prix of the Week Critics and prestigious award from the International Federation of Film Critics), left a very favorable balance, to which we must add, among other things the presence of three short films in different sections (one in the main) and display two films restored by its makers to support and laboratory Incaa Cinecolor: The official story of Luis Puenzo, and South, Pino Solanas. Deserved recognition of the Cannes Classics section two unavoidable films of national production. .
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