“I, Daniel Blake,” a relentless argument against social injustice in England by British director Ken Loach won yesterday with the Palme d’Or top prize at Cannes. “Another world is possible and necessary!” Said the director of 79 years to receive the reward, the second Palme d’Or for his long career devoted to social cinema.
In his acceptance speech, Loach took the opportunity to launch a vibrant plea against the dangers of neoliberalism. “The world we live in is a dangerous point, the edge of a project called neoliberal austerity, which risks lead to catastrophe,” he said.
The working class in freefall is the protagonist of the disturbing mirror that tends to our time tape Loach, showing the daily ordeal of looking for a job or maintain social aid in England in crisis.
Daniel Blake (Dave Johns) is a carpenter of 59 years of the English city of Newcastle who is forced to resort to such help after suffering heart problems. Although his doctor forbade work, the system forces you to look for a job or risk losing poor attendance barely enough to live on. In his daily visit to the office serving the unemployed, he meets a single (Hayley Squires) mother also in difficulties and also caught, with her two children, in a system that crushes it.
Director who turns 80 in June, and with a long militant filmography, and confirms its basic postulate. savage capitalism plunges the individual
the young prodigy, wonder
Cannes also crowned “Juste la fin du monde,” the sixth film of the young prodigy film, Canadian Xavier Dolan, who at 27 years and against all odds won the second most important event reward, the Grand Prix .
the film, a family drama about a gay writer who learns he will die and decides to return to the family nucleus to announce it to his own, had divided international critics.
“Mommy”, his first film in competition in the official selection at Cannes, had received in 2014 the Jury Prize, although many had suggested that it would have been a good Palme.
“Everything one does in life is to be loved, to be accepted, “Dolan said tearfully. “I will make films all my life, I want to or not,” he said.
“American Honey”, a film that portrays an American youth in search of the American dream, British director Andrea Arnold, was awarded the Jury Prize.
Starring Shia LaBeouf, this road movie follows the journey of a group of young people touring the US selling magazine subscriptions door to door, between parties until dawn and stories love.
Meanwhile, the Romanian Cristian Mungiu for “bacalaureat” and Frenchman Olivier Assayas for “Personal Shopper” took the award for Best director at the Cannes Film Festival.
“bacalaureat” Cristian Mungiu depicts a Romanian society weighed down by corruption, while “Personal Shopper” signed by Olivier Assayas, tells the story of a young woman who tries to come into contact with the ghost of his brother.
The performances, another treasure
The award for best actress was taken by the Philippine Jaclyn Jose, 52, for his role in “Ma’Rosa” a cry against corruption signed by compatriot Brillante Mendoza.
On the side of the actors, the award went to Iranian Shahab Hosseini, 42, for his role as a theater actor in “the Salesman”.
This drama of the Iranian Asghar Farhadi on the middle class Tehran also took the award for best screenplay.
French Jean-Pierre Léaud, fetish actor François Truffaut and starred in “The death of Louis XIV” the Spanish Albert Serra, was awarded a Palme d’Or which rewards his career. And although Pedro Almodóvar went for the fifth time without Palme d’Or to which he aspired to “Juliet”, another Spanish, Catalan Juanjo Giménez, the Palme d’Or was the short film with his film “Timecode”.
Kleber Mendonça Filho Brazilian, director of the film “Aquarius” starring Sonia Braga, was another who left Cannes empty-handed at the end of this festival full of surprises.
Argentina was left with the desire
The film “Hymyilevä harvest” ( “The happiest day in the life of Ollie Makki”), the Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen, won the prize “Un certain Regard” section at parallel to the official competition at Cannes, relegating “long night of Francisco Sanctis” Argentines Andrea Testa and Francisco Marquez.
The jury, chaired by Swiss actress Marthe Keller also joined the Mexican Diego Luna, noted that the film is “an incredible originality, showing how you can be happy without money.” The film deals with the life of a boxer who their environment wants to become a star, but he prefers a quiet life away from the spotlight with his girlfriend.
Meanwhile, the prize jury She took him “Harmonium” Japanese Koji Fukada, by “portraying a normal family torn apart from within by guilt”. But the biggest applause was for Viggo Mortensen American actor and film crew “Captain Fantastic” directed by Matt Ross, who took the award for best director of this section.
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