Who will win the Palme d’Or? Cannes closes its 77th edition today with the awards and a tribute to George Lucas. The ceremony will begin at 6.45pm. The jury of nine people chaired this year by Greta Gerwig.
The most accredited contenders at Cannes: Kapadia, Rasoulof and Baker
Among the films considered the most likely contenders, “All We Imagine As Light” by Payal Kapadia“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” by Mohammad Rasoulof and “Anora” by Sean Baker.
Mohammad Rasoulof fled Iran where he risked 8 years in prison
The film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” tells the story of an Iranian family experiencing the 2022 protests, was filmed clandestinely in Iran and includes real videos of the demonstrations. Before its debut at Cannes, Rasoulofwho faced an eight-year prison sentence, fled Iran.
He arrived in Cannes a few days ago and, on the red carpet, he held up photographs of two of his actors, Soheila Golestani And Missagh Zareh.
Kapadia’s film is the first Indian film in competition at Cannes in 30 years
“All We Imagine As Light”, the first Indian film in competition at Cannes in 30 years, instead tells the story of two nurses who form a bond in modern Mumbai. It is the second film of Kapadiaafter the documentary “A Night of Knowing Nothing”.
“Anora” by Sean Baker among the films competing in the awards ceremony
“Anora”, by the American director of “The Florida Project”, Sean Baker, tells of a Brooklyn prostitute who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, sparking a farcical rush to annul the marriage.
The other films that got people talking
Other highly talked about works include the sci-fi epic “Megalopolis” by Francis Ford Coppolatwice winner of the Palme d’Or, the bloody body-horror satire “The Substance” by Coralie Fargeatwith Demi Mooreand “Emilia Perez” by Jacques Audiarda Spanish-language musical about a Mexican drug lord who transforms into a woman. Audiard he had already won the Palme for “Dheepan” in 2015.
Cannes gives the Palme d’Or to George Lucas
During the awards ceremony, George Lucas will receive an honorary Palme d’Or. During the festival, Cannes paid the same tribute to Meryl Streep and the Japanese Anime Factory Studio Ghibli. After the awards ceremony, the Palma winning film will be screened for the public in the Grand Théâtre Lumière.
Minervini won yesterday for best director in Un Certain Regard with “The Damned”.
Meanwhile, Italy yesterday took home the award for best director in the Un Certain Regard section thanks to “The Damned”, the first fiction feature film by Roberto Minervini. «The nice thing – said the director – is that the jurors complimented me on a story about the war (that of secession in 1861, ed.) in which there is no spectacle, no heroism, no battle nor even the enemy. This is precisely what surprised them, perhaps took them aback, but it must have remained in their memory if they remembered “The Damned” more than 10 days after its screening.” And to those who asked him why this time he chose to work on a fiction film, Minervini he replied: «To not feel like a prisoner of other people’s points of view, to make my own mistakes, to measure myself with a language that I had to somehow invent».
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