Who will win the Palme at Cannes? [2015 edition]

on Lanthimos... "A classically styled, science fiction-inspired oddity that recalls both François Truffaut‘s Fahrenheit 451 and the ’60s British TV show The Prisoner in its sobre magical realist tone and acute observations concerning the human condition.” (Adam Woodward)

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-cannes-2015-yorgos-lanthimoss-the-lobster

The slate's frontloaded with the weird this year.

Def a little more excited for Lobster than Tale of Tales tho.

And could not be less excited for Gaspar Noe's latest.

enjoyed Manohla Dargis' passing ref to X Dolan today as "Canadian brat-auteur"

should be brateur, no?

i think you would serve that with poutine.

are you a Donaliste Morbs?

Can't stand his films, or the person himself for that matter. But hey i'm a young montreal filmmaker so I guess it's jealousy.

apparently there has been some booing at Gus van Sant's press projection. i don't know what drives a person to boo a film this way but whatever, the Cannes tradition must live.

a Dolaniste? no, i think a couple of his films are OK but these last two were slappable.

Dolan = brauteur, Noe = broteur

the new Lanthimos sounds p ideal to me

Yes.

So apparently jumping on Naomi Kawase is def a Cannes meme now.

http://www.indiewire.com/article/why-does-the-cannes-film-festival-keep-programming-naomi-kawases-movies-20150517

Still the Water was bad, but I don't get what makes her significantly worse than recent Kore-eda, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa has another in competition as well despite Real being one of the craziest awful films I've ever seen.

In non-award Cannes news, Tom Ford's second movie is getting set up:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cannes-tom-fords-nocturnal-animals-795650

So this poll is closing after the awards are announced afaict. Bookies in London say Lobster is the frontrunner atm, but they have Gus Van Sant in something other than last place so.

Noe's getting pretty tepid reviews.

Good.

Yeah. And The Assassin is getting raves. Hou for the win.

Didn't realize he's never won. Yes, him for the win.

(Seven at-bats!)

He has won the lion, so he's not completely without wins, but his film seems awesome and also the one that needs palm-boost the most.

so far it would seem to be btwn Hou, Lanthimos and Haynes.

there was a lot of love for the Nemes too tho so idk

Yeah, one of those four, I think. Nemes seems really cool as well, but he already has Danish distribution, so selfishly, I want something else to win...

But hey, watch the Coen's hand the palm to Villeneuve, or something silly like that.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/love-cannes-review-797320

Indeed, by Noe's standards, especially compared to his last Enter the Void, Love is pretty innocuous, hardly shocking at all. This may seem like a surprising thing to say about a movie that features a tight close-up of a penis ejaculating into 3-D space at its audience.

can't wait to see this film with my mother

Son of Saul looks incredible. I'll choose that as the winner. Favourable comparisons with Klimov's Come and See which is possibly my favourite film of all time.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/may/15/son-of-saul-review-an-outstanding-excoriating-look-at-evil-in-auchwitz

Miguel Gomes' new one sounds like absolutely amazing. 6 hours, collection of vignettes, both fictional and documentary, in 35mm and 16mm, filmed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul's cinematographer. Can't wait to see it.

http://www.indiewire.com/article/the-most-ambitious-movie-at-this-years-cannes-film-festival-is-arabian-nights-20150522

yeah, that's the one (aside from the hou) that i am most curious about.

I'd never make it thru.

Get 1x break after 3 hours or so.

The first awards are in. I really don't understand what is going on in Director's Forthnight or Critic's Week (is the Nespresso prize more prestigious than the Canal+ prize?) but here's what won in Un Certain Regard:

Un Certain Regard Award – Rams by Grímur Hákonarson
Un Certain Regard Jury Prize – The High Sun by Dalibor Matanić
Un Certain Regard Award for Best Director – Kiyoshi Kurosawa for Journey to the Shore
Prix Un Certain Talent – The Treasure by Corneliu Porumboiu
Un Certain Regard Special Prize for Promising Future:
Nahid by Ida Panahandeh
Masaan by Neeraj Ghaywan

Iceland for the win, there. A bit of Danish money involved, so the media here is acting like we won it. Iceland is kinda winning a lot at the moment, Benedikt Erlingson's very good Of Horses and Men won the Nordic Film Prize last year, and Dagur Kari's Virgin Mountain won three prizes in Tribeca last month.

Nothing for Joe.

Well, he won UCR in 2002, and has won Jury Prize and Golden Palm in competition. I can understand if jury wanted to award someone new. Except that Kiyoshi Kurosawa has also won a lot of prizes, and his latest films have been pretty horribly looking, so especially a directing award seems odd. An interesting sign.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Oh I'm not saying joe should have won anything. I've not seen the films, after all. I'm just noting the fact.

With regard to Carol my problem
Is that I feel like I've already seen the film, will know exactly how it will pan out before I've even seen it. I mean I know this is daft but I say this as a huge Todd Haynes fan.

i just read the book, and he has to pull some surprises

I haven't followed much this year, which are the big contenders?

Carol - Todd Haynes
Son of Saul - László Nemes
The Assassin - Hou Hsiao-Hsien
The Lobster - Yorgos Lanthimos

in roughly that order

oh I see La Tierra y la Sombre has won the Camera D'Or, which suggests Son of Saul is getting the big one

Grand Prix: Son of Saul - László Nemes

Best Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Best Screenplay: "Chronic," Written by Michel Franco

Camera d'Or (Best First Feature): "La Tierra y la Sombre," Directed by Cesar Acevedo

Jury Prize: "The Lobster," Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

Best Actress: Rooney Mara for "Carol" and Emmanuelle Bercot for "Mon Roi" (Shared Prize)

Best Actor: Vincent Lindon for "The Measure of a Man"

Palme d'Or (Short Film): "Waves '98," Directed by Ely Dagher

Carol for the Palme then

nuh uh
it won best actress

it'll be son of saul at this point afaict

but it just won second prize

ha ha, okay

dheepan? isn't that literally the only remaining contender?

there you go

weird

nepofrancophilia

no one cheat in the poll now

Sea of Trees (Gus Van Sant) 1 vote

Zhang-ke, one day, oh one day you will win it.

this shoulda won

lulzy jury

Both Hou and Jia has a Lion, but yeah. They're more than deserving of a Palm as well.

Strange choice.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I gave Nemes my vote, fwiw.

Me too

i can only imagine that shithead Jeffrey Wells blowing a gasket on this one

Both Hou and Jia has a Lion, but yeah. They're more than deserving of a Palm as well.

― Frederik B, Sunday, May 24, 2015 4:14 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Especially since a lot of people are going for the 'lifetime achievement' angle considering apparently it's far from Audiard's best.

seems cool that nic jaar did the score