Who will win the Palme at Cannes? [2016 edition]

plz anyone but Dolan or WRefn

Mads Mikkelsen (who played in Pusher, Bleeder, Pusher II and Valhalla Rising) is on the jury, so one vote for Refn, I guess.

somewhat hopeful about Nichols tackling a period-history film of a sort, and Jarmusch (tho Adam Driver as a bus driver prob not glam enough for Palme).

ugh Dolan

yay Verhoeven

Huppert & PV is a p gonzo combo.

why the dolan hate? mommy was good.

i was going to say hopefully not the dardennes again, but it looks like all the big heavy hitters are in there, so i suppose its just one of the heavy hitters who havent won or been entered for the palme in recent memory. fingers crossed for elle and that the new farhadi is good.

the entries for the other prizes are usually more interesting than the palme anyway.

why the dolan hate?

I've seen his movies

Stoked for new Guiraudie

Mommy was the twink's worst yet.

Rooting for Maren Ade, Cristi Puiu, Kleber Menconca Filho and Alain Guiraudie.

Bookmakers say Farhadi or Almodovar, though. Almodovar apparently hurt by appearing in that controversial blockbuster: The Panama Papers.

"I've seen his movies"

lol

im rooting for almodovar. the last one wasnt so good, but hes still got it i think/hope.

would be nice to see PV win something though.

Very excited for American Honey, even if it does sound exactly like the plot to that Lana Del Rey video. No chance of her winning though. How is Jeff Nichols making so many films?

Filho and Ade are complete unknowns for me. Would people recommend them?

You should definitely check out 'Neighboring Sounds' and 'Everyone Else'

i agree

Thank you! I will certainly do so

im rooting for almodovar.

#wrongOpinions

^^^leading a wrong existence.

stuck a tenner on Farhadi

I've said it many times but I loathe Almodovar. The Guiraudie got terrible reviews, sadly. The new Dumont looks fantastic and I hope he wins.

The Maren Ade got mid-film applause. Hope the palm goes to her.

It's been SEVEN years since her last film?! tick tick tick

new jarmusch

Even by his standards it sounds boring.

u sound boring

I like Jarmusch sometimes!

is it me or this is worse Cannes fest of the past ten years or so? only hearing about disapointments.

also, the hatred of Dolan warms my heart. he really is Montreal's equivalent of Drake at the moment.

i've liked some of the acting (even) in his (bad) films, but i think the bloom may be off the twink.

Huh, from what I hear people seem pretty happy. Ade broke review record!

is it me or this is worse Cannes fest of the past ten years or so? only hearing about disapointments.

Eh? So far the Ade, Assayas and now the Mungiu are all getting rave reviews, and things like the Dumont and the Jarmusch have pleased fans of their work

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/19/graduation-review-cristian-mungiu-romania-cannes-2016

Refn's new one supposed to be terrrrible and am reading great things about J_P Leaud as a dying Louis XIV in Albert Serra's latest.

voting for Verhoeven

I've said it many times but I loathe Almodovar

un-possible!

also, the hatred of Dolan warms my heart. he really is Montreal's equivalent of Drake at the moment.

― Van Horn Street, Thursday, May 19, 2016 1

If I were 22, Heartbeats would be my favorite "youth" film. And parts of Mommy were his most sustained work. Watching him is always going to be fraught: he commingles horrible ideas and good ones like that's his intention.

good chance Toni Erdmann will win this.

people loved it, kinda commercial and Miller won't choose an "Are film" per se imo

Yeah this seems to be a better batch of films judging by reviews than the past few years... when you really had to struggle to find any positive consensus film.

What's an Are film?

Mungiu seems to be in with a good chance of doing the double.

Art Film sorry

Ah right, of course.

Raves pretty much all around for the Verhoeven.

Lol, I just noticed right now I screwed up the enddate on this.

Ken again

The 71 year old man gave the award to the 79 year old. Identity politics out of art competitions, please!

I was hoping for Aquarius or Toni Erdmann. The prizes are really the festival's achile heels.

and I say as shameless zero to a hundred ken loach fan.

None of us have seen these films (I think?) but the choices seem extremely strange. Especially the Dolan. The consensus seems that the jury choices are further from the critical opinion than they have ever been this year.

No, I don't think anyone has seen them. But a bunch of films got glowing reviews for trying something new, something strange, being a voice we haven't seen before, and the jury went with something incredibly boring and safe. Remarkably every director who's film won an award had won an award at Cannes before. Farhadi the least rewarded, The Past only won Best Actress.

Assayas might also only have won Best Actress, for Clean.

just cannot imagine the andrea arnold being esp good. why is she so overrated? why do people just eat up that kind of social brit miserablism she loves serving up repeatedly?

She fills the gap until the next Ken Loach Palme d'Or winner comes along.

I can't deal with Ken Loach movies any more, fair enough for portraying how shitty the UK benefits system is, but I can't physically bring myself to watch any more of his movies. You see one of his idealised proles, then you've seen the lot of them, and they all have hearts of gold. Sort of like the filmic equivalent of Millet's noble peasants.

the winners of the directors fortnight and intnl critics week awards are usually the better films in any case. so am looking forward to wolf and sheep and toni erdmann.

id be interested to see if arnold takes her mike leigh-style pity to the american characters in her one.

The more I look into this, the worse it looks. When the selection was announced, there was a bit of an outcry that no women of color was chosen, but I thought, who were they going to choose? Well, turns out Director's Forthnight found two, one, Sharbanoo Sadat, one the main prize of the selection, while the other Houda Benyamina, won the Camera d'Or. That's a pretty clear indictment of Un Certain Regard, at the least.

Cannes is breaking apart by sexism and racism, honestly.

cant figure out if you are bemoaning or supporting women of colour winning at cannes.

I'm bemoaning that they weren't in official selection.

oh everyone I know who works for Cannes are going to defend the woman (and non-white women) non-selection with the always hilarious argument of meritocracy, it's a lost cause. last year i was told something along the lines of 'the president of the jury is female' what else do you want. but Dolan, Assayas and Loach need more recognition.

It's not a lost cause. The meritocracy argument is obviously bullshit when films like Sean Penns The Last Face or Hazanavicius' The Search makes it through. People need to repeat this, research, spread the facts. The facts are these: Since 2000 one Palm has gone to a film that wasn't both western and directed by a male (Uncle Boonmee). 11/17 Camera d'Or awards has gone to such a film. 7/17 Golden Lions, 8/17 Golden Bears, 8/17 Golden Leopards. 8/17 Un Certain Regard Awards. Cannes is the clear extreme outlier, and it's their problem. They do not capture what's actually going on in world cinema.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/pictures/cannes-2016-posters-d-or

shame commercial posters dont look like these.

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