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

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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