Who will win the Palme at Cannes? (2017)

If the ACT-UP film is anywhere near as good as Entre Le Murs/The Class then I'm very excited to see it.

I didn't even vote in this lol

Me neither ha

Voted Kawase, just because that would be the funniest winner. Also, I like her films. Hoping for the Hong, though, which apparently Will Smith gave a standing ovation.

idgaf about fests i dont attend

Then why don't you fuck off?

I feel like I explain this every year, but who wins what in Cannes pretty much defines what I'll get to see when in Copenhagen. Small cultural market = these things really, really matter.

the depends on your definition of "mattering"

for the same reason you dont stfu fred

you quintessence of pretentious ass

Well. yeah...

Lol, are you quoting the period film thread?

Anyways, the side competition are giving out awards:
UCR:
“UN CERTAIN REGARD” PRIZE

LERD (UN HOMME INTEGRE – A MAN OF INTEGRITY) by Mohammad Rasoulof

PRIZE FOR BEST ACTRESS
JASMINE TRINCA for FORTUNATA by Sergio Castellitto

PRIZE FOR THE BEST POETIC NARRATIVE
BARBARA de Mathieu Amalric

PRIZE FOR BEST DIRECTION
Taylor Sheridan for WIND RIVER

JURY PRIZE
LAS HIJAS DE ABRIL (APRIL’S DAUGHTER) by Michel Franco

Quinzaine:

Art Cinema Award

“The Rider” by Chloé Zhao

SACD Prize

“Lover For a Day,” by Philippe Garrel

and

“Let the Sunshine In,” by Claire Denis

Europa Cinemas Label

“A Ciambra,” by Jonas Carpignano

Lol, are you quoting the period film thread?

Not a period film thread, but a pre-menstrual one maybe.

cinephiles fighting.

no wonder we live in a world where apparently netflix and cannes can't seem to cooperate.

everything is going to shit.

lol @ movie not in this poll winning the palme

We don't know yet! Still rooting for Kawase!!

Oh. Oh well...

Coppola?

Palme d’Or: Ruben Östlund – The Square
Gran Prix: Robin Campillo – 120 Beats Per Minute
Jury Prize: Andrey Zvyagintsev – Loveless
Best Director: Sofia Coppola – The Beguiled
Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix – You Were Never Really Here
Best Actress: Diane Kruger – In the Fade
Best Screenplay: Yorgos Lanthimos – The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here

Camera d’Or: Léonor Sérraille – Jeune Femme

Coppola first woman in 56 years to win for Best Director. Another embarrassing fact.

can't imagine too many women have won the screenplay award either, but better late than never

I think Lynne Ramsay is number four, but the award hasn't been given out each year, and also the last time was Tatiana Niculescu Bran in 2012. So it's not quite the same.

The embarrassment is more the fact that women has won the Grand Prix a couple of times, and Andrea Arnold alone has three Jury Awards, so they definitely make film that the juries like, but somehow never get the directing award... That's a quite typical unconscious misogynistic bias thingy, where something a woman has done was very good, but it probably wasn't really her that did it, you know?

that embarrassment exists throughout the entire film industry (maybe less so in Denmark?) and Cannes, like so many institutions at the top of the food chain, aren't willing to make any progress.

and not only for directors. pretty much every role in the industry except hair stylist and make up is riddled with that sexist bias.

Oh, it's especially awful in Denmark at the moment, unfortunately.

So yeah, I agree. But Cannes is even more awful than they could be. Venice, Berlin, Locarno, they've at least given a few awards to women. Cannes just bumbles along, putting Sean Penn and Jacques Doillon in the main competition, then saying there is no room for women because they only choose the best of the best.

Tragic how the 'but is she qualified?' argument is represented in all circumstances, in all industries.