Cannes 2014 - The Awards

Jane Campion, the Jury President, said she was afraid she’ll need to go to the toilet during Winter Sleep screening, being a film so long, three hours sixteen minutes, but watching it, she said that she’ll stay two hours more. Along with the other members, she has been impressed by the poetry, the political complex situation and the female characters. I haven’t watched the movie, but I can’t wait. It’ll be launched in August.

Cannes 2014 Official Poster

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I know, I’ve started this post with the middle, or even with the tail. I have just seen the jury press conference video and I have been impressed. I couldn’t bring up myself to publish all these news two days ago, but they are here for the record, anyway. Palme D’Or has been received by the Turkish Drama Kış Uykusu, meaning Winter Sleep in English, by the already known at Cannes, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, a nice director who already changed his imdb avatar. I wish I was there, to watch them all, Leviathan, Foxcatcher, Lost River, Goodbye to Language, Mr. Turner, Maps to the Stars, or Clouds of Sils Maria.

Winter Sleep – Melisa Sözen

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The winners are as follow:

Palme d’Or

Winter Sleep, dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Grand Prize

Le Meraviglie (The Wonders), dir: Alice Rohrwacher

Best Director

Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher

Jury Prize

– Tie
Mommy, dir: Xavier Dolan
Goodbye To Language, dir: Jean-Luc Godard

Best Screenplay

Andrey Zvyagintsev, Oleg Negin, Leviathan

Best Actress

Julianne Moore, Maps To The Stars

Best Actor

Timothy Spall, Mr Turner

Camera d’Or

Party Girl, dirs: Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis

Short Film

Leidi, dir: Simón Mesa Soto

Special Mention

Aïssa, dir: Clément Trehin-Lalanne
Ja Vi Elsker, dir: Hallvar Witzo

The rumor is that Ryan Gosling‘s debut as a director has been a flop, but they love him anyway. Another flop has been The Search, made by The Artist‘s director, Michel Hazanavicius.

I can’t say I liked any other video from the Festival youtube channel, so I have chosen this one, created before the festival’s start, with the ten most anticipated films.

If I’d liked a festival video, be sure it would have been here. I’ve seen Quentin Tarantino all over the place :). He was invited with the crew of Pulp Fiction, and he was very proud. He said that he feel like Elite, being a member of the chosen group of directors who won the Palme D’Or, and he preferred to be a member, rather than not. They celebrated twenty years since Pulp Fiction won.

The critics commented more or less nasty about this festival’s edition, as being less spectacular. They can’t have every year the luck of a Lars Von Trier incident, can they? And by the way, that movie was a flop too, but it attracted attention with the press conference and with Kirsten Dunst‘s moon-bathing. It wasn’t the Moon, I know, it was Melancholia, the blue planet.

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