CANNES IN THE CAN
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They're done in France. The 67th Cannes Film Festival came to a close Sunday with re-screenings of films from throughout the week. Saturday evening the Jane Campion-led Palme jury announced its choices for prizes:
Palme d'Or: "Winter Sleep" dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Grand Prix: "The Wonders" dir: Alice Rohrwacher
Jury Prize: (Tie) Goodbye to Language" dir; Jean-Luc Godard and "Mommy" dir: Xavier Dolan
Director: Bennett Miller, "Foxcatcher"
Screenplay: "Leviathan"
Best Actress: Julianne Moore, "Maps to the Stars"
Best Actor: Timothy Spall, "Mr. Turner"
Un Certain Regard prizes included:
UCR Prize: "White God" dir: Kornel Mundruczo
Jury Prize: Turist (Force Majeure) dir: Ruben Ostland
Special Prize: "Salt of the Earth" dir: Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribiero Salgado
Ensemble: "Party Girl"
Actor: David Gulpilil, "Charlie's Country"
Check the complete list of all prizes for all sections here from Variety:
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/winter-sleep-wins-palme-dor-cannes-1201191262/
THE CANNES CRITIQUE
Here are the final critical compilations for the 67th Cannes Film Fest with the top three films listed for each source:
Ioncinema:
1) Two Days, One Night
2) (tie) Mr. Turner
2) (tie) Winter Sleep
http://www.ioncinema.com/news/film-festivals/2014-cannes-critics-panel-day-9-assayas-doubles-down-with-sils-maria-zvyagintsev-drinks-to-sweet-tragic-notes-with-leviathan
From http://cannes-rurban.rhcloud.com/2014
1) Goodbye to Language
2) Winter Sleep
3) Two Days, One Night
From http://www.todaslascriticas.com.ar/cannes
1) Goodbye to Language
2) Winter Sleep
3) Clouds of Sils Maria
And from http://criticsroundup.com/cannes-2014/
1) (tie) Two Days, One Night
1) (tie) Wild Things
3) Goodbye to Language
Critically, the big winners seem to have been: Godard's "Goodbye to Language" (Jury Prize), "Winter Sleep" (Palme d'Or) and "Two Days, One Night" (bupkes). The Dardennes snub seems curious. I would have thought Cotillard was a lock for Best Actress if the jury wasn't awarding the film an overall prize.
"Out of Competition" films that did well in critical analysis:
From the Un Certain Regard section both "The Blue Room" and "Juaja" did very well with critics...neither were prize winners.
"How to Train Your Dragon 2", "Silver Watered-Syria Self Portrait", "The Owners", "Maidan", "Cold in July", "Gett" , "National Gallery", "A Hard Day", "Mange Tes Mort", "Le Counte De La Princesse Kaguya", "P'tit Quinquin", "It Follows", "Red Army" and "The Kindergarten Teacher" all received steady critical acclaim.
CANNESALYSIS
And after the two weeks at Cannes are done...what do we know vis-a-vis the 41st Telluride Film Festival. Mostly that the films that I thought were likely are probably still likely. The acquisitions of Sony Pictures Classics of "Leviathan", "Jimmy's Hall", "Saint Laurent" and "Wild Tales" during the festival raises their T-ride profile. As of yesterday, SPC had also acquired "Salt of the Earth".
Going into Cannes, I had been pointing at certain films that, assuming they played well, had a reasonably good Telluride profile. It seems to me that "Mr. Turner" and "Two days, One Night" fit that bill. Through the course of the I think "Leviathan" and "Red Army" both became very real possibilities.
I suspect that both Dolan's "Mommy" and Cronenberg's "Maps to the Stars" will exclusive to the Toronto fest. I don't have any insider info, it just feels that way to me.
"Foxcatcher" remains something of an enigma. It all depends on how SPC perceives its Oscar chances as a result of a Telluride play and the expectation that should they play the film at Telluride that it will play Toronto in a less-than -prime slot.
Of course, they could chose to bypass Toronto altogether as "Nebraska", "Inside Llewyn Davis" and "All is Lost" did last year (all three played in Cannes as well). Though you could make a strong case that that strategy didn't work particularly well.
As to Oscar repercussions...from Cannes...."Foxcatcher" and "Mr. Turner" seemed to be the most likely films with that potential before and after the fest. I expect a number of films to be a part of the Foreign Language film Oscar convo depending on what countries make which choices. For example, "Leviathan" seems like a no-brainer as the choice for Russia in terms of quality but its critique of the Mother country is not likely to sit well in Putin's "throwback" Russia.
It'll be fun to watch this summer.
SPEAKING OF SUMMER
I'll be back to a six-post-a week schedule beginning next Monday, June 2. Let the full tilt Telluride obsession begin!
More on Thursday!
