Who will win the Palme at Cannes? [2021 edition]

Stoked for this. Hope my boy Joachim Trier comes good with the third in his Oslo trilogy.

lmao that Sean Penn is getting another shot because of course he is

THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD [Sean (en 12 Chapitres)]

lol

lord knows if this might end up the last Verhoeven, gotta give him a vote whenever I can

Happy 20th anniversary to Nanni Moretti "stealing" the Palme.

Chatter online about Cannes poaching Venice titles now.

write-in vote for Aline

My brain is short circuiting pic.twitter.com/NnZ7OR1x0x

— Chris Feil (@chrisvfeil) June 3, 2021

lmao @ "a fiction freely inspired by the life of Celine Dion", just... wow

"a fiction freely inspired by the heroism of the true inspiration behind the songs based on the real events of a fictional life that suggested the fiction inspired by the true marketing strength of a famous celebrity brand"

Did Godard finally retire?

Best final post-1969 film by someone who won the Palme d'Or between 1949 and 1969

have no idea what to vote for but it’s nice to see Mia Hansen-Løve and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi in the competition. Sean Baker and Nadav Lapid too

Julia Ducournau’s Raw was memorable but I also kind of hated it

looking forward to After Yang (Kogonada), Moneyboys (CB Yi), Lamb (Valdimar Jóhansson), and Blue Bayou (Justin Chon) in Un Certain Regard

also The Innocents (Eskil Vogt)

I thought there was a new Claire Denis ready to go?

maybe not finished...though I have wondered why she has not been more of a presence there. Of her many great films, only one - her first film Chocolat in 1988 - was in the main competition

Yes, as I understand she's always preffered to be submitted in Un Certain Regard. Does anyone know why?

from what I’ve read, with 13 or so pretty amazing feature films under her belt, she has only been to Cannes three times - in the main competition with Chocolat in 1988, then in Un Certain Regard with Bastards in 2013, then with Let the Sunshine In in Directors’ Fortnight in 2017, where she won the SACD prize

it’s hard to imagine they would reject her submissions at this point, so I wonder if she just doesn’t want to be in a film festival like Cannes

She was the head Juror in UCR in 2010 as well. The prize went to Hahaha by Hong Sang-soo.

that was the same year Uncle Boonmee won the Palme, which I cannot believe was 11 years ago.

still want to see Hahaha

Julia Ducournau’s Raw was memorable but I also kind of hated it

― Dan S, Friday, June 4, 2021 9:23 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

same

Starts next week.

Are votes in this poll based on anything more than guesswork founded in past accomplishments?

Yes which is why Annette will win because Sparks, the end. (I may be biased.)

that's how I vote in every poll xp

I really hope Joe's film isn't some lost in translation misstep but I'll be amazed if it isn't.

https://www.indiewire.com/2020/02/apichatpong-weerasethakul-tilda-swinton-memoria-1202211495/

that article gave me some hope, but I agree

I liked the most recent years’ Cannes polls that closed a day or two before the end of the festival, where we had a chance to read about the content of the films and peoples’ experience with them before voting

Oh, does this end before it's started?!

V weird choice, maybe an accident tho.

Why is Mia Hansen-Løve doing a movie w/ the same title as a quite famous, criterionized documentary?

Oh, does this end before it's started?!

I can't remember when it's usually set to close but I vote before the festival opens anyway - it's more fun that way/I wouldn't have the restraint not to.

I thought I used to close polls before the reviews started coming in, in the past.

The past three polls (2017, 2018, 2019) each ended 2 days before the closing ceremony. It doesn’t really matter, our winner is never the Palme winner - except in 2016, when the poll ended 2 days after the close of the festival! I just have liked reading the discussion that has occurred here during the festival as the films have been revealed, but there’s no reason why that can’t happen after the poll closes

thought Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s A Screaming Man which won the Jury Prize in 2010 was interesting, wondering about Lingui

it looks like most of the films will have two screenings, at night and the following morning, although a few that will be shown in the middle of the day will only have one, including some I’m most looking forward to - Drive My Car, Red Rocket, Memoria

the Ayouch film sounds great, High and Loud is a much better title than Casablanca Beats

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Neil Young’s Film Lounge odds:

9-2  Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5-1  A Hero (Asghar Farhadi)
11-2  Casablanca Beats (Nabil Ayouch)
8-1  Annette (Leos Carax)
8-1  The Story of My Wife (Enyedi Ildikó)

plus the rest:

https://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/reviews/palme2021/

ended up voting for Ahed's Knee because I loved Synonyms

I see that site has been updated

Betting on carax

Sparks are repulsive, imo, and Holy Motors was terrible. I Like Carax for the most part though.

sparks are cool and holy motors was a lot of fun but I'm only tentatively excited so far for some reason

I'm not betting on Annette being good necessarily! I'm betting on it hitting the right moment of the zeitgeist. I imagine at the worst it will at least be an interesting trainwreck.

as far as I know the Cannes juries have only awarded the Palme to two other musicals, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg in 1964 and Dancer In the Dark in 2000

there does seem to be a lot of excitement around Annette though, a lot of stills are being shared on twitter

Sparks are repulsive, imo

You're fired or something

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Cannes Launches With COVID Confusion and ‘Disgusting’ Saliva Tests That Require Festival-Goers to Spit in a Tube https://t.co/YM7DIFFHs3

— Variety (@Variety) July 5, 2021

I'm a Sparks partisan, but it would be ironic if the film wound up being their Lulu rather than a late-career triumph.

i.e. a high-visibility, experimental flop from a venerable cult artist.

As it happens

We are on Minute 5 of the ANNETTE standing ovation and Adam Driver has begun smoking a cigarette pic.twitter.com/F56r0W0nGL

— Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) July 6, 2021

2017 through 2019 I really enjoyed following Cannes via daily podcasts but the only one I've found so far this year is Indiewire's Screen Talk with Eric Kohn. Anyone aware of any others?

I like Eric Kohn's screen talks. I have been looking at #Cannes2021 on twitter and the links

disappointing to learn Annette goes the live-singing route, so stupid

I've tried posting three times now

wanted to say I like the idea of live singing, don't know enough about musicals to know what is wrong with that

Dunno either, everything Carax does is extreme.

It's extremely rude to start smoking in a cinema auditorium though.

Anyway the red carpet looks ruled.

✨#RedSteps ANNETTE by Leos CARAX – Opening film#Cannes2021 #Competition pic.twitter.com/BB4pdWhUUE

— Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) July 6, 2021

Morning from #Cannes in NYC. Joanna Hogg’s SOUVENIR: PART II is a stunning, film-within-a-film exercise on grief that both completes & surpasses the wisdom & style of its predecessor. It’s a B-side to luxuriate in. Head over heels for this one. My review: https://t.co/P1fBPRBqnP

— Tomris Laffly (@TomiLaffly) July 8, 2021

have been reading the reviews of Trier's The Worst Person In the World and Lapid's Ahed's Knee and they both sound interesting

It's extremely rude to start smoking in a cinema auditorium though.

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, July 6, 2021 6:52 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

They're in France

maybe he was making a point, but it still seems kind of inappropriate

In Quebec in the 1940s, a dropped cigarette burned down a cinema with children in it. To prevent this from happening again, the government instituted a ban in cinemas... on children!

It looks like an “I’m in France; I must make the most of my chance to light up in a cinema” move to me.

In Quebec in the 1940s, a dropped cigarette burned down a cinema with children in it. To prevent this from happening again, the government instituted a ban in cinemas... on children!

And thus Le Gros Drafthouse de Alamo was born.

xp or maybe an “I’m a star now and you can’t touch me” move

although it may have been more light-hearted than that

reviews of Annette making it sound powerfully Not For Me

then again I'm also one of like 5 ppl left cold by The Souvenir so what do I know

I liked two of her earlier films but didn't like The Souvenir at all, neither as a relationship film nor an artist-finds-her-way film. I may still try part 2 eventually.

Tom Burke's performance is incredible. Other than that it's hard to care about.

The character was so feckless that the acting became invisible to me, which is perhaps a testatment to it.

i did not like the souvenir @ all either, in fact walked out of the theater. maybe all 5 of its detractors are here

I do think fwiw that there was ample talent in evidence in its making, I was just allergic to it for a variety of pretty guessable reasons

I absolutely loved it, just to redress the balance a little. I can see how she might be seen as feckless if you look at it one way, but I wouldn't ascribe her any personality traits, because the film is a memory of events and self-assessment of ones character has no real part in that. I loved its elliptical narrative, I loved being drawn into her world at the same time as being unable to escape the dread of the outsider, I loved the cinematography, and of course I loved Tom Burke.

I keep wanting to introduce my wife to it, thinking she'd love it too, but I worry that if I'm wrong I'll be depressed that I don't know her as well as I thought.

I have no idea why The Souvenir is so polarizing (not just here). Really liked its verisimilitude.

The Joachim Trier film is getting raves. I have to say my brain has gone to sleep before the end of both reviews of it I've read so I hope it's better than even the raves suggest because the subject matter couldn't be less interesting to me. Maybe it's a revelation, though.

Can see that, although after watching Reprise and Oslo, August 31st, I’m interested in seeing another film with Anders Danielsen Lie

A lot of the praise has been for Renate Reinsve’s performance

it's kind of how I felt reading about Ozon's Everything Went Fine

I’m interested in seeing another film with Anders Danielsen Lie

Oh wow, I thought he retired fro acting to become a doctor, so I'm pleased he's still at it.

I have to say my brain has gone to sleep before the end of both reviews of it I've read so I hope it's better than even the raves suggest because the subject matter couldn't be less interesting to me.

Oh wow, I see what you mean. Oslo, August 31st is one of my favourite films but … no

https://cine-vue.com/2021/07/cannes-2021-the-worst-person-in-the-world-review.html

https://letterboxd.com/daveyjenkins/film/drive-my-car/

[Five stars]
The bar is set for 2021/2010s.

Oh la la! #Cannes2021 pic.twitter.com/z13B3zY8JM

— SPARKS (@sparksofficial) July 11, 2021

enjoyed reading Jenkins' review of Drive My Car in Little White Lies, also Ehrlich's review in Indiewire

https://lwlies.com/festivals/drive-my-car-first-look-review/

https://www.indiewire.com/2021/07/drive-my-car-movie-review-1234650289/

Good news for Sean Penn – The Last Face is no longer the worst film to screen in competition at Cannes https://t.co/3iG4bM4Xnl

— Little White Lies (@LWLies) July 12, 2021

https://lwlies.com/festivals/flag-day-cannes-film-festival-review/

lol Bradshaw gave it 4/5, but he is a joke.

one of the trades raved as well, so it's almost assuredly shit

But as an actor he’s still got the chops: a fierce masculine presence, a buzzard-like watchfulness always liable to break into a scornful grimace or lethal grin. His seductive address to the camera is almost unrivalled.

lol what a pitiful brown-noser

Does anyone have a link to the best scorecard?

I don't know if it's the best (I remember in one year keeping track of two or three before finding some astonishingly comprehensive aggregator on a website) but here's the latest from Ion Cinema/Mubi:

https://www.ioncinema.com/news/film-festivals/2021-cannes-critics-panel-day-5-juho-kuosmanen-compartment-no-6

https://www.ioncinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-cannesday6-large.jpg

Ah, here's that website. Maybe a little too comprehensive. I don't know how they manage to find and collate that many reviews:

http://cannes-ratings.herokuapp.com/Cannes2021

Ah yes, I remember that site now. Thank you!

That scoresheet shows Drive My car get 14.5 from 4 reviewers and somehow gives the average of at as 3 when, in fact, it would be 3.6 making it top.

the weighting changes based on # of reviews maybe? idk

I think I pragmatically voted Nadav Lapid to take the win in this poll, but my heart hopes it's Ryûsuke Hamaguchi.

Drive My Car also tops the Screen Daily Jury Grid (mostly European critics)

https://www.screendaily.com/news/drive-my-car-races-into-cannes-jury-grid-lead-with-benedetta-third-flag-day-struggles/5161521.article

MEMORIA (Col-Thai-UK-Mex-Fr-Ger-Qat)

the reviews I've been reading of Memoria have made me excited to see it

The Variety review was fairly negative (probably about as negative as a critic's review could reasonably be expected to be about a Joe film) but The Guardian review was ecstatic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyVe11x5y9o

of the ones I've read, I liked Erik Kohn's review in Indiewire

some other awards were announced

Directors’ Fortnight:
Europa Cinemas Cannes Label winner (best European film) - Jonas Carpignano’s “A Chiara”
SACD prize - Vincent Maël Cardona’s “Magnetic Beats (Les Magnétiques)”

Critics’ Week:
Nespresso Grand Prize - Omar El Zohairy’s “Feathers”
Rising Star Award -  Sandra Melissa Torres for her performance in Simón Mesa Soto’s “Amparo”

“A Chiara” is the third film in Carpignano’s Calabrian Trilogy. I thought his second, “A Ciambra”, which shares at least one character and which also won Directors’ Fortnight in 2017, was really interesting and am looking forward to this

"The Guardian review was ecstatic"

I wouldn't say a Peter Badshaw 5 star review ain't what it used to be. I'd just say it never was anything!

Bradshaw is good. He gives out too many 5 stars but he knows why he's doing it. He's spoken about how 5 stars doesn't mean the film in question is perfect, nor should it.

I think the only 5 star reviews he's given at Cannes 2021 were for The Worst Person In the World and Memoria

sounds like the main sticking point with Memoria for some is toward the end, where there is a static 20+ minute shot of a conversation.

from Kohn: “the transfixing final act, when Jessica ventures to the countryside to check out an archeological dig and instead finds herself in a prolonged, sleepy exchange with a man who finally provides some measure of an explanation for her mental disorder. Their exchange pushes Apichatpong’s liberated non-narrative style to a certain extreme, with results so bold that could very well alienate all but his most passionate followers. But it’s an immersive gamble well worth the risk.”

reading about Jessica’s conversation with the second Hernan in Memoria reminds me of the conversation between Jenjira and the spirits of the two dead princesses in Cemetery of Splendour

I should watch CoS again. I didn't like it at the time but can remember almost nothing about it, other than a man taking a very large shit in a forest and some neon tubes.

Syndromes and a Century is the one I absolutely adore. Mindblowing stuff.

can’t believe Spike Lee would be enthusiastic about this film, his style is completely the opposite

"Bradshaw is good."

how can this be possible? he talks a lot of shite and shills for Penn family vanity project movies and Nolan + is a complete wanker to boot. I'm sorry but your wrong jed!

Haha, I know he is widely hated. I think he's too generous but I think that's a good character trait. He's never a wanker thoug?

wouldn't be surprised if Asghar Farhadi's "A Hero" won, it sounds like it is good and is also a crowd pleaser, plus he hasn't yet won the Palme

Pretty tepid reviews, no? I really like A Separation.

the reviews have been pretty good from what I've seen

I'm really curious about Red Rocket, I thought Sean Baker's two previous films were interesting

maybe the jury will like Titane, but even reading about that film makes me feel dysphoric

I think the Japanese driving film will win.

Hamaguchi.

A five star review in the Guardian can still significantly boost an art film's box office take - or at least it did pre-pandemic - and I think Bradshaw feels obliged to support independent cinema whenever he can. This does sometimes leave the reader feeling that he's arrived at his rating before even seeing the film. He also doesn't have much of a feel for, of knowledge of, genre cinema.

He's still better than Derek Malcolm, the Guardian's old film critic, who really was useless.

I never read enough of his reviews to have an opinion but Derek Malcolm's Top 100 Films of the Century was a big part of my movie education and I'll always be grateful for that. Also Bradders is a melt!

2017 through 2019 I really enjoyed following Cannes via daily podcasts but the only one I've found so far this year is Indiewire's Screen Talk with Eric Kohn. Anyone aware of any others?

"Bradshaw feels obliged to support independent cinema whenever he can"

that would be fair enough, but the way he has gushed over a family vanity project by Penn recently and every Nolan piece of shit says to me he's either a critic with very poor taste or an unprincipled critic who will shill for any talentless wanker if the money is behind them.

It's been said many times but that's cos it's true, the worst thing about Bradshaw is his inability to talk about a film without going into far too much spoilerish plot detail. I only read the first and last paragraph of his reviews

Also Bradders is a melt!

LOL it's a nice fantasy to imagine the Guardian hiring one of the Screen Marxist-Structuralist crowd circa 1975,

Just looked at Malcolm's 100, and yes it's very good, with quite a few non-canonical choices. He should've stuck to lists!

https://d1nslcd7m2225b.cloudfront.net/Pictures/780xany/0/7/1/1350071_cannes2021jurygridonline_328748.jpg

And the other site ...

 Competition [6.56/24]
1.	"ANNETTE" (Leos CARAX, France)	[8.68/839 0.9]
2.	"TITANE" (Julia DUCOURNAU, France)	[7.94/497 1.3]
3.	"DRIVE MY CAR" (Ryusuke HAMAGUCHI, Japan)	[7.87/141 1.5]
4.	"THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD" (Joachim TRIER, Norway)	[7.68/295 1.5]
5.	"RED ROCKET" (Sean BAKER, USA)	[7.40/176 1.5]
6.	"A HERO" (Asghar FARHADI, Iran)	[7.34/153 1.3]
7.	"PARIS 13TH DISTRICT (Les Olympiades)" (Jacques AUDIARD, France)	[7.32/157 1.5]
8.	"BERGMAN ISLAND" (Mia HANSEN-LOVE, France)	[7.30/122 1.5]
9.	"BENEDETTA" (Paul VERHOEVEN, Netherlands)	[7.08/736 1.4]
10.	"THE FRENCH DISPATCH" (Wes ANDERSON, USA)	[7.07/179 1.5]
11.	"HYTTI NRO 6 (COMPARTMENT NO.6)" (Juho KUOSMANEN, Finland)	[7.01/152 1.4]
12.	"MEMORIA" (Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL, Thaïland)	[6.75/98 2.0]
13.	"THE RESTLESS" (Joachim LAFOSSE, Belgium)	[6.67/6 0.9]
14.	"LA FRACTURE (The Divide)" (Catherine CORSINI, France)	[6.38/177 1.9]
15.	"TOUT S’EST BIEN PASSÉ (Everything Went Fine)" (François OZON, France)	[6.09/207 1.5]
16.	"PETROV’S FLU" (Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV, Russia)	[6.02/146 1.9]
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17.	"CASABLANCA BEATS" (Nabil AYOUCH, Morocco)	[5.85/72 1.8]
18.	"HA'BERECH (AHED’S KNEE)" (Nadav LAPID, Israel)	[5.80/180 1.9]
19.	"LINGUI" (Mahamat-Saleh HAROUN, Chad)	[5.71/145 1.7]
20.	"A FELESÉGEM TÖRTÉNETE (THE STORY OF MY WIFE)" (Ildikó ENYEDI, Hungary)	[5.58/120 1.6]
21.	"TRE PIANI (Three Floors)" (Nanni MORETTI, Italy)	[5.56/108 2.0]
22.	"NITRAM" (Justin KURZEL, Australia)	[5.50/6 0.8]
23.	"FRANCE" (Bruno DUMONT, France)	[5.15/88 2.0]
24.	"FLAG DAY" (Sean PENN, USA)	[3.79/152 1.9]

Un Certain Regard awards:

Grand Prize: 
Kira Kovalenko - "Unclenching The Fists"
Jury Prize
: Sebastian Meise - "Great Freedom"
Ensemble Prize
: Hafsia Herzi - "Bonne Mere"
Prize of Courage
: Teodora Ana Mihai - "La Civil"
Prize of Originality: 
Vladimir Johannsson - "Lamb"
Special Mention
: Tatiana Huezo - "Noche De Fuego (Prayers for the Stolen)"

for all you Bradshaw lovers

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jul/16/cannes-2021-who-will-win-the-palme-dor-and-who-should

Catherine Corsini's "La Fracture" won the Queer Palme

would like it if Bradshaw's top two were the winners, although wouldn’t bet on either of them winning anything

The latest jury tea I've been hearing indicates a clear divide between an Asian or a French Palm. That already rules out completely 13 titles.

— Cédric Succivalli (@OnTheLido) July 16, 2021

that cannes-ratings.herokuapp.com site is not very good, it seems based on sub-letterboxd opinions from people who most likely haven't even seen the films

FIPRESCI critics’ prizes:

Official Competition section award: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi - “Drive My Car”

Un Certain Regard section award: Laura Wandel (Belgium) - “Un Monde / Playground”

Parallel Sections best first work: Omar El Zohairy (Egypt) - “Feathers”

from what I’m seeing on twitter, the crews called back for the awards tonight include those of Ducournau, Weerasethakul, Hamaguchi, Trier, Lapid, Farhadi, Kurzel, Carax

"I've asked you all here because one of you is a murderer."

Ha ha.

Does anyone know how critics outside Cannes have seen films in competition? Nicolas Rapold and Amy Taubin are stuck in New York but still able to review films like Annette on that podcast I mentioned. Have there been special overseas screenings because of the pandemic or does it always work like that?

don't know, haven't heard of that before. Justin Chang was able to see ~20 of the competition films in LA. I would imagine the screenings are restricted

Oh yeah, wasn’t expecting to be able to rock up there myself. That sort of answers my question - maybe they did go to LA or there was similar here

We got awards ceremony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysdy49zdqvE

Marco Bellocchio received an honorary Palme, presented by Paolo Sorrentino

actor went to Caleb Landry Jones for Nitram

I think Spike Lee f*cked up, it sounded like he announced the Palme d'Or winner right off the bat

Ahed's Knee and Memoria are joint winners of the Jury Prize

here is a (glitchy) link to the ceremony live

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5gv6be

actress award goes to Renate Reinsve for Joachim Trier's The Worst Person In the World

screenplay to Drive My Car

best director to Leos Carax. he wasn’t present so Sparks accepted the award!

Grand Prix awarded jointly to A Hero and Compartment No. 6!

and of course, the Palme to Titane

Here’s the wild clip of Spike Lee accidentally announcing the Palme d’Or winner at the very beginning of the closing ceremony pic.twitter.com/l7kD1AP57A

— Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) July 17, 2021

hilarious Babylonian confusion - "can you tell me which is the first prize" isn't The First Prize, just the first one to be awarded

guess to win the palme d'or you had to do more than just drive a car

the most surprising thing for me was Compartment No. 6 sharing the Grand Prix

and of course, the Palme to Titane

Woohoo! Called it.

Just saw Titane. It’s busy and fascinating, very smart and very strange.

The car pregnancy is sorta the tertiary plot point if you can believe it? If it has any grander point it seems to be a pathological desire to avoid moral or ethical judgment when it comes to desire, survival and/or self identification. The director’s post show comment was that “I set out to make a movie about love and I think I succeeded.”

actress award goes to Renate Reinsve for Joachim Trier's The Worst Person In the World

― Dan S, 17 July 2021 18:25 (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

just after catching this and thought she was absolutely magnetic in it

very excited for Sentimental Value, which played at Cannes this year and reunites Trier and Reinsve

I've now seen all the nominees. This is my ranking:

1. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2. Ahed’s Knee (Nadav Lapid)
3. Titane (Julia Ducournau)
4. The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson)
5. Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
6. Red Rocket (Sean Baker)
7. Lingui – The Sacred Bonds (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
8. Compartment No. 6 (Juho Kuosmanen)
9. The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
10. Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
11. Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve)
12. Paris, 13th District (Jacques Audiard)
13. Casablanca Beats (Nabil Ayouch)
14. Nitram (Justin Kurzel)
15. The Divide (Catherine Corsini)
16. Petrov’s Flu (Kirill Serebrennikov)
17. Annette (Leos Carax)
18. A Hero (Asghar Farhadi)
19. The Story of My Wife (Ildikó Enyedi)
20. The Restless (Joachim Lafosse)
21. France (Bruno Dumont)
22. Everything Went Fine (Francois Ozon)
23. Flag Day (Sean Penn)
24. Three Floors (Nanni Moretti)

Totally forgot Flag Day existed (haven't seen).

It's not painful to watch like The Last Face is.