Who will win the Palme at Cannes? [2024 edition]

Also, Coppola winning director feels pretty likely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbt9T8cPac0

the closing ceremony has started

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk-EgrOQjlc

re: best actress, commence culture wars

Jesse Plemons not being there for his best actor award is pretty brazen

Oof 😅

For posterity…

Ok maybe it won’t be the Audiard

so it looks like Megalopolis is not getting anything (Sean Baker is in the audience and I don't see Coppola)

Anora for the Palme?

it looks like it will win it

There it is. I can't remember what I went for but pretty sure the one vote wasn't mine

Thrilled for him! Still feel like I’m on the fence about his work in general, but always worth wrestling with

Coppola was there to give the Honorary Palm to George Lucas. But for a while I was really worried he would twin.

Sean Baker winning is great!

Not having seen any of the films, it sounds like they chose wisely for the most part. Congratulations to Greta Gerwig and the jury

the Caméra d'Or-winning film Armand by Halfdan Ullmann Tondel, the grandson of Liv Ullman and Ingmar Bergman, featuring a totally flipped out performance by Renate Reinsve, sounds very interesting to me

Of the films not in the main competition, Alain Guiraudie’s Miséricorde from the Cannes Premiere section is the one I most want to see. He is one of my favorite directors (I loved Stranger By the Lake and Staying Vertical), and I've heard great things about it

Jonathan Romney described it in very interesting terms in a podcast with Nicholas Rapold

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-249-cannes-2024-romney-on-misericordia-rumours-being/id1512801510?i=1000656578260

The Cronenberg seems to have been divisive...looking forward to seeing it though

I'm still unhappy that Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Memoria, winner of the Cannes Jury Prize in 2021 and a film that by all accounts is amazing, may never become available for me to see in the US on streaming