Who will win the Palme at Cannes? [2019 edition]

Torn between rooting for Hausner and Porumboiu. If they want to give it as a career award I hope it goes to Desplechin.

I'm always shit at guessing these but I don't see it going to one of the Americans (or Canadian) this year

I think most people are shit at guessing these, which is why it's fun.

In that vein, I'm guessing Ken Loach has it.

god help me for rooting against the Trot but if he wins again I'm gonna stop paying attention altogether

It's always impossible to guess what will win, though in this case we know that since Iñarittu is head of the jury, it will undoubtedly be shit.

that's not guaranteed, again let's recall Burton/Boonmee

this is exceptionally cynical but I could see him trying to win cred by picking the Diop

xp I'm convinced it was the fish coitus that sealed the deal on that one.

Burton >>>>>>> Iñarittu. But who knows, perhaps there won't be any bad movies he can give it to?

Lol

No idea, but I’m happy to learn that there is a new Sachs on the way.

I still don't actually believe the Jim Jarmusch zombie movie is for real. Too on the nose tbh.

A HIDDEN LIFE

This is a shit title.

I liked Filho’s Aquarius, and Bacurau by Filho and Dornelles sounds really interesting

I wish Eggers’ The Lighthouse had made it into competition. I think it’s in Directors’ Fortnight

Filho's Neighboring Sounds might be even better!

Also in Directors' Fortnight that I kinda wish was in the competition, Bertrand Bonello's Zombi Child. At Jarmusch's expense, even!

Adding to films that should have been in main competition: From UCR: Albert Serra's 'Freedom', Oliver Laxe's 'A Sun That Never Sets' and Bruno Dumont's 'Jeanne'. From Quinzaine there's Lav Diaz' 'The Halt' of course, but also Shahrbanoo Sadat's 'The Orphanage' and J-P Valkeapää's 'Dogs Don't Wear Pants'. And I would of course have 'A White, White Day', Hlynur Palmason's follow-up to the Danish language 'Winter Brothers' promoted as well. Also, apparently there's a new Patricio Guzman doc out of competition, would love for that to get some more attention if it's as good as his last few films.

Can someone @Festival_Cannes explain how on the festival's Instagram they announce a new Pedro Costa film in Un Certain Regard (VITALINA VARELA), but it's missing from today's official announcement and the website? (Spotted by @c0mmunicants.) #Cannes2019 pic.twitter.com/YlDQp17uUF

— Notebook (@NotebookMUBI) May 2, 2019

PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (Céline Sciamma; France)

Promising looking title

https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/celine-sciamma.jpg

unfortunately the plot synopsis sounds awful

How many people vote in these polls early vs waiting to hear how the films have gone down? I guess I should poll this.

I usually vote early to ensure maximum embarrassment

I vote Ken Loach every time.

I voted for the Tarantino for some reason. I have no idea how to predict this. Thought maybe the Malick, apparently a return to form, could win, but I bet it'll be one of these directors I've never heard of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palme_d%27Or#Multiple_Nominations

The following directors have had three or more films in competition and thus, are considered to have been nominated for the Palme d'Or:

13 Nominations
Ken Loach

9 Nominations
Carlos Saura
Lars von Trier

8 Nominations
Joel Coen
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Jean-Luc Godard

7 Nominations
Robert Altman
Marco Bellocchio
Luis Bunuel
Pietro Germi
Michael Haneke
Jim Jarmusch
Nanni Moretti

6 Nominations
Pedro Almodovar
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Vittorio De Sica
Arnaud Desplechin
Miklos Jancso
Alain Resnais
Paolo Sorrentino
Andrzej Wajda

5 Nominations
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Michelangelo Antonioni
Clint Eastwood
Shohei Imamura
Chen Kaige
Abbas Kiarostami
Emir Kusturica
Mike Leigh
Alf Sjoberg

4 Nominations
Lindsay Anderson
Jacques Audiard
Ingmar Bergman
Luis Garcia Berlanga
Matteo Garrone
James Gray
Aki Kaurismaki
Joseph Losey
David Lynch
Delbert Mann
Nagisa Oshima
Francesco Rosi
Satyajit Ray
Dino Risi
Volker Schlondorff
Martin Scorsese
Steven Soderbergh
Gus Van Sant

3 Nominations
Jane Campion
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Ethan Coen
Francis Ford Coppola
Costa-Gavras
Xavier Dolan
Alfred Hitchcock
Kon Ichikawa
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Masaki Kobayashi
David Lean
Terrence Malick
Nikita Mikhalkov
Cristian Mungiu
Ermanno Olmi
Elio Petri
Roman Polanski
Martin Ritt
Elia Suleiman
Quentin Tarantino
Paolo Taviani
Vittorio Taviani
William Wyler

"Nominations" is a weird way to tag it, but yeah. The Loach affinity is radiant.

Which, I admit I haven't seen either of his Palme winners, but I did watch The Angels' Share and Looking for Eric and they were both awful.

Yeah, the inability to put minor Loach in UCR is boring. Also, 13 noms and non of them are Kes. That's just pathetic.

I,Daniel Blake is my favourite since Sweet Sixteen. His collaboration with Laverty is not particularly fruitful imo.

The wind that shakes the barley winning the palme is a bit of a travesty

Yeah, Colossal Youth got robbed!

Every last movie that was also up for a Palme that year probably got robbed

Ok, looked again, and that year was shit for competition. But Pedro Costa was robbed.

I usually vote early to ensure maximum embarrassment

I only ever vote anonymously, ensuring maximum anonymity.

odds for Palme winner listed:

https://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/reviews/cannes2019/

so i will be in cannes the day the qt movie premieres~

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/cannes-has-a-sex-trafficking-problem-metoo-era-1208261

I liked this preview of some of the films at the festival, by Eric Kohn, Kate Erbland, Christian Blauvelt, David Ehrlich, Zack Sharf, Tambay Obenson (films in alphabetical order):

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/05/cannes-2019-film-festival-quentin-tarantino-terrence-malick-1202131965/

I always abstain cuz I give even less of a shit than I do bout the oscars

right now I have no idea what won last year. was it Frederik's Elephant?

Shoplifters

it was a great film!

I don't think I'm as immersed in the film world as you. to me this is a way of discovering new stuff

can't argue with Ken Loach being 5 nominations better than JLG or 6 better than Bunuel

I've never seen a Carlos Saura film before, or a Marco Bellocchio or Pietro Germi film for that matter

or one by Miklos Jancso, Alf Sjoberg, Joseph Losey, Delbert Mann, Nagisa Oshima, Francesco Rosi, Dino Risi or others

I’m going to take any Malick pre-screening hype as PR these days...

this 'nominations' stuff is unheard of (cuz it's nonsense)

You should watch a few Jancsos, Dan :) The early ones are really good.

if only I could

Again, if anyone spots a rave, please share it here.

I haven’t seen any raves, but the ratings on the Todas las Criticas grid (Apitchatpoll) place it in the middle of the competition pack, and the discussion of it on the awards watch forum is somewhat interesting (if you can stand the horrible interface)

I like this paragraph from Cineuropa (badly translated), which comes after a description of the plot: “The tireless partying and fun, reproduced without filter and with overflowing duration by the filmmaker up until a particularly crude climactic scene (but one dominated by a woman), are dotted with micro-events, brief looks or exchanges at the bar, in a continuous flood of sound, an exponential consumption of alcohol, and a loosening of cultural mores which “doesn’t do things by halves”. In this boiling aquarium, Abdellatif Kechiche details all the “good and bad sides” of a stupendous and highly energetic moment with fabulous virtuosity in his mise en scène. But his commitment to a radically elongated runtime — oscillating from hypnosis to overload — and to the deliberate, repetitive onslaught of sexualised dances he orchestrates, will require great tolerance and a firmly open mind for the viewer to truly appreciate the real value of the film as a whole.”

the ratings on the Todas las Criticas grid (Apitchatpoll) place it in the middle of the competition pack

Cool. It has 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.

yeah it's probably really bad, but even the bad reviews make it sound at least somewhat interesting (to me)

It's produced some of the only inspired pans I've read in a while, at least.

Those critics survived a longer ordeal than the Titanic victims, so.

Sounds like it takes even longer for the characters to get off in this one, too.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire won the Queer Palme

Xavier may never recover.

What time is the closing ceremony?

Since 1955, the Cannes Film Festival has awarded the Palme d’Or to some of the greatest filmmakers of all time, from Frances Ford Coppola to Jane Campion.

FIPRESCI winners

Competition: It Must Be Heaven (Elia Suleiman)
Un Certain Regard: Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov)
Directors Fortnight/Critics Week: The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...-prize-1213726

Indiewire just reordered their Palme predictions, putting Sciamma first. Sight and Sound critics's predictions are split between Sciamma and Bong

i was in cannes on wednesday, interesting scene for a normal person.. saw someone get a miracle free ticket to parasite, nice moment

this looks like a working livestream if anyone is interested:

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

Thanks. Céline Sciamma hasn't won the Palme then - just got the screenplay prize.

yeah that's disappointing

Dardennes get director prize, Bacurau and Les Miserables share jury prize.

Tarantino or Bong for the Palme?

BONG

Yesssss

Diop got the Grand Prix so my vote wasn't totally off!

Oh the whole, at least based on the critics, this seems like a really good set of winners overall?

it does seem like it

I liked the first "Mektoub..." quite a lot. Felt it worked fine as a self contained film. Think I'll be p(ass)ing on this one, though.

lol

It’s really been an amazing couple of decades for South Korean films

Peppermint Candy (Lee, 1999), Chunhyang, (Im, 2000), Oasis (Lee, 2002), Painted Fire (Im, 2002), Oldboy (Park, 2003), The Bow (Kim, 2005), Tale of Cinema (Hong, 2005), Crying Fist (Ryoo, 2005), The Host (Bong, 2006), Woman on the Beach (Hong, 2006), Secret Sunshine (Lee, 2007), Breath (Kim, 2007), Night and Day (Hong, 2008), Mother (Bong, 2009), Thirst (Park, 2009), Poetry (Lee, 2010), Hahaha (Hong, 2010), The Day He Arrives (Hong, 2011), Arirang (Kim, 2011), Snowpiercer (Bong, 2013), Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong, 2015) The Handmaiden (Park, 2016), On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong, 2017), Okja (Bong, 2017), The Day After (Hong, 2017), Claire’s Camera (Hong, 2018), Burning (Lee, 2018), Parasite (Bong, 2019)

haven't seen all of them, my favorites are Burning, Poetry, Secret Sunshine, Right Now Wrong Then, On the Beach at Night Alone, Claire's Camera. Oldboy and The Handmaiden had some amazing scenes

really glad to read that Netflix acquired Diop's Atlantique

Haven’t seen the first part of Mektoub yet, it hasn’t ever been available in the US as far as I know

Nope, but I hear Brazzers is picking up the North American distro on Intermezzo

lol

Is it possible that as the intermezzo in a trilogy of films from a director who is interested in exploring depictions of sexual expression the second part is meant to represent a kind of musical sustain

hypnosis and overload

I do wish that a director like this would turn his gaze on male sexuality

I liked what Eric Kohn had to say as a wrap-up: "the narrative of this year’s Cannes goes back to the beginning. Jim Jarmusch’s “The Dead Don’t Die” opened the festival to lukewarm reviews, but the master of deadpan’s dark zombie comedy is nothing if not a pointed critique of an exploitative system. The undead in Jarmusch’s kooky ensemble are drawn to products that they obsessed over in their lives — wifi, Xanax, coffee, you name it — and it doesn’t take much to see just how much contempt Jarmusch has for the way we’ve all become materialistic slaves.

It’s a blunt metaphor, explained in bitter terms in Tom Waits’ apocalyptic voiceover, but in retrospect it set the stage for the festival’s many depictions of global outrage against capitalist persecution. Wealth attracts and it takes away; in the process, it catalyzes dramatic narratives that must be told. Even bad movies can be portals to the fears, anxieties, and frustrations of the times in which they’re made; the 2019 Cannes Film Festival brought us some great ones."

On Korean film: It seems the story is pretty straight forward: The military only lost power in the early nineties, and censorship was only abolished in 1994, and there'd just been a lot of talent that was unleashed all of a sudden. Lee Chang-dong was a writer who only turned to film in his fourties, once it became a more free medium.

That said, this youtube-channel is pretty great for watching the treasures of early Korean cinema. I'd recommend The Aimless Bullet, The Empty Dream, Mandala and Sopyonje.
http://www.youtube.com/user/KoreanFilm

I'm surprised I see no year-end chatter about Little Joe generally and Emily Beecham in particular.

Have it premiered anywhere? I really hope to see it later this month.

I've only seen five of these so far, sigh. Dead Don't Die just came on VOD here.

Atlantique/Atlantics is on Netflix.

The only chatter I've heard about the Hausner is about ti being not v good

I don't know! https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6374-jessica-hausner-s-little-joe

Ben Whishaw makes everything that he is in bad, imo.

I like him fine. He helps this film's drollness.

he swivels his eyes from side to side like an eagle-eyes action man which is apparently how he has decided to do emotion/anxiety but he does it all the time.

Watched "Atlantique" last night on Netflix; my pops has a ridiculous-sized HD TV so I've been taking advantage and binging on good stuff. For a first timer Diop hit this one waaay out the ballpark. A great film.

Yeah, it's my favourite from competition so far.

The Traitor is unexpectedly rigorous and tough.

Anyone watch Young Ahmed? It's on Amazon Prime (for a fee).