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.

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.