Who will win the Palme at Cannes? [2018 edition]

not sure about likelihoods, but Lazzaro Felice looks super ambitious to me

I also loved Secret Sunshine and Poetry, so I'm looking forward to Lee's new film Burning

Jia or Farhadi or Hamaguchi or GTFO

Panahi > Farhadi and it's not even close.

Re Lars earnestness - nymphomaniac is about as tone deaf as it gets - it’s 3 hours too long

Nah, it's a flawed masterpiece

it works v well as a culminating work, which has me worried for the new one tbh

Jia or Farhadi or Hamaguchi or Panahi or GTFO

I've now seen three movies by Christophe Honoré, and to my surprise two of them turned out to be musicals! I'm wondering if his new one is too

Ehrlich said he thought that Farhadi's Everybody Knows was his best since A Separation

Faint praise

Convinced.

Farhadi is one of those directors, like Fatih Akin and - sad to say because I used to like him a lot - Christian Mungiu, where whatever aesthetic ideas they had at one point has become calcified and they're basically just great scripts. It's doubly sad because they're both taking up space that could go to good image-makers, but we're sorta also missing out on some very good novelists.

Most directors -- the good ones anyway -- have a pretty strict set of aesthetic ideas and things they think about, either in the content of their scripts, their politics and how some of these are transmitted visually. So no Mungiu isn't taking up space, the execution is still there w/ Graduation

Nah, it's crap.

So far the competition seems a bit so-so. The Godard sounds predictably great, but I'm not that excited by the rest. The Serebrennikov turns out to be a biopic about Viktor Tsoi from the Russian band Kino, but it sounds quite pedestrian and way too pleasant for it's subject. The 8 hour Wang Bing about Chinese death camps sounds absolutely amazing, on the other hand.

im not sure I've the fortitude for an 8 hour documentary about death camps in the gobi desert

idk this could be great but honestly the prospect of sitting through a pessimistic feature-length screed writing off the future from the POV of an old-ass dude sounds like torture to me sorry

http://www.indiewire.com/2018/05/the-image-book-review-jean-luc-godard-cannes-1201963343/

I'd honestly much rather have full on fatalism than the faux concerned cynicism of someone like Bigelow or Villeneuve. And politically, it can't really be any stupider than his Dziga Vertov films, no? More Godardian montage-essay is a-ok with me. This new short was good as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO5Y6wlPn5k
It's an attack on Macron, who sent riot forces to handle protesters at the Notre-Dame-des-Landes (NDDL) designating it a Zone a Defendre (ZAD) or 'defence zone'. Or at least I think it is.

i am very excited about this film

ASH IS PUREST WHITE: perhaps the finest “stop snitching” film to ever come out of China. Makes a clean companion with MMD in its elliptical timeline, its charting of wide scale change, and its delightful disco dancing.

— Charles Bramesco (@intothecrevasse) May 11, 2018

now THAT I can rock with

xpost Friends in the know have told me the Godard short is a fake :/

haven't seen any of these

after what Jeff Wells wrote about the Honore film (he walked out of it cuz it was "cummy") i will probably punch him in the face if i ever see his stupid mug again.

hate that motherfucker so much

it's like Rex Reed went into the Black Lodge and came out a hetero aspect-ratio nitwit

A world where a Jeff Wells gets to cover Cannes has already gone thru the Black Lodge.

Nah, it's crap.

― Frederik B, Friday, 11 May 2018 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Like I said, convinced.

https://d1nslcd7m2225b.cloudfront.net/Pictures/1200xany/4/9/0/1282490_Jury-Grid-DAY-5.jpg

And here are the Chinese critics

#Cannes2018 Our Chinese critics didn’t enjoy Girls of the Sun pic.twitter.com/7mktWT706a

— Chinese Critics Grid (@CriticsGrid) May 13, 2018

Update on the Screen International list

We have a new leader atop the @Screendaily critics jury grid. #Cannes2018 pic.twitter.com/hyM5f4Sm2j

— Tim Grierson (@TimGrierson) May 13, 2018

I've never seen (or even previously heard of) any Rohrwacher's stuff before but this sounds neat

http://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/happy-as-lazzaro-review-1202808832/

Both Corpo Celeste and The Wonders are really great. She is a major new filmmaker. Alba Rohrwachers sister :)

I've been trying not to read too much about Lazzaro Felice so as not to spoil the surprise. The Wonders was lovely and memorable. Corpo Celeste is available on the library streaming app Kanopy, so maybe I'll watch that this week

the trailer for the LVT is less than encouraging tbh

Kore-eda's Shoplifters is also getting pretty great reviews. Sounds like it has echoes of Nobody Knows, my favorite film of his so far

After the Storm was the best Kore-eda in years, so I could actually sorta believe he recovered his mojo.

An outlying opinion, but the best tweet:

Unfortunately the new Spike Lee often reminds me of Three Billboards or the Starsky & Hutch w/ Owen Wilson.

— Miriam Bale (@mimbale) May 14, 2018

Are you Alba Rohrwacher, Alba? Because if so, cool!

Yeahhh I'd be happy to be wrong but I'm concerned LVT might have tripped over a little too far into troll mode

So in Lars Von Trier's film premiering at Cannes tomorrow the male characters have names and the women characters are LADY 1, 2, 3 and Simple. I was worried this year's festival was too feminist so I am relieved. #Cannes71 #cannes2018

— Another Gaze: A Feminist Film Journal (@anothergaze) May 14, 2018

It's the second time in 25 years that LvT has a male protagonist, and he has used nameless characters before. He is not trolling.

Lvt's entire career is built on trolling ppl.

Glad to help you understand.

Yeah, I've written about him for years, interviewed his collaborators, he is not trolling.

he's too frequently a clown (and not a good one)

The weird thing about LVT is that people seem much more keen on reviewing him than reviewing his films. Maybe it's that fear of being fooled that does this.

he's in his films

Yeah, I've written about him for years, interviewed his collaborators, he is not trolling.

― Frederik B, Tuesday, May 15, 2018 5:47 AM (one hour ago)

You will forgive some of those on the thread for engaging in a little consideration of the source here.

How so?

Well, calling LVT not a troll is a pretty good place to start.

And end, apparently.

I'm cool with that.

Well, let me oblige you: Lars von Trier is not a troll.