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

Palme d'or for Kore-eda

"Special Palme d'Or"?

I love Kore-eda so happy with that!

Hmmmm

Who voted for him in this poll?

my boyyyyyy

Dennis Lim’s top ten from Cannes 2018. pic.twitter.com/UCjtDAU9sU

— Ryan Swen (@swen_ryan) May 19, 2018

Hilarious reaction from Scumbag Wells:

"Why did they give the top prize to a film I didn’t get around to seeing? I resent that."

Ugh, Ulrich Köhler

What's he done?

Made films I don't like...

Dennis Lim is a guest on the Cannes day 4 episode of the Film Comment podcast in case you're interested. And on day 5 they briefly discuss whether you have to stay to the end of a film (when you're not reviewing it, that is).

good looking out!

I saw Burning last night (by illicit means) and thought it was very good but I'm slightly confused by the absolutely ecstatic reviews. The performances are a wow though.

I liked Burning but prefer Poetry. Steven Yeun, though -- damn.

Cold War however was a collection of received gestures. After this and Ida I realized Pawlikowski is not for me but for those who miss high-toned '60s-era European ci-ne-mah.

yeah Yeun is so great in it. coulda safely shaved off a half-hour and not lost much of anything, and I agree w/ Morbs that the ending doesn't quite work.

At the panel discussion I served on yesterday the audience agreed that the cat didn't exist and wasn't convinced by the ending.

that wasn't me; i haven't seen Burning yet

d'oh

Happy as Lazzaro is utterly gorgeous but its charms began to wear out in its second half.

Alfred otm about Cold War which is certified midbrow filler.

I was half expecting it to win TIFF'a Audience Award as a result

out of the 6 i've now seen from the poll, would pick Asako i & ii in a heartbeat

Happy as Lazzaro just won the top prize at the Chicago film festival

saw Hamaguchi's Heaven Is Still Far Away, it was interesting

This year's competition slate announcement is pretty overdue.

It's coming this thursday.

Still haven't seen that much of this slate, but I think my favorite is Livre d'Image. As a correction to myself upthread, I ended up really liking the Köhler, btw.

Under the Silver Lake sounds like a hoot

it's pretty tedious tbh

Looking forward to seeing Happy as Lazzaro and The Wild Pear Tree in the next few weeks. Just to be completely predictable, I think my favorite from the entire lineup is the 8 hour documentary on Chinese death camps

The lineup sounds pretty boring: https://variety.com/2019/film/global/cannes-xaiver-dolan-pedro-almodovar-ken-loach-terrence-malick-competition-1203190447/ Though I'm hoping for a Jessica Hausner breakthrough.

that DOES sound boring. Kekiche again?!

making for a stronger and starrier lineup than last year’s slate

Oy.

Did anyone see the first Mektoub film?

just realized Innaritu is jury president this year. barf

Lol. Finally saw Amores Perros, btw. Might be the worst film ever, so much worse than even Birdman and The Revenant.

21 Grams is even worse iirc

I wonder what the best Palme winner to come from the worst director might be.

Or, rather, the worst jury head.

The Tim Burton jury picked Uncle Boonmee, so that seems like a pretty good bet.

worst/worst has to be between:

Luc Besson/Dancer in the Dark

Tarantino/Fahrenheit 9/11

Burton's made more bad movies than either of those guys (though both Tarantino and Besson are creeps) and Uncle Boonmee is the best winner of the last while, so I agree w/ Eric here.

Also, Dancer in the Dark is great. So.

Dancer in the Dark is fine, but even I, avowed Bjork nut unto death, can admit it beat out at least 4 far greater films.

Oh, sure, but every Cannes winner except for Uncle Boonmee does that...

Waiting for someone to do the poll (we should honestly probably wait a few days, rumors say the Tarantino will be added later) but so far it looks better than I'd feared. Hausner, Mati Diop, Porumboiu. Pretty good additions.

someone who's not me should make the poll this year

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/apr/18/cannes-2019-new-films-from-terrence-malick-and-ken-loach-but-no-tarantino

I think we should wait until the lineup is complete until we make a new poll.

Glad to see new work from Serra and Laxe in UCR. It's a pretty good lineup so far! And we haven't even gotten to Director's Forthnight yet!

Hausner making an SF film = here for it

it's what, about half repeat appearances, half new blood in competition this year? I'll take it.

I think 8 out of 19 is new. A bit better than usual, though worse than last year. Fun fact: All four of the women in competition are new, which also means a fully 50% of debutants are women.

Agreed that we should wait to make the poll until closer to the start of the competition.