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

the #FBPEU is strong with this one

Also really curious about what Port Authority will be like

Disappointed by Jessica Hausner’s Science-Gone-Too-Far plant-anxiety drama LITTLE JOE - visually blooming but dramatically a wilting marigold. #Cannes2019

— Jonathan Romney (@JonathanRomney) May 17, 2019

:-(

seems like an unusual number of genre- and genre-leaning films in competition this year

http://i64.tinypic.com/2i0rjq0.png

Ramin Setoodeh's picture of Julianne Moore and Richard Madden watching Mariah Carey perform at Cannes

reading the reviews I don't think I care about what the critics say about Little Joe

the Almodovar sounds promising.

I haven't loved his films since Volver, but this one does seem like it could be pretty great

I really want to see the Dan Krauss/PaulHaggis documentary “5B” in special screenings at Cannes about the AIDS ward at SFGH in the early 80s

Review made to infuriate our Dane:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/16/sorry-we-missed-you-review-ken-loach

Broken Embraces is secretly one of the very best Almodovar, and he works very well in melancholy mode, so I'm intrigued.

the early reviews of The Lighthouse are very positive:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/19/the-lighthouse-review-robert-pattinson-shines-in-sublime-maritime-nightmare

https://theplaylist.net/lighthouse-cannes-review-20190519/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

also

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/05/the-lighthouse-review-robert-pattinson-cannes-2019-1202142861/

the Malick and Sciamma films are looking promising as well

reading all of the ecstatic reviews for The Lighthouse makes me wonder how the Cannes organizers make their selections, and why something like this would be left out of the competition

Wow, super excited to see that.

the filming location is apparently not Maine but Cape Forchu, an island off of Yarmouth Nova Scotia

I like late Malick a lot but the reception to this one has been lukewarm. Pleased the Sciamma has gone down well.

Another out of competition film that seems to have been v.popular is And Then We Danced.

https://d1nslcd7m2225b.cloudfront.net/Pictures/780xany/0/8/0/1303080_jurygridday6ppp_279596.jpg

was really interested to read that the score for Atlantique was composed by Fatima al Qadiri! also the "music direction" in Port Authority was by Matthew Herbert.

from everything I've read about Portrait of a Lady on Fire it sounds fantastic

going to wait til the end, but right now I think I'm going to vote for that in this poll

One thing I noticed following it all on podcasts and Twitter (my Cannes list is here in case you want it) is that it hasn't reflected the critics' scoreboard where Pain and Glory is way out in front. That's got more of a 7/10 kind of thumbs up and it's Bacurau and Portrait of a Lady on Fire that have really got people going. Maybe a younger generation.

Or maybe it's just the UK bias of my Twitter list and podcast listening.

Great...

I think the Palme dog race is over. #cannes2019

— erickohn (@erickohn) May 21, 2019

(Hint: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood just let out in the last year or so.)

it just *seemed* like a year amirite

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/portrait-lady-fire-celine-sciamma-adele-haenel-period-romance-female-liberated-portrait

xp well I'll be, a true legit Freudian slip

https://cdn1.thr.com/sites/default/files/2019/05/the_lighthouse_still_1.jpg

https://cdn1.thr.com/sites/default/files/2019/05/the_lighthouse_still_1.jpg

the word seems to be very good for bong's parasite

that image has got to be one of the best movie stills in recent memory

was disappointed by Snowpiercer (and didn't see Okja) but Parasite sounds like something I will like

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

https://d1nslcd7m2225b.cloudfront.net/Pictures/780xany/4/7/9/1303479_jurygridcopy_53988.jpg

lol Dolan

Alternative critic panel tables:

https://www.ekkofilm.dk/stjernebarometer/cannes-filmfestival-2019/

https://www.ioncinema.com/news/film-festivals/2019-cannes-critics-panel-day-quentin-tarantino-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood

https://icsfilm.org/features/cannes-2019-ics-critics-industry-panel/

Parasite now leads them all. I still voted for Portrait of a Lady on Fire though.

lol Dolan

:( Sachs

Lol, Ekko. I'm blocked from their twitter and facebook :)

Oh, Frederickpaws.

All signs point to everyone predicting Portrait of a Lady on Fire, wanting it to go to Parasite, thinking it's actually Pedro Almodovar's time, and Inarritu and company awarding Tarantino.

Sorry, Frederikpaws. xp

I really want to see the new Herzog now

https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/cannes-correspondences-7-the-wonder-of-werner-herzog-and-terrence-malick

I'm fully expecting Inarritu to go for the Kechiche

I mean. That sounds like the perfect worst-case scenario that doesn’t involve a threepeat for Loach, but a four hour sequel on the last day of the festival sounds like a real uphill battle

poll of polls, of films in and out of competition (rating/#voters/std dev):

http://cannes-ratings.herokuapp.com/2019

I foolishly threw my early vote to Diop but now I'm thinking it'll be Sciamma.

xp Rocketman in the top 10?!

My 2006 self would be shocked that I'd ever in my life say this, but I'm bummed the Dardennes appear to be in a real slump.