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

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.

The Dead Don’t Die (dir: Jim Jarmusch) – opening film
Atlantique (dir: Mati Diop)
Bacarau (dir: Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles)
Frankie (dir: Ira Sachs)
A Hidden Life (dir: Terrence Malick)
It Must Be Heaven (dir: Elia Suleiman)
Les Misérables (dir: Ladj Ly)
Little Joe (dir: Jessica Hausner)
Matthias and Maxime (dir: Xavier Dolan)
Oh Mercy! (dir: Arnaud Desplechin)
Parasite (dir: Bong Joon-ho)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (dir: Céline Sciamma)
Sibyl (dir: Justine Triet)
Sorry We Missed You (dir: Ken Loach)
Pain and Glory (dir: Pedro Almodóvar)
The Traitor (dir: Marco Bellocchio)
La Gomera (dir: Corneliu Porumboiu)
The Wild Goose Lake (dir: Diao Yinan)
The Young Ahmed (dir: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)

This slate, even if it ends up making room for Tarantino as everyone expects, lacks a sort of "They've never won the Palme?!" already-canonized candidate a la Jia Zhang-Ke last year. I guess one could place Almodovar in that company, but it's been awhile since he's made anything anyone cares about.

They keep making room for Loach, don't they.

What I mean is, with no Jia or Wong or Hou or Godard to attend to, this slate offers a shot at coronating someone extra fresh and new, et al, which is fun.

the Sciamma sounds dopey as fuck tbh

hopefully instead of tarantino they just add three hong films

yay for mati diop though! liked the short of hers i saw

oh, she was daughter in 35 Rhums! I thought she looked familiar.

Hausner making an SF film = here for it

is the Malick his return to "conventional" narrative or whatever?

supposedly it has an actual script; his only other films in Competition have been Tree of Life and (iirc) Days of Heaven

can it be a return to movies that don't fucking blow

To the Wonder was good! (Still haven't seen Song to Song)

Song to Song is hilariously bad. but I don't like any of his movies besides Days of Heaven (which I'm not crazy about either).

I even liked Knight of Cups, but even I didn't dare to watch Song to Song.

the main competition jury includes 6(!) directors this year - Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, Yorgos Lanthimos, Pawel Pawlikowski, Kelly Reichardt, Alice Rohrwacher and Robin Campillo

the 2018 lineup was criticized as being weak, but in retrospect it seems like it was it was one of the best in a while

I was somewhat perturbed to see Stev Yeun, who was so great in Burning, turn up on one sketch on the gross-out sketch show, I Think You Should Leave on Netflix.

not sure about 2019. the jury selection seems more impressive than the films. agree with Eric that the iconic filmmakers who haven’t been recognized yet category is lacking this year

I don't know if I care that much about iconic directors, but I love that Hausner and Porumboiu, two of the best youngish directors, are there for the first time.

Tarantino and Kechiche added. Think the lineup is complete now. New poll?

Yeah they hit their perv quota

LOL

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Anyone catch The Wild Goose Lake? I quite liked Diao Yinan's previous film, Black Coal, Thin Ice ... people on here seem to be mixed on Long Day's Journey Into Night but eh, I liked An Elephant Sitting Still which wasn't too popular here either.

Is this the only place to talk about Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu? It devastated me. Utterly exquisite. A definite 10/10, for me. Some of the things Sciamma does would seem ridiculous if you read about it (the heart going on fire in the previous attempt at a portrait) but she does it with such style and feeling. The last shot broke me.

Adele stan 'til I die.

there is an "arthouse" thread

I was not blown away by it, but Adele Haenel and the cinematography make it

Also, this was in the 2019 Cannes thread, not the 2018 one.

Yup. This is where we'll talk about, like, Girls of the Sun, when all of a sudden that gets a release.

This was a really good slate, in retrospect.

I can't stop thinking about this film. It's perfect, imo.

the writing is amazing as well.

-I've never even seen her smile
-have you tried being funny?

one of the most amazing details is the saliva streams during the kisses.

It's just such an accomplished film from start to finish.

excellent movie but it did make me lol that they're on a remote island in the 18th century and still everyone, including the maid, is immaculately clean and groomed in every single scene

Someone lock this thread already.