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

Just listened to a little of the Film Comment podcast on Day 1 and sounds like Amy Taubin's a pretty big fan of the Jarmusch.

interesting what she said about it’s bleakness throwing cold water over the rest of the festival, also her comments about how beautiful it is on a big screen, that it looks radioactive

its

Yeah, seems kind of an early call on what the rest of the festival will bring, but maybe she's seen the rest of the slate.

So the Malick he claims is a self-conscious return to working with a tighter script? I kind of find it hard to believe he ever worked with a tight script. I guess he just means less improvised?

I don’t know about “tight” (would argue his 70s pics qualify as that), but yeah, he’s apparently using an actual script again which was more/less absent from the last three.

it's easy to forget how relatively straightforward The Tree of Life is

I want it to be The New World 2!

the Filho is apparently quite batty.

https://www.avclub.com/john-carpenter-looms-over-a-day-of-madness-and-violence-1834808856

His dedication to finding new ways of depicting arguments about real estate is kinda admirable.

Bacurau sounds like something I’d really like. Not sure what to make of Les Misérables, I’m skeptical about the concept of a traditional-but-updated Street Crime Unit Paris police drama, but I suppose it could be great. One of the most interesting-sounding films to me so far in the festival is Beanpole by Kantemir Balagov in UCR

can't wait to hear what The Lighthouse is like

Atlantics also sounds really good from early takes

wasn't expecting Atlantics (Atlantique) to be a ghost story

Peter Bradshaw thinks Sorry We Missed You is better than I, Daniel Blake, but says “and here is where my qualm arises. Many people will see this film as a portrayal of real issues facing people – not silly old Brexit, which only worries people in the London bubble. Does the director himself feel like this? I don’t know. But I can only say that the European Union is the modern-day nursery of employment rights, and outside it is where working people will find more cynicism, more cruelty, more exploitation, more economic isolation and more poverty.”

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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