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

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.

That Rocketman placement surprises me! It isn't surprising that of the competition films that have been reviewed so far Malick and Dolan are the most divisive (highest std deviation)

Fun to click back on previous years to see how critical consensus shook out differently vs. the initial rush of the competition. For example:

1.	"Le Havre" (Aki Kaurismaki) FIPRESCI Price	[7.95/33 1.3]
2.	"Le gamin au vélo" (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) Grand prix	[7.61/52 0.9]
3.	"The Tree of Life" (Terrence Malick)s Palm d'Or	[7.14/52 1.8]
4.	"Once Upon a Time in Anatolya" (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) Grand prix	[7.06/25 1.4]
5.	"The Artist" (Michel Hazanavicius)	[6.56/42 1.8]
6.	"La Piel Que Habito (The Skin I Live In)" (Pedro Almodóvar)	[6.39/44 1.8]
7.	"Drive" (Nicolas Winding Refn) Best Director	[6.25/34 2.1]
8.	"Habemus Papam" (Nanni Moretti)	[6.18/51 1.7]
9.	"Melancholia" (Lars von Trier)	[6.15/49 2.1]
10.	"We Need to Talk About Kevin" (Lynne Ramsay)	[6.13/50 1.9]

According to this site, Parasite is the second-best reviewed film in competition from the entire last decade, and Pain & Glory the fourth-best:

1.	"La vie d'Adèle - Chapitre 1 & 2 (Blue is the Warmest Colour)" (Abdellatif Kechiche) Palme d'Or + FIPRESCI Prize Competition	[8.71/84 1.2]
2.	"Parasite (Gisaengchung)" (Bong Joon-ho)	[8.56/210 1.2]
3.	"The Traitor (Il traditore)" (Marco Bellocchio)	[8.50/1 0.0]
4.	"Pain & Glory (Dolor y gloria)" (Pedro Almodovar)	[8.43/234 1.2]
5.	"Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) Palme D'Or	[8.42/31 2.1]
6.	"Toni Erdmann" (Maren Ade) FIPRESCI Price	[8.24/130 1.5]
7.	"Burning (Beoning)" (Lee Chang-dong) FIPRESCI Prize, ICS Award	[8.14/270 1.2]
8.	"Elle" (Paul Verhoeven)	[7.95/95 1.4]
9.	"Carol" (Todd Haynes)	[7.94/91 1.6]
10.	"Amour (Love)" (Michael Haneke) Palme d'Or	[7.92/82 1.4]
11.	"Des hommes et des dieux (Of Gods And Men)" (Xavier Beauvois)	[7.88/25 1.6]
12.	"The Assassin (Nie Yinniang/聶隱娘)" (Hou Hsiao Hsien) Best Director	[7.87/89 1.9]
13.	"Le Havre" (Aki Kaurismaki) FIPRESCI Price	[7.76/37 1.4]
14.	"Inside Llewyn Davis" (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) Grand prix	[7.74/87 1.5]
15.	"Shoplifters (Manbiki kazoku)" (Hirekazu Kore-eda) Palme d'Or	[7.72/183 1.3]
16.	"Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu)" (Céline Sciamma)	[7.72/186 1.8]
17.	"Shi (Poetry)" (Lee Chang-dong)	[7.65/27 1.4]
18.	"Winter Sleep (Kis Uykusu)" (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) FIPRESCI Prize Competition + Palme d'Or	[7.63/83 1.6]
19.	"Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro felice)" (Alice Rohrwacher) Best Screenplay ex-aequo	[7.59/160 1.5]
20.	"Deux jours, une nuit (Two Days, One Night)" (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)	[7.59/89 1.4]
21.	"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" (Quentin Tarantino)	[7.56/145 1.5]
22.	"Holy Motors" (Leos Carax)	[7.54/74 2.1]
23.	"Le gamin au vélo" (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) Grand prix	[7.54/57 1.1]
24.	"The Wild Pear Tree (Ahlat Agaci)" (Ceylan)	[7.51/100 1.5]
25.	"Adieu au langage (Goodbye to Language)" (Jean-Luc Godard) Jury Prize	[7.47/74 2.3]
26.	"Cold War (Zimna wojna)" (Pawel Pawlikowski) Best Director	[7.46/223 1.5]
27.	"Sieranevada" (Cristi Puiu)	[7.35/117 1.7]
28.	"Paterson" (Jim Jarmusch)	[7.31/126 2.0]
29.	"The Tree of Life" (Terrence Malick)s Palm d'Or	[7.26/58 1.9]
30.	"Aquarius" (Kleber Mendonça Filho)	[7.20/108 1.5]
31.	"Only Lovers Left Alive" (Jim Jarmusch)	[7.17/47 1.4]
32.	"BlacKkKlansman" (Spike Lee) Grand Prix	[7.17/217 1.6]
33.	"Dogman" (Matteo Garrone) Best Actor	[7.14/283 1.5]
34.	"Ash Is Purest White (Jiang hu er nv)" (Jia Zhangke)	[7.11/167 1.3]
35.	"Moonrise Kingdom" (Wes Anderson)	[7.09/111 1.5]
36.	"Good Time" (Benny and Josh Safdie)	[7.07/151 1.5]
37.	"Once Upon a Time in Anatolya" (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) Grand prix	[7.03/26 1.4]
38.	"120 Battements par Minute" (Robin Campillo) Grand Prix du Jury, FIPRESCI Prize Competition, Queer Palm	[7.02/141 1.5]
39.	"Clouds of Sils Maria" (Olivier Assayas)	[7.02/66 1.5]
40.	"Bacalaureat (Graduation)" (Cristian Mungiu) Best Director Ex-Aequo	[7.01/119 1.4]
41.	"Tian Zhu Ding (A Touch of Sin)" (Jia Zhangke) Best screenplay	[6.98/84 1.7]
42.	"Mountains May Depart (Shan he gu ren/山河故人)" (Jia Zhang-Ke)	[6.97/86 1.7]
43.	"Mommy" (Xavier Dolan) Jury Prize	[6.94/70 2.0]
44.	"A Hidden Life (Une vie cachée)" (Terrence Malick)	[6.93/188 2.0]
45.	"The Day After" (Hong Sangsoo)	[6.90/122 1.7]
46.	"Son of Saul (Saul Fia)" (László Nemes) Grand Prix + FIPRESCI	[6.87/90 1.9]
47.	"Bacurau (Nighthawk)" (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles, BR)	[6.86/246 1.6]
48.	"Timbuktu" (Abderrahmane Sissako) Ecumenical Jury Award	[6.83/91 1.3]
49.	"Sorry we missed you" (Ken Loach)	[6.80/200 1.8]
50.	"Three Faces (Se Rokh)" (Jafar Panahi) Best Screenplay ex-aequo	[6.80/149 1.3]
51.	"Beyond The Hills" (Cristian Mungiu) Best screenplay + actresses	[6.79/65 1.7]
52.	"Vous n'avez encore rien vu (You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet)" (Alain Resnais)	[6.74/59 1.7]
53.	"Mia Madre" (Nani Moretti)	[6.73/76 1.6]
54.	"Image and Speech (Le livre d’image)" (Jean-Luc Godard) Special Palme d'Or	[6.72/156 2.5]
55.	"The Summer (Leto)" (Kirill Serebrennikov)	[6.71/162 1.4]
56.	"Les Misérables" (Ladj Ly)	[6.66/217 1.7]
57.	"La Piel Que Habito (The Skin I Live In)" (Pedro Almodóvar)	[6.64/49 1.9]
58.	"The Meyerowitz Stories" (Noah Baumbach)	[6.64/137 1.6]
59.	"Leviathan" (Andrey Zvyagintsev) Best screenplay	[6.59/57 2.0]
60.	"You Were Never Really Here" (Lynne Ramsay) Best Screenplay + Actor	[6.57/123 2.3]
61.	"Maps to the Stars" (David Cronenberg) Best actress	[6.55/85 1.8]
62.	"Rester Vertical (Stay Vertical)" (Alain Guiraudie)	[6.51/130 1.7]
63.	"Da-reun na-ra-e-suh (In Another Country)" (Hong Sangsoo)	[6.50/69 2.2]
64.	"The Whistlers (La Gomera)" (Corneliu Porumboiu)	[6.50/155 1.6]
65.	"Sorry Angel (Plaire, aimer et courir vite)" (Christophe Honoré)	[6.49/205 1.5]
66.	"Mud" (Jeff Nichols)	[6.49/34 1.2]
67.	"Okja" (Bong Joon-Ho)	[6.48/171 1.7]
68.	"Mr Turner" (Mike Leigh) Best actor	[6.46/86 1.9]
69.	"Like Someone In Love" (Abbas Kiarostami)	[6.45/73 2.2]
70.	"The Artist" (Michel Hazanavicius)	[6.45/47 1.9]
71.	"Julieta" (Pedro Almodovar)	[6.45/128 1.8]
72.	"Loveless (Nelyubov)" (Andrei Zvyagintsev) Jury Prize	[6.42/154 2.1]
73.	"Under the Silver Lake" (David Robert Mitchell)	[6.41/216 1.9]
74.	"The Wild Goose Lake (Nan Fang Che Zhan De Ju Hui)" (Diao Yinan, China)	[6.41/142 1.4]
75.	"Le passé (The Past)" (Asghar Farhadi) Ecumenical Jury Award, Best actress	[6.39/88 2.1]
76.	"The Beguiled" (Sofia Coppola) Best Director	[6.38/164 1.7]
77.	"Im Nebel (In the Fog)" (Sergei Loznitsa) Fipresci Price	[6.36/51 1.6]
78.	"Cosmopolis" (David Cronenberg)	[6.35/61 2.2]
79.	"Behind the Candelabra (Ma vie avec Liberace)" (Steven Soderbergh)	[6.33/81 1.3]
80.	"Foxcatcher" (Bennett Miller) Best director	[6.32/80 1.7]
81.	"Atlantics (Atlantique)" (Mati Diop)	[6.31/216 1.6]
82.	"The Immigrant" (James Gray)	[6.31/62 1.9]
83.	"Nebraska" (Alexander Payne) Best actor	[6.29/77 1.7]
84.	"Wonderstruck" (Todd Haynes)	[6.29/168 1.7]
85.	"The Square" (Ruben Östlund) Palme d'Or	[6.29/155 2.0]
86.	"Soshite Chichi ni Naru (Like Father, Like Son)" (Kore-Eda Hirokazu) Jury Prize	[6.29/86 1.5]
87.	"Asako I & II (Netemo sametemo)" (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)	[6.28/143 1.8]
88.	"The Lobster" (Yorgos Lanthimos) Jury Prize	[6.28/91 1.8]
89.	"Ma loute (Slack Bay)" (Bruno Dumont)	[6.28/136 1.8]
90.	"Drive" (Nicolas Winding Refn) Best Director	[6.26/39 2.1]
91.	"Tournée (On Tour)"( Mathieu Amalric)	[6.21/28 1.5]
92.	"Melancholia" (Lars von Trier)	[6.20/55 2.2]
93.	"We Need to Talk About Kevin" (Lynne Ramsay)	[6.17/55 1.9]
94.	"Loving" (Jeff Nichols)	[6.15/123 1.8]
95.	"Schastye Moe (My Joy)" (Sergei Loznitsa)	[6.15/26 1.9]
96.	"Dheepan" (Jacques Audiard) Palme d'Or	[6.13/74 1.7]
97.	"De rouille et d'os (Rust and Bone)" (Jacques Audiard)	[6.12/77 2.0]
98.	"Happy End" (Michael Haneke)	[6.10/159 1.9]
99.	"Habemus Papam" (Nanni Moretti)	[6.09/56 1.6]
100.	"Un homme qui crie (A Screaming Man)" (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)	[6.09/27 1.3]
101.	"I, Daniel Blake" (Ken Loach) Palme d'Or	[6.07/108 1.8]
102.	"Le Meraviglie (The Wonders)" (Alice Rohrwacher) Grand prix	[6.07/69 2.0]
103.	"Another Year" (Mike Leigh)	[6.02/23 2.4]
104.	"The Salesman (Foroushande)" (Ashgar Farhadi) Best Screenplay + Actor	[6.02/89 1.6]
105.	"Personal Shopper" (Olivier Assayas) Best Director Ex-Aequo	[6.00/133 2.2]
106.	"Saint Laurent" (Bertrand Bonello)	[6.00/80 1.9]
107.	"Sibyl" (Justine Triet, F)	[6.00/3 2.2]
108.	"The Tree" (Julie Bertuccelli)	[6.00/1 0.0]
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109.	"The Killing of a Sacred Deer" (Yorgos Lanthimos) Best Screenplay	[5.99/165 2.3]
110.	"La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty)" (Paolo Sorrentino)	[5.97/65 2.4]
111.	"The Homesman" (Tommy Lee Jones)	[5.97/76 1.6]
112.	"The Dead Don’t Die" (Jim Jarmusch) Opener	[5.94/583 1.3]
113.	"Copie conforme (Certified Copy)" (Abbas Kiarostami)	[5.94/26 1.7]
114.	"Killing Them Softly" (Andrew Dominik)	[5.93/70 1.7]
115.	"The Measure of a Man (La loi du Marché)" (Stéphane Brizé)	[5.93/58 1.6]
116.	"Matthias and Maxime" (Xavier Dolan)	[5.90/68 2.1]
117.	"The Handmaid (아가씨, Agassi, Mademoiselle)" (Park Chan-wook)	[5.88/117 2.0]
118.	"American Honey" (Andrea Arnold) Jury Prize	[5.86/120 2.3]
119.	"La Vénus à la fourrure (Venus in Fur)" (Roman Polanski)	[5.85/44 1.6]
120.	"Little Joe" (Jessica Hausner)	[5.85/178 1.6]
121.	"Our Little Sister (Umimachi Diary/海街ｄｉａｒｙ)" (Kore-Eda Hirokazu)	[5.78/69 1.8]
122.	"At War (En guerre/Un autre monde)" (Stéphane Brizé)	[5.78/113 1.8]
123.	"Michael Kohlhaas" (Arnaud Des Pallières)	[5.73/55 1.6]
124.	"La filles inconnu (The Unknown Girl)" (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)	[5.69/122 1.5]
125.	"Sicario" (Denis Villeneuve)	[5.68/76 1.9]
126.	"Still the Water (Futatsume no mado)" (Kawase Naomi)	[5.66/75 2.1]
127.	"Jeune & Jolie (Young & Beautiful)" (François Ozon)	[5.64/81 1.6]
128.	"Frankie" (Ira Sachs)	[5.63/142 1.7]
129.	"Knife + Heart (Un couteau dans le cœur)" (Yann Gonzalez)	[5.62/163 2.1]
130.	"Hors la loi (Outside of the Law)" (Rachid Bouchareb)	[5.58/18 1.4]
131.	"Ichimei (Hara-kiri)" (Takashi Miike)	[5.58/38 1.6]
132.	"Youth (La giovinezza)" (Paolo Sorrentino)	[5.55/76 2.4]
133.	"The Angels' Share" (Ken Loach) Jury Price	[5.54/54 1.7]
134.	"Capernaum (Capharnaüm)" (Nadine Labaki) Jury Prize	[5.50/136 2.6]
135.	"Wild Tales (Relatos Salvajes)" (Damian Szifron)	[5.50/69 1.8]
136.	"The Little One (Ayka du kazakh)" (Sergei Dvortsevoy) Best Actress	[5.49/101 1.7]
137.	"L'Amant Double" (Francois Ozon)	[5.48/136 2.0]
138.	"Louder Than Bombs" (Joachim Trier)	[5.47/81 1.5]
139.	"Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian)" (Arnaud Desplechin)	[5.46/88 1.9]
140.	"Macbeth" (Justin Kurzel)	[5.45/46 1.8]
141.	"Young Ahmed (Le jeune Ahmed)" (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)	[5.43/168 1.8]
142.	"Hearat Shulayim (Footnote)" (Joseph Cedar) Best Screenplay	[5.40/54 1.9]
143.	"Reality" (Matteo Garrone) Grand Prix	[5.39/66 1.4]
144.	"La princesse de Montpensier" (Bertrand Tavernier)	[5.38/21 2.2]
145.	"Route Irish" (Ken Loach)	[5.33/15 1.8]
146.	"Valley of Love" (Guillaume Nicloux)	[5.31/60 1.9]
147.	"The Neon Demon" (Nicholas Anders Refn)	[5.30/113 2.5]
148.	"Everybody Knows (Todos lo saben)" (Asghar Farhadi)	[5.29/250 1.6]
149.	"Michael" (Markus Schleinzer)	[5.27/45 2.0]
150.	"Jagten (The Hunt)" (Thomas Vinterberg) Ecumenical Jury Award + Actor	[5.20/61 2.2]
151.	"A Gentle Creature (Krotkaya)" (Sergei Loznitsa)	[5.19/119 2.1]
152.	"Borgman" (Alex Van Warmerdam)	[5.15/62 2.0]
153.	"Paradies : Liebe (Paradise : Love)" (Ulrich Seidl)	[5.14/73 2.0]
154.	"Hikari" (Radiance)" (Naomi Kawase) Ecumenical Jury Prize	[5.13/112 2.0]
155.	"This Must Be the Place" (Paolo Sorrentino) Ecumenical Jury prize	[5.13/34 2.6]
156.	"Chronic" (Michel Franco) Best Screenplay	[5.12/54 2.0]
157.	"Ma' Rosa" (Brillante Mendoza) Best Actress	[5.11/92 1.8]
158.	"The Tale of Tales (Il Racconto dei Racconti)" (Matteo Garrone)	[5.10/90 2.0]
159.	"Un château en Italie (A Castle in Italy)" (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi)	[5.07/59 2.1]
160.	"Jimmy’s Hall" (Ken Loach)	[5.04/48 1.6]
161.	"Outrage" (Takeshi Kitano)	[5.04/28 2.2]
162.	"The Housemaid" (Im Sang-soo)	[5.04/27 1.4]
163.	"Heli" (Amat Escalante) Best director	[5.04/86 1.9]
164.	"Lawless" (John Hillcoat)	[4.98/71 1.6]
165.	"Fair Game" (Doug Liman)	[4.96/23 1.5]
166.	"Hanezu No Tsuki" (Naomi Kawase)	[4.90/31 2.0]
167.	"Grigris" (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)	[4.89/70 1.7]
168.	"Post Tenebras Lux" (Carlos Reygadas) Best director	[4.87/62 2.3]
169.	"Pater" (Alain Cavalier)	[4.84/25 2.0]
170.	"Only God Forgives" (Nicolas Winding Refn)	[4.82/89 2.3]
171.	"On the Road" (Walter Salles)	[4.77/66 1.7]
172.	"Le Redoutable" (Michel Hazanavicius)	[4.67/136 2.0]
173.	"Judgement Day (Yomeddine)" (Abu Bakr Shawky)	[4.64/128 1.9]
174.	"Polisse" (Maiwenn Le Besco) Special Jury Price	[4.63/45 2.1]
175.	"Juste la fin de monde (It’s Only the End of the World)" (Xavier Dolan) Grand Prix + Prix jury oecumenique	[4.62/113 2.2]
176.	"Sleeping Beauty" (Julia Leigh)	[4.58/61 1.8]
177.	"Oh Mercy" (Arnaud Desplechin)	[4.55/37 1.7]
178.	"Wara No Tate (Shield of Straw)" (Takashi Miike)	[4.55/64 2.0]
179.	"Szelíd Teremtés - A Frankenstein Terv (Tender Son - The Frankenstein Project)" (Kornél Mundruczó)	[4.50/9 2.1]
180.	"Aus dem Nichts (In the Fade)" (Fatih Akin) Best Actress	[4.45/109 2.2]
181.	"Rizhao Chongqing (Chongqing Blues)" (Wang Xiaoshuai)	[4.32/28 1.7]
182.	"Mal de pierres (From the Land of the Moon)" (Nicole Garcia)	[4.29/83 1.9]
183.	"The Captive" (Atom Egoyan)	[4.28/69 2.1]
184.	"Jupiter's Moon" (Kornel Mondruczo)	[4.28/125 1.9]
185.	"Mon Roi" (Maïwenn)	[4.14/60 2.2]
186.	"Girls of the Sun (Les filles du soleil)" (Eva Husson)	[4.09/127 2.1]
187.	"Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo" (Abdellatif Kechiche)	[4.00/1 0.0]
188.	"L'Apollonide" (Bertrand Bonello)	[3.93/31 2.6]
189.	"Baad El Mawkeaa (After the Battle)" (Yousry Nasrallah)	[3.86/63 1.3]
190.	"Rodin" (Francois Doillon)	[3.73/98 1.7]
191.	"Do-nui mat (Taste of Money)" (Im Sangsoo)	[3.69/29 1.7]
192.	"La nostra vita (Our Life)" (Daniele Luchetti)	[3.59/22 1.9]
193.	"The Paperboy" (Lee Daniels)	[3.41/51 1.8]
194.	"Biutiful" (Alejandro González-Iñarritu)	[3.40/20 2.4]
195.	"Utomlyonnye Solntsem 2: Predstoyanie (The Exodus - Burnt by the sun 2)" (Nikita Mikhalkov)	[3.39/9 1.5]
196.	"Marguerite et Julien" (Valérie Donzelli)	[3.30/70 1.6]
197.	"The Source" (Radu Mihaileanu)	[3.12/13 2.0]
198.	"The Search" (Michel Hazanavicius)	[2.90/57 1.8]
199.	"The Sea of Trees" (Gus Van Sant)	[2.68/81 1.6]
200.	"The Last Face" (Sean Penn)	[1.69/74 1.4]

Also, what in the actual fuck.

113.	"Copie conforme (Certified Copy)" (Abbas Kiarostami)	[5.94/26 1.7]

otoh a great placement for

194. "Biutiful" (Alejandro González-Iñarritu) [3.40/20 2.4]

Pain and Glory could end up #3, since Il Traditore is showing today and only has one vote so far

(one review)

apparently I Lost My Body Jérémy Clapin is the first animated film to win the Critics' Week grand prize

*by Jérémy Clapin

Pretty shocked to see Marguerite & Julien so low. The Cannes critics needs to make way for a younger generation.

Jarmusch I bet

the reactions to Mektoub My Love: Intermezzo are...interesting

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

The Variety review is hilarious. I feel for everyone who sat through that.

None of these in the running?

https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2019/may/23/the-worst-movie-posters-at-cannes-2019

I kinda feel like the chance of Inarritu awarding anything to a woman is nil. But hey, Bong would be the first Korean winner. So, progress...

Powerful man is aggressive when challenged; woman has to defuse the simmering rage of powerful man; other men stand silently by https://t.co/kliq7IBTuF

— Katherine Angel (@KayEngels) May 24, 2019

Hope they Lars Avon Trier him

A’von

other men stand silently by

The question wasn't directed to them, it was to QT and Margot.

it's a pretty innocuous response

and it's not like Tarantino has shied away from giving women substantial roles, so the lack of dialogue is obviously a deliberate choice

The thread was deleted (apparently a lot of dudes were piling on) but iirc it was an aggressive, short, putdown. Just weird.

If he expanded a bit, talked about the aesthetic choices etc. that thread would not have been written.

Variety, on Intermezzo:

Up onto the central platform we go, where rotating permutations of the female friend group get in booty-shaking formation for Marco Graziaplena and Jérémie Attar’s closely appreciative camera; down we swing into the tipsy, sticky-floored melee, where the others idly gossip and passive-aggressively flirt; back up to the platform for a new round of vigorous group pole-dancing, and so on and so forth, ad nauseum. It’s a blaring endurance test, and designed as such: Eventually, the taunting irony sets in of Kechiche starting this ordeal with the tetchy disco swirl of Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand’s “Enough is Enough.”

AA Dowd's review includes the new-to-me tidbit that Kekiche sold his Palme to bankroll the first Mektoub after his financiers bailed during post-production

I wonder if he tried to get Adele and Lea to sell their Palmes, too

Drudge on Intermezzo:

French Director Trolls Cannes With 3-1/2 Hour Pornographic 'Provocation'...

Critics lambast 'leery, retrograde'...

I thought the story was that they found out he was planning to make what he had said would be one film into two films, at seven hours length all in all. The fun part is that there's still supposed to be a third one...

weird to me that blue is the warmest colour was a hit when it was also v much leery and retrograde

critical hit i should say

2013 was also the year of "Blurred Lines." that movie couldn't have been successful even a year later, it got in right under the wire.

but I do maintain that Blue is the Warmest Color is the first successful cinematic pornography, the movie that Burt Reynolds dreams of making in Boogie Nights.

Also, according to that link above, the single best-reviewed competition film in the last decade at the time, and basically reviled today.

With 80 ratings in now, Intermezzo is both the lowest-rated competition title with the highest standard deviation:

1.	"Parasite (Gisaengchung)" (Bong Joon-ho)	[8.59/252 1.2]
2.	"Pain & Glory (Dolor y gloria)" (Pedro Almodovar)	[8.43/241 1.2]
3.	"Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu)" (Céline Sciamma)	[8.01/234 1.7]
4.	"It Must Be Heaven" (Elia Suleiman, Palestine)	[8.00/2 1.0]
5.	"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" (Quentin Tarantino)	[7.52/182 1.6]
6.	"The Traitor (Il traditore)" (Marco Bellocchio)	[7.42/63 1.4]
7.	"A Hidden Life (Une vie cachée)" (Terrence Malick)	[6.98/240 2.0]
8.	"Sorry we missed you" (Ken Loach)	[6.94/240 1.8]
9.	"Bacurau (Nighthawk)" (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles, BR)	[6.93/269 1.6]
10.	"Les Misérables" (Ladj Ly)	[6.70/232 1.7]
11.	"The Whistlers (La Gomera)" (Corneliu Porumboiu)	[6.46/165 1.6]
12.	"Atlantics (Atlantique)" (Mati Diop)	[6.39/232 1.6]
13.	"The Wild Goose Lake (Nan Fang Che Zhan De Ju Hui)" (Diao Yinan, China)	[6.39/161 1.4]
14.	"Matthias and Maxime" (Xavier Dolan)	[6.19/250 2.0]
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15.	"The Dead Don’t Die" (Jim Jarmusch) Opener	[5.98/585 1.3]
16.	"Little Joe" (Jessica Hausner)	[5.85/193 1.6]
17.	"Sibyl" (Justine Triet, F)	[5.71/7 2.1]
18.	"Young Ahmed (Le jeune Ahmed)" (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)	[5.64/210 1.7]
19.	"Frankie" (Ira Sachs)	[5.40/173 1.7]
20.	"Oh Mercy" (Arnaud Desplechin)	[4.81/121 1.7]
21.	"Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo" (Abdellatif Kechiche)	[4.77/80 2.8]

OK now I really want to read a rave for the Kekiche

The fun part is that there's still supposed to be a third one...

The third part will just be him jerking it to the Cannes premiere of Pt II

It's not even really the press conferences, but back to back headlines about Choice Soundbites from Mssrs. Dolan/Kechiche, aieeee.

— Vadim Rizov (@vrizov) May 24, 2019

Just digging through our history of predicting these ...

2018
We Predicted:

Blackkklansman, dir: Spike Lee / Lazzaro Felice, dir: Alice Rohrwacher	5

Shoplifters, dir: Kore-Eda Hirokazu	2

2017
We Predicted:

“The Killing of a Sacred Deer” directed by Yorgos Lanthimos	6

The Square

2016
We Predicted:

Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)	6

I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)	3

2015
We Predicted:

Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)	4

Dheepan (Jacques Audiard)	3

2014
We Predicted:

Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)	2

Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)	2

2013
We Predicted:

The Immigrant, dir: James Gray	4

La Vie D'Adele, dir: Abdellatif Kechiche	1

2012
We Predicted:

"Like Someone in Love," Abbas Kiarostami	4

"Amour," Michael Haneke	1

2011
We Predicted:

Nicolas Winding Refn - Drive / Paolo Sorrentino - This Must be the Place / Terrence Malick - The Tree of Life	1

Terrence Malick - The Tree of Life	1

2010
We Predicted:

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)	6

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)	6

2009
We Predicted:

"Antichrist," Denmark-Sweden-France-Italy, Lars von Trier	6

"The White Ribbon," Germany-Austria-France, Michael Haneke	2

2008
We Predicted:

SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK	directed by Charlie KAUFMAN	3

ENTRE LES MURS	(THE CLASS)	directed by Laurent CANTET	0

2007
We Predicted:

My Blueberry Nights, Hong Kong-France-China, Wong Kar Wai / The Man From London, Germany-France-U.K.-Hungary, Bela Tarr	3

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Romania, Cristian Mungiu	0

Sorry that looks ugly as hell. But so were most of our predictions.

I feel good about the board's prediction this year.

Un Certain Regard winners...

« UN CERTAIN REGARD » PRIZE
A VIDA INVISÍVEL DE EURÍDICE GUSMÃO
(LA VIE INVISIBLE D’EURÍDICE GUSMÃO/THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF EURÍDICE GUSMÃO)
BY KARIM AÏNOUZ

JURY PRIZE
O QUE ARDE
(VIENDRA LE FEU/FIRE WILL COME)
BY OLIVER LAXE

PRIZE FOR BEST PERFORMANCE
CHIARA MASTROIANNI
FOR CHAMBRE 212 (ON A MAGICAL NIGHT) BY CHRISTOPHE HONORÉ

PRIZE FOR BEST DIRECTOR
KANTEMIR BALAGOV
FOR BEANPOLE (UNE GRANDE FILLE)

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
LIBERTÉ
BY ALBERT SERRA

JURY’S « COUP DE CŒUR » (Ex-aequo)
LA FEMME DE MON FRÈRE (A BROTHER’S LOVE)
BY MONIA CHOKRI
THE CLIMB
BY MICHAEL ANGELO COVINO

JURY SPECIAL MENTION
JEANNE (JOAN OF ARC)
BY BRUNO DUMONT

That looks really good, though I'm not the world's biggest fan of Aïnouz. But Serra and Laxe ftw!

https://film.avclub.com/guessing-the-winners-and-picking-our-own-at-the-end-o-1835011696/amp

would love to see the Sciamma win.

Indiewire is predicting Pain and Glory:

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/05/cannes-2019-palme-dor-contenders-winners-prediction-1202141512/

all of the diverging reviews of Mektoub make me curious about it. I really liked Blue Is the Warmest Color

Diverging? Most everyone seems clear it's a piece of shit.

Again, if anyone spots a rave, please share it here.

I haven’t seen any raves, but the ratings on the Todas las Criticas grid (Apitchatpoll) place it in the middle of the competition pack, and the discussion of it on the awards watch forum is somewhat interesting (if you can stand the horrible interface)

I like this paragraph from Cineuropa (badly translated), which comes after a description of the plot: “The tireless partying and fun, reproduced without filter and with overflowing duration by the filmmaker up until a particularly crude climactic scene (but one dominated by a woman), are dotted with micro-events, brief looks or exchanges at the bar, in a continuous flood of sound, an exponential consumption of alcohol, and a loosening of cultural mores which “doesn’t do things by halves”. In this boiling aquarium, Abdellatif Kechiche details all the “good and bad sides” of a stupendous and highly energetic moment with fabulous virtuosity in his mise en scène. But his commitment to a radically elongated runtime — oscillating from hypnosis to overload — and to the deliberate, repetitive onslaught of sexualised dances he orchestrates, will require great tolerance and a firmly open mind for the viewer to truly appreciate the real value of the film as a whole.”

the ratings on the Todas las Criticas grid (Apitchatpoll) place it in the middle of the competition pack

Cool. It has 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.

yeah it's probably really bad, but even the bad reviews make it sound at least somewhat interesting (to me)

It's produced some of the only inspired pans I've read in a while, at least.