Who will win the Palme at Cannes? [2022 edition]

Who woulda thunk that there would’ve been concessions to commerce in the TikTok Palme race?

Bacurau really has to be seen in a cinema full of Brazilian expats shouting "Lula livre!" imo.

― Daniel_Rf, Friday, May 20, 2022 6:01 AM (five hours ago)

lol that was def the case when the crew came to present the movie at Lincoln Center for NYFF just before covid, banners and all in the audience. there was a q&a after, and someone asked why the American villains were so clichéd – he answered 'Well I love the 1st Die Hard, but the villain was called HANS GRUBER, so here's your answer' ahahaha

Neighboring Sounds was filmed in my neighborhood - literally some 5 blocks away from where I lived most of my life. It's funny to watch such a specific slice of Brazilian life being portrayed. My favorite of his movies

Enys Men sounds right up my street.

xp I wasn't expecting much from Neighboring Sounds but the sound design was incredible, and the combination of clashes between different socioeconomic groups with different aspirations was fascinating

some of the films that have shown up so far sound interesting - The Eight Mountains, EO, Triangle of Sadness, RMN

RMN is apparently an abbreviation for magnetic resonance imaging but I have to believe is also a reference to Romania

I enjoyed reading the different takes on Triangle of Sadness (the space between the eyes and above the bridge of the nose)

David Ehrlich (who didn’t like it in the end):

“It starts, as all movies should, in the world of high-end male modeling. A muted and dangerously almost-smart Derek Zoolander type who Harris Dickinson plays to perfection, the 25-year-old Carl is reaching the geriatric stage of his career, and the anxiety over his economic future is starting to make his eight-pack look two abs short.”

erickohn
@erickohn

TRIANGLE OF SADNESS splits the difference between Karl Marx and the Marx brothers for a zany romp that starts off by whispering “class satire” then screams it. I had a blast… will be even more fun to argue about than THE SQUARE!

Cédric Succivalli
@OnTheLido

I am sorry but TRIANGLE OF SADNESS didn't do it at for me. I liked its cynicism to start with but then Östlund was really trying too hard and the third part on the island was a disaster, no pun intended.

Marc v.d. Klashorst
@MarcVDKlashorst

TRIANGLE OF SADNESS is a wonderfully cynical remake of Lost. It moved me to tears. Of laughter, but still: tears.

Richard Lawson
@rilaws

Harris Dickinson is beautiful in TRIANGLE OF SADNESS, a movie about Harris Dickinson being beautiful and, uh, I dunno, class struggle or something.

douglas greenwood
@douglasgrnwd

Ruben Östlund voodoo dolls the SHIT out of the super wealthy and the instafamous for 2.5 hours in TRIANGLE OF SADNESS and I had a really fucking great time!! Raucous and repulsive, very much his usual territory, but my god he knows it well

We've reached the halfway mark of #Cannes2022 alive and well (sort of), and notice a film about a donkey leading the pack in our grid. Who would have thought? https://t.co/CLWG48cPNz pic.twitter.com/1E1y53QLCE

— IntlCinephileSociety (@ICSfilm) May 23, 2022

Bummer on the Desplechin, but he seems to have been on a decline for quite some time now.

I have been debating whether to watch Esther Kahn, which I believe you and Morbs disagreed on, before it leaves MUBI USA, or Deception, which just arrived there.

Also, missed this year's Queer Palme nominees:

The Blue Caftan (Le Bleu du caftan) — Maryam Touzani
Burning Days (Kurak Günler) — Emin Alper
Close — Lukas Dhont
Continental Drift (South) (La Dérive des continents (au sud)) — Lionel Baier
Diary of a Fleeting Affair (Chronique d'une liaison passagère) — Emmanuel Mouret
Dodo — Panos H. Koutras
The Five Devils (Les Cinq Diables) — Léa Mysius
Forever Young (Les Amandiers) — Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Irma Vep — Olivier Assayas
Joyland — Saim Sadiq
A Male (Un Varón) — Fabián Hernández
Moonage Daydream — Brett Morgen
Pacifiction (Tourment sur les îles) — Albert Serra
Riposte féministe — Marie Perennès, Simon Depardon
Rodéo — Lola Quivoron
Tchaikovsky's Wife — Kirill Serebrennikov
Will-o'-the-Wisp (Fogo-Fatuo) — João Pedro Rodrigues

Did you use the code tags for that list?

Yeah

I think it's very rude of them not to include the movie with Harris Dickenson on this list of nominees.

Welp, there's my new #1 right there:

A true #Cannes film : DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA, a grotesque and beautiful tapestry of medical procedures that transforms the viscera into pure poetry. THE ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE’S OWN EYES meets LEVIATHAN. Harvard Sensory Ethnographic Lab FTW! pic.twitter.com/nc5G74SQPq

— erickohn (@erickohn) May 23, 2022

The most shocking thing about CRIMES OF THE FUTURE is Kristen Stewart’s newfound willingness to do an Outlandish Voice

— Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) May 23, 2022

This year is just top to bottom ... shrug emoji.

https://d1nslcd7m2225b.cloudfront.net/Pictures/780xany/8/0/1/1371801_onlinejurygridday10_456189_crop.jpg

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Seems like it’s Decision’s to lose

Close has gotten initial reviews that are all over the place (like many of the films this year), but it sounds like something I will like, so I voted for it

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

Robbie Collin
@robbiereviews

Well – I loved everything about Lukas Dhont’s miraculous Close, which I think might well win the Palme d’Or. Tried to explain the premise to someone earlier and couldn’t even get through that without sobbing. It’s an extremely special film.

Jordan Ruimy
@mrRuimy

The first 40 or so minutes of Lukas Dhont’s CLOSE are beautifully understated and then a plot twist completely destroys the movie. This is such an emotionally manipulative film, and the violin-tinged score only makes it worse

Tim Grierson
@TimGrierson

CLOSE: Because boys aren’t taught how to talk about their feelings, they’re ill-equipped to grapple with their pain or those close to them. Lukas Dhont’s unconventional coming-of-age drama is about emotional development more than anything else. Reserved but affecting.

david ehrlich
@davidehrlich

CLOSE: deeply mixed on Lukas Dhont’s latest coming-of-age drama, which renders its young leads with great sensitivity only to come down on them with all the care of a sledgehammer.

Donald Clarke
@DonaldClarke63

There has been gossip all week at #Cannes2022 about the quality of Lukas Dhont’s CLOSE. Deserved. Study of adolescent trauma leaves every other competition film (in an indifferent year, mind) in the dust. Extraordinarily moving.

Serra's Pacifiction seems like it might be really good too

Happy to have a truly polarizing movie finally

Good set of predictions based on what I’ve read (no doubt they’ll be totally wrong)

My Cannes predictions…
Palme: CLOSE
Grand Prize: DECISION TO LEAVE
Director: David Cronenberg (CRIMES OF THE FUTURE)
Actor: Mehdi Bajestani (HOLY SPIDER)
Actress: Judith State (R.M.N.)
Screenplay: TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
Jury Prize: TORI AND LOKITA pic.twitter.com/vGdRl2WwaW

— Scott Feinberg (@ScottFeinberg) May 27, 2022

Queer Palme went to Joyland, directed by Saim Sadiq, apparently the first Pakistani feature film shown at Cannes

Un Certain Regard awards:

Prix Un Certain Regard: The Worst Ones (Les Pires) - Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret
Jury Prize: Joyland - Saim Sadiq
Best Director: Metronom - Alexandru Belc
Best Performance: Vicky Krieps, Corsage and Adam Bessa, Harka
Best Screenplay: Mediterranean Fever - Maha Haj
Coup de Coeur Award: Rodeo - Lola Quivoron

xp that's cool

Hlynur Palmason’s Godland, in Un Certain Regard, also got good reviews and the images I've seen from it look intriguing

from the reviews I've read of Kelly Reichardt's Showing Up I think I will really like it

after many rejugglings these are the Neil Young’s Film Lounge final Palme D’Or and Acting-Prize odds:

https://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/reviews/cannes2022/

not sure where they come up with this. this website gave Titane only 22-1 odds last year in the end, although its top prediction, A Hero, won Grand Prix

Live stream of closing ceremony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9IAvOqaDCg

The Award for Best Actress goes to Zar AMIR EBRAHIMI in HOLY SPIDER (LES NUITS DE MASHHAD) by Ali ABBASI#Cannes2022 #Palmares #Awards #HOLYSPIDER
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Prix d’interprétation féminine pour Zar AMIR EBRAHIMI dans HOLY SPIDER réalisé par Ali ABBASI#Cannes2022 #Palmares #Awards pic.twitter.com/rD82TZMDNF

— Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) May 28, 2022

livestream of ceremony here:

https://www.facebook.com/brutamerica

Screenplay: Boy From Heaven, Tarik Saleh (not a popular choice among my twitter follows)

On the flip, this seems very much popular...

Best Actor: Song Kang-ho, BROKER

"I would like to thank my donkeys, all six of them."

The Cannes jury prize (3rd place) is a tie between EO and THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS. pic.twitter.com/DWuG93kFxV

— Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) May 28, 2022

I thought for a moment that Jerzy Skolimowski had forgotten the name of one of his donkeys but it was just a pregnant pause. Good speech.

So the jury prize covers eight donkeys in total?

On the flip, this seems very much popular...

Best Actor: Song Kang-ho, BROKER

I missed big chunks of the competition program but I predict prizes for Close, Decision to Leave and an acting prize for Mother and Son. Probably something undeserved for the utterly dismal Broker. Wildcard prediction: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi for a direction or screenplay.

— Wendy Ide (@wendyide) May 28, 2022

Song Kang-Ho is a great actor but I don't think he's all that in BROKER! Oh well!

— Caspar Salmon (@CasparSalmon) May 28, 2022

So, ties in both jury and grand prix?! Dang, guess this wasn't a lean year after all.

Everybody gets a prize!

I just can't get excited for a Östlund double-dip.

agree

Awful film. Awful.

— David Jenkins (@daveyjenkins) May 28, 2022

ugh

— Elena Lazic (@elazic) May 28, 2022

If I was on the Cannes jury, I would’ve lobbied to give the awards to good movies, but maybe that’s why I’m not!

— Charles Bramesco (@intothecrevasse) May 28, 2022

No one wins the prestigious ILX poll.

I mean, a three-way and four-way tie in the ILX poll came pretty spiritually close to being correct.

I liked that in his post-Cannes press conference Lukas Dhont talked about being a mama’s boy and about wanting to make a film about mothers and sons

Fucks sake I nearly posted "anybody but Ostlund" this afternoon. The Banky of world cinema

xp also his awards speech where he talked about how our collective prevailing images of men are all about violence, and that he wanted to make a movie about the opposite, to express that empathy, openness and fragility can also be powerful

And then RO immediately afterward cajoled the crowd into another primal scream.

exactly

I guess Östlund is good at coming up with memorable scenes. In The Square it was the outrageous, threatening, performance-art dinner scene (which is still imbedded in my mind)

I haven't seen this film, but from what I've read there is also a scene in this film that everyone who's seen it is talking about

still it is not my kind of film

I just want to watch it to see Harris Dickinson with his shirt off

the films I'm most looking forward to from this festival are Close, Showing Up, Pacifiction, RMN, Decision To Leave, and Tori and Lokita

Holy Spider also sounds interesting, and has the best title of all

listened to Nicholas Rapold's recent Cannes podcast with Manohla Dargis. She spoke about Broker, Leila's Brothers, Mother and Son, and being able to anticipate every scene in Triangle of Sadness (and hating it)

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-126-cannes-12-with-manohla-dargis-broker-hollywood/id1512801510?i=1000564859783

also his podcast with Justin Chang about Showing Up, Tori and Lokita, Close, and George Miller

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-125-cannes-11-with-justin-chang-showing-up-tori/id1512801510?i=1000564480040

I love Nicolas Rapold, he seems sexy to me in a nerdy way

I liked the talk about how it's a tedious job acknowledging the glamour of Cannes and its nostalgia, the ridiculousness of Tom Cruise's fighter jets, Baz Luhrmann, beautiful women on the red carpet, etc, but also how Cannes needs to cultivate that stuff as part of its mystique

Rapold has spoken to multiple critics about EO, but Dargis mentioned the barbarism toward animals, and they discussed the idea that the visual craziness of the film maybe represented the donkey's perspective

In regards to EO she talked about how we are really far removed from the natural world now to our inevitable peril and doom, and how that was the reason it was the defining film of the festival for her

Yeah, I really like Rapold too. His podcast (along with Film Comment's) was once again my daily companion through the festival.

Wellllll....

‘Triangle of Sadness’ Director Ruben Östlund to Preside Over Cannes Jury https://t.co/ke9QcJi9av

— Variety (@Variety) February 28, 2023

thoughts and prayers

It's time again: https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=113740