Ruben Ostlund’s social satire “Triangle of Disappointment” has gained the Palme d’Or on the seventy fifth Cannes Movie Pageant, handing Ostlund considered one of cinema’s most prestigious prizes for the second time
Ruben Ostlund’s social satire “Triangle of Disappointment” has gained the Palme d’Or on the seventy fifth Cannes Movie Pageant, handing Ostlund considered one of cinema’s most prestigious prizes for the second time
Ruben Ostlund’s social satire “Triangle of Disappointment” gained the Palme d’Or on the seventy fifth Cannes Movie Pageant on Saturday, handing Ostlund considered one of cinema’s most prestigious prizes for the second time.
The competition additionally named Korean star Tune Kang Ho greatest actor for his efficiency in Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s movie “Dealer,” about Korean household in search of a house for an deserted child.
“I’d wish to thank all those that recognize Korean cinema,” mentioned Tune, who additionally starred in Bong Joon Ho’s Palme d’Or successful movie “Parasite” in Cannes three years in the past.
Greatest actress went to Zar Amir Ebrahimi for her efficiency as a journalist in Ali Abbasi’s “Holy Spider,” a true-crime thriller a few serial killer concentrating on intercourse staff within the Iranian non secular metropolis of Mashhad. Violent and graphic, “Holy Spider” wasn’t permitted to shoot in Iran and as a substitute was made in Jordan. Accepting the award, Ebrahimi mentioned the movie depicts “every thing that’s inconceivable to indicate in Iran.”
The awards have been chosen by a nine-member jury headed by French actor Vincent Lindon.
The jury prize was cut up between friendship story “The Eight Mountains,” by Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix Van Groeningen, and Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski’s “EO,” a few donkey’s journey throughout a pitiless fashionable Europe.
“I wish to thank my donkeys,” mentioned Skolimowski, who used six donkeys whereas making the movie.
Swedish-Egyptian filmmaker Tarik Saleh took greatest screenplay at Cannes for “Boy From Heaven,” a thriller set in Cairo’s Al-Azhar Mosque.
This yr’s award for greatest first movie, the Digital camera d’Or, went to Riley Keough and Gina Gammell for “Warfare Pony,” a drama in regards to the Pine Ridge Reservation made in collaboration with Oglala Lakota and Sicangu Lakota residents.
Saturday’s closing ceremony brings to a detailed a Cannes that has tried to totally resuscitate the annual France extravaganza which was canceled in 2020 by the pandemic and noticed modest crowds final yr. This yr’s competition additionally unspooled in opposition to the backdrop of the conflict in Ukraine, which sparked red-carpet protests and a dialogue in regards to the function of cinema in wartime.
Final yr, the French physique horror thriller “Titane” took the highest prize at Cannes, making director Julia Decournau solely the second feminine filmmaker ever to win the Palme. In 2019, Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” triumphed in Cannes earlier than doing the identical on the Academy Awards.
This yr, the largest Hollywood movies at Cannes — “Elvis,”“Prime Gun: Maverick,”“Three Thousand Years of Longing” — performed outdoors Cannes’ competitors lineup of 21 movies. However their presence helped restore a few of Cannes’ glamour after the pandemic cutting down the competition for the final two years.
