Sunday was the final day of the Cannes Film Festival. I’m including some assorted photos from the final ceremony at the end of the post. I was reading through some last-day coverage, final thoughts and reviews of this year’s festival and I have to say… it sounds like this year’s Cannes was super-depressing. Like, the films were really, really sad. It must have been a tough year to be a judge. Anyway, here are some of the big winners (via THR):
The Palme d’Or. It was awarded to Dheepan, which is the biggest prize at Cannes. The film is about “a former soldier, a young woman and a little girl who pose as a family in order to escape the civil war in Sri Lanka.”
The runner-up (grand-prize) award went to Son of Saul. It’s a Holocaust movie about a man trying to bury his son in a concentration camp.
Best actress: a tie between Rooney Mara for Carol and Emmanuelle Bercot for Mon Roi. Many thought Cate Blanchett would win for Carol, since it’s more her movie than Rooney’s. The other thought was that Cate and Rooney would tie for Best Actress. But that didn’t happen.
Best actor: Vincent Lindon for The Measure of a Man.
Best Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien for The Assassin.
Jury prize: The Lobster, which is the romantic, dystopian drama starring Colin Farrell & Rachel Weisz.
Best screenplay: Michel Franco for Chronic.
Joel and Ethan Coen, Sienna Miller, Jake Gyllenaal and Guillermo del Toro were on this year’s jury, so they are responsible for all of this. A lot of people have mixed feelings about Deepan in particular – like, they think it was a solid film, but not really a Palme d’Or winner.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I swear I had forgotten all about Cannes. I’m sure there were great films but nothing got me interested.
Maybe they are trying to create some controversy to get people talking about it.
Well here in France, people are quite enthusiastic about it,since the three big prizes went to 3 Frenchies ( Emmanuelle Bercot who shares the prize with Ronney Mara is french too ). Vincent Lindon is a well known popular actor but he didn’t win any major prize yet , althought he was nominated many times for the Cesars. So people are very happy for him ( i certainly am !), he’s very appreciated ( oh and Sophie Marceau is a good friend of him) And Jacques Audiard ( the director if Dheepan) was considered long overdue too, in fact in 2009 he was already the big favorite for the Palme d’or with A Prophet.People back then were quite surprises that he didn’t win. And in 2012 he was a favorite too with Rust and Bones . I just heard in the news that the jury actually went pretty quickly for Dheepan .It was apprently not a difficult decision like it seems to be some years.
Just FYI, Rooney Mara is not French. She is American-born and raised with her family starting two American football teams (Giants and Steelers).
Well , i think it was clear i was talking about Emmanuelle Bercot-who shares the prize with Mara-not Mara herself.Bercot is definitely french . Since Bercot was the only one present To accept her prize ( Todd Haynes accepted Rooney s prize) ,and since she ´s french, she ‘ s all over the News, whe read Mara is kind of forgotten by the journalists, even the spécialised one.
Maybe I am the only one but I think there’s something creepy about Rooney Mara.
I am happy about the jury prize, I hope George Lanthimos (the director of the Lobster) will have a great career.
She’s a dead ringer for Loki from the Avengers.
You are so right! They’re twins! Loki & Rooney
There is something a bit off about her.She`s so damn miserable looking all the time, does this chick ever crack a smile?.
She’s still campaigning for the girl with the dragon tatoo sequel. That’s why she still has the bad Elvis shoe dye hair.
I don’t find her that interesting either. Trust fund baby.
Unlike many people on this site I actually like Rooney and think she’s a great actress, so I’m happy about this. I can’t wait to see “Carol” (love Cate Blanchett too).
+1
Rooney Mara was incredible in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I’m very sorry that it seems like the English language version of that trilogy will remain incomplete.
Don’t know any of Mara’s work except “Dragon” and I thought she was awful in it. She never got past the costume, like the costume was Lisbeth but Mara wasn’t. It’s like (warning nerd reference) when Willow was in that AU pretending to be her other self “I’m a blood-sucking fiend – look at my outfit!”.
I think so, too. She was the best thing in that silly movie with Catherine Zeta Jones, Channing Tatum and Jude Law…I can’t remember the name but she plays a woman who kills her husband.
She was even great in her few scenes in Her! I like her as an actress, her eyes are very expressive on screen.
I have mixed feelings seeing Sienna Miller as a judge…
@Greek Chic: Raises hand…no, not the only one. Rooney Mara creeps me out as well. Fine actress but…yeah, creepy.
It’s a depressing year for film because it was a depressing year.
Cate, like Julianne Moore, is way way WAY over-rated IMHO. Yay for Deepan!
Yeah! Michel Franco ¡venga México!
And I’m glad Rooney won, I like her better than Kate. I still think this year jury was weak, with Sienna and Jake, but that is just my opinion.
If I see Michelle Rodriguez handing out the Best Actor Award, I know something changed for the worse with Cannes. Very happy for Lindon, though. Wasn’t he with Caroline of Monaco ones?