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« Cannes, Chastain, Critics | Main | Red Carpet & Un Certain Regard Prizes »
Saturday
May252013

Cannes Endeth. Who Picks Up The Laurels?

Mr & Mrs Polanski hit the red carpet for the premiere of their picture VENUS IN FUREach year round about this time I find it greatly amusing that people think they have even the slightest idea who will win the Cannes prizes. It's a mystery - though Guy Lodge does a beautiful job of summing up the possibilities here.

You can tie yourself into absolute knots coming up with scenarios and discarding them. But buzzy frontrunners there are so watch out for the sapphic Blue is the Warmest Color, the Italian entry The Great Beauty, Asghar Farhadi's latest The Past (like his masterpiece A Separation, it's said to be an intricately scripted divorce drama), and the Coen Bros - who have great luck at Cannes -  for Inside Llewyn Davis... and watch for someone french-speaking to win Best Actress: Cotillard (The Immigrant), Bejo (The Past), Seigner (Venus in Fur), Seydoux and Exarchopoulis (Blue is the Warmest Color)

Do you have any hunches? I'm too busy fantasizing about what Nicole Kidman thinks of the competition films to make any guesses but I will admit to great curiousity as to whether the jury will feel any sentimental pull to give Soderbergh something for his final film Behind the Candelabra considering that he began his career with a Palme for sex, lies and videotape (1989). What a story that would be, right? 

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Reader Comments (15)

I keep doing this (sorry!) but it's "Exarchopoulos" and she'll win. Be amused! :p

OK, no idea about who'll win but I'm really excited to see "Blue is the Warmest Color", "..Candelabra" and "The Immigrant."

May 26, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterJames T

I love James Gray, and I am rooting for him. He should have won the Palm for The Yards!

May 26, 2013 | Unregistered Commentercal roth

My hunch is that The Past will take Best Screenplay and Best Actress. Palm d'Or goes to Blue is the warmest color , Grand Jury prize to Venus in Fur and Best Director to Passolini. And I guess actor'll go to Douglas (ex aequo or not with Damon)

May 26, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterCarlos

I really wish that Behind the Candelabra was being released theatrically. I miss having Michael Douglas in great films on-screen.

My gut is telling me Blue is the Warmest Color is taking the Palme.

May 26, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterJohn T

I'm too busy fantasizing about what Nicole Kidman thinks of the competition films

Have you entertained the possibility that Kidman didn't allow her ferociousness out because there were auteurs present?

May 26, 2013 | Unregistered Commenter3rtful

when does the award ceremony start?

is there a live stream?

May 26, 2013 | Unregistered Commentermarcelo

marcelo - here http://www.canalplus.fr/pid3580-c-live-tv-clair.html# Awards soon.

May 26, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterJames T

James T - thank you!

May 26, 2013 | Unregistered Commentermarcelo

James T - are you already watching the ceremony? here I get "prochain rendez vous a 19h00" (something like next meeting/event at 7) and a 4h48 countdown.

May 26, 2013 | Unregistered Commentermarcelo

I'm thinking Le Passé takes the Palme. Spielberg was very gung ho on A Separation if I remember correctly and something tells me that a three hour lesbian erotic drama is just not his cup of tea. Blue Is The Warmest Color could get Director or Grand Prix.

May 26, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterTB

bérénice bejo and bruce dern won the acting awards.

May 26, 2013 | Unregistered Commentermarcelo

Blue is the Warmest Color got the Palme.

May 26, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterJohn T

something tells me that a three hour lesbian erotic drama is just not his cup of tea

The man directed The Color Purple that deals with a lesbian affair.

May 26, 2013 | Unregistered Commenter3rtful

aren't lesbian dramas all (straight) men's cups of tea? (and many gay men's too)

May 26, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterNathaniel R

@3rtful-- But he softened the sexual content of The Color Purple A LOT for his film. I assumed based on his filmography that he would be on the side of critics who have been calling the scenes in Blue Is The Warmest Color gratuitous. Happy to have been proven wrong. Hopefully the prize helps the movie see distribution.

May 26, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterTB
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