da Cannes Luigi Noera (photo courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival)
If last year the Italian filmmakers (and filmmakers) They had collected the crumbs, This year Italy has remained high and dry. Although Cannes audiences have appreciated Make Beautiful Marco Bellocchio Dreams Flower by Claudio Giovannesi, the gap with the other films in competition in the same independent section was not objectively colmabile. Either we go to the stars tested which are awarded by the jury of the 69th Cannes Film Festival, chaired by George Miller, that in addition to award the shares paid tribute to France represented by Oliver Assays. At the bottom we report our first impressions in the form of liking.
During the awards ceremony Sunday 22 May were
France 4 Visionary Award ad ALBUM di Mehmet Can Mertoğlu
1. But 'Rosa (Brillante Mendoza, Philippines)
announced the names of Winners Palmares 2016. Laurent Lafitte welcomed the winners and guests who delivered them Palmares on stage at the Grand Theater Lumiere, while the American actor, Mel Gibson, He had the honor of bestowing the Palme d'Or for the best film of 21 in competition and the French actor, Jean-Pierre Léaud, by Arnaud Desplechin he has received the Palme d'honorary.
After the awards ceremony to close this edition 2016 Festival was the film Palme d'Or
I, DANIEL BLAKE di Ken Loach
But here are the prizes of the official selection:
FEATURE FILMS
Palma d'oro I, Daniele BLAKE in Ken Loach
Big prize JUST THE END OF THE WORLD in Xavier Dolan
Award for Best Director ex aequo to Cristian Mungiu baccalaureatee Olivier Assayas per PERSONAL SHOPPER
Award for Best Screenplay in Asghar Farhadi Bode work (The Salesman)
Jury Award to American Honey Andrea Arnold
Best Actress Jaclyn JOSE Prize MA 'ROSA Brillante Mendoza
Award best actor Shahab Hosseini in Bode work (The Salesman) di Asghar Farhadi
In addition, the Ecumenicale Jury Awards went to Xavier Dolan, Andrea Arnold e Ken Loach, while the FIPRESCI Jury Prize went to Maren ADE Toni Erdman.
SHORT FILMS
Palma d'oro TIMECODE in Juanjo GIMENEZ
Special mention to Un MOCA who danced WITH THE DEVIL(The Girl Who Danced With the Devil) di John Paul MIRANDA MARIA
The Camera d'Or for best first went to DIVINEHouda Benyamina presented in the independent section Fortnight, the CST Jury has also assigned the VULCAN AWARD OF THE TECHNICAL ARTIST to Seong-HIE RYU, for art direction done with great inspiration of the film MISS (Agassi) Park Chan-wook.
We also remember the prizes of sidebar In some perspective given the previous day by the jury chaired Swiss actress Marthe Keller:
Premio Un Certain Regard a smiling man (The most beautiful day in the life Olli Mäki)di Juho Kuosmanen
Jury Prize Fuchi NI Tatsu (Harmonium) di Fukada Kôji
Award for Best Director Matt Ross CAPITAN FANTASTIC
Award for Best Screenplay Delphine and Muriel Coulin Coulin for SEE THE COUNTRY
Special Prize Un Certain Regard Turtle RED di Michael Dudok de Wit
FIPRESCI Jury Prize for American Bogdan DOGS.
While the Jury Cinéfondation e Short Films chaired by Naomi Kawase, He has awarded the following prizes 2016 Cinéfondation whose selection 18 student films were selected from among 2.350 films from 548 film schools in the world, during a cerimonia the Buñuel Theater, which was followed by the screening of the winning film.
First prize ANNA Or in Sinai – The Sam Spiegel Film & TV School, Israel
Second prize IN THE HILLS in Hamid Ahmadi – The London Film School, UK
Third prize ex aequo The sounds NYALINTÁS di Nadja Andrasev – Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Hungary and THE BLAME, PROBABLY The Michael Labarca – University of the Andes, Venezuela
As for the Jury awards 55esima Critics Week with President Valérie Donzelli:
Nespresso Grand Prize a MIMOSAS says Oliver Laxe
France 4 Visionary Award ad ALBUM di Mehmet Can Mertoğlu Leica Cine Discovery Prize for short films a prenjak of Wregas Bhanuteja
Awards Partner:
Gan Foundation Award for Distribution a Sophie Dulac, France ONE WEEK AND A DAY (SHAVUA VE YOM) di Asaph Polonsky
SACD Award Davy Chou and Claire Maugendre co-writers of DIAMOND ISLAND
Canal + Award short films CHILDREN OF CHIEF di Antoine de Bary
In the autonomous selection Quinzaine des filmThey have been assigned the following minor prizes:
Art Cinema Award : Wolf and Sheep di Shahrbanoo Sadat
SACD prize : The aquatic effect di Solveig Anspach
Special mention to divine The Houda Benyamina
Label Europa Cinemas a Mercenary Sacha Wolff
Illy price of an ad courtometragggio : Royal Hunt di Lise Akoka & Romane Gueret
After nzione disperia referred ciale and Prov (The Beast) di Miroslav Sikavica. The FIPRESCI Jury Prize went to Julia for Ducournau Grave.
Finally some news on the Queer Palm 2016 that went to the documentary Les vies de Thérèse (Fortnight) di Sebastien Lifshitz, while the Short Queer Palm was awarded to the short GABBER LOVER, directed by Anna-CAZENAVE Cambet (Cinéfondation). After much discussion, The jury unanimously decided to award the Queer Palm to two films that illustrate how two women, a teenager and the other on his deathbed- They struggled and managed to shape their life.
But let the evaluation of films. For what concerns us, having seen all films in competition, with the exception of Alain Guiraudie film (France) Rester Vertical, here is our ranking staff, in which we added to the end of the film out of competition seen in order of rating:
1. But 'Rosa (Brillante Mendoza, Philippines) 2. It’s Only the End of the World (Xavier Dolan, Canada)
3. American Honey (Andrea Arnold, UK)
4. The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi, Iran)
5. Ma Loute (Bruno Dumont, France)
6. baccalaureate (Cristian Mungiu, Romania)
7. I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach, UK)
8. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch, US)
9. Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil)
10. The Handmaid (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
11. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, Germany)
12. Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
13. Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, France)
14. Julieta (Pedro Almodovar, Spain)
15. Sore Stones (Nicole Garcia, Algeria)
16. The Unknown Girl (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgium)
17. She (Paul Verhoeven, France)
18. Loving (Jeff Nichols, US)
19. The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, US)
20. The Last Face (Sean Penn, US) It remains by far the most bad movie!
For the poetic Special screenings The dunce
While the awards went to Divines (Houda Benyamina), The Lives of Thérèse (Sébastien Lifshitz), Mercenary (Sacha Wolff) e a Wolf and Sheep (Shahrbanoo Sadat).
Few talk about it, next to the Cannes Film Festival, in the nearby church of Notre Dame de Bon Voyage Festival takes place a little one and the same big time The Festival of Sacred Beauty, reached its third edition. This year one of the promoters, the beloved actor Michael Lonsdale, He moved us with his interpretation of the Cross. With this we want to thank him mention.
(Paul Vecchiali, France) e il gang movie Chouf (Karim Dridi, France), per Midnight screenings, in order of rating, he doc Gimme Danger
(Jim Jarmusch, US) e Blood Father (Jean-François Richet, France.
As for the selection in the margins In some perspective, our vision is limited to a third of the films that we report in order of rating:
1. Turtle Rogue (Michael Dudok de Wit, Netherlands)
2. Fuchi Ni Tatsu (Kôji Fukada, Japan)
3. After the Storm (Kore-eda Hirokazu, Japan)
4. Me’Ever Laharim Vehagvoat (Eran Kolirin, Israel)
5. Varoonegi (Behnam Behzadi, Iran)
6. See the Country (Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin, France)
7. Long Night of Francisco Sanctis (Francisco Marquez & Andrea Testa)
And then having omitted the remaining films including both Cains (Bogdan Mirică), sia Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross, US) Instead they have won. Recall that in this section was also present the Italian film Pericles Nero di Stefano Mordini with a appaluditissimo Scamarcio.
Of the popular films of the Directors 'Fortnight and Critics' Week of the autonomous sections only, respectively Diamond Island (Davy Chou) he was awarded. In fact for the Directors' Fortnight we have seen in order of rating:
1. Tour de France (Rachid Djaïdani)
2. Dog Eat Dog (Paul Schrader)
3. Neruda (Pablo Larraín)
While the awards went to Divines (Houda Benyamina), The Lives of Thérèse (Sébastien Lifshitz), Mercenary (Sacha Wolff) e a Wolf and Sheep (Shahrbanoo Sadat).For the Critics' Week we saw in addition to Diamond Island (Davy Chou), Also unresolved at the Yellow Bird (K Rajagopal) and the film out of competition will be more Happy Times pretentious Alessandro Comodin. The prizes are gone Album (Mehmet Can Mertoğlu), The aquatic effect (Solveig Anspach), Raw (Julia Ducournau), Mimosas (Oliver Laxe) e a One Week and a Day (Asaph Polonsky).
Probably some of the latter will be taken by the usual Cannes Festival in June in Rome.
The Cannes Festival also provides opportunity to show a preview of new products in the area of the Marche du Film. One of those who has had good success is the Asian production of a legendary hero of the Far East BILAL.
Few talk about it, next to the Cannes Film Festival, in the nearby church of Notre Dame de Bon Voyage Festival takes place a little one and the same big time The Festival of Sacred Beauty, reached its third edition. This year one of the promoters, the beloved actor Michael Lonsdale, He moved us with his interpretation of the Cross. With this we want to thank him mention.