Cannes 2024

[Mister Tee]

By reports of who's been asked back, this ought to be the list of films contending for prizes:

Emilia Perez (Audiard)
Anora (Baker)
Megalopolis (Coppola)
The Substance (Fargeat)
Grand Tour (Gomes)
All We Imagine As Light (Kapadia)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Rasoulof)

Jia Zhangke posted (briefly; subsequently deleted) that CAUGHT BY THE TIDES won’t win any award.

[Okri]

And now The Seed of the Sacred Fig sounds like a Palme winner.

This fest really turned itself around.

If it wins, it will be Neon's 5th in a row (Parasite, Titane, Triangle of Sadness, Anatomy of a Fall being the other four)

[Sabin]

And now The Seed of the Sacred Fig sounds like a Palme winner.

This fest really turned itself around.

(NOTE: but it sounds like the magical realism of As We Imagine Light would also be very much up Gerwig’s alley)

[Sabin]

Good predictions although I think Grand Tour and Caught by the Tides will get something.

I’m half wondering if they create a special prize for Megalopolis.

[anonymous1980]

Cannes predictions:

Palme d'Or: Anora, Sean Baker
Grand Prix: The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Mohammad Rasoulof
Jury Prize: All We Imagine as Light, Payal Kapadia
Best Director: Francis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis
Best Actor: Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
Best Actress: Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Perez
Best Screenplay: Coralie Fargeat, The Substance

[Sabin]

I think Toni Erdmann had the highest rating in a decade and it won nothing.

[Greg]

Anora has six **** juror ratings which suggests that it is in fact the one to beat thus far.

Although, last year Fallen Leaves had the highest jury grid rating; and, Anatomy Of A Fall won the Palme d'Or.

[Big Magilla]

Anora has six **** juror ratings which suggests that it is in fact the one to beat thus far.

That said, what are these X ratings mean supposed to mean? I took them to mean that the jury member didn't see the film, but whoever applied the percentages counted them as a "no star" or "zero" rating. It seems to me that the totals for those films with X's should have been divided by the number of films seen by the ten or eleven of jurors who saw them, not the full complement of twelve.

[Sabin]

If I haven’t posted the Cannes grid, here it is: https://www.screendaily.com/cannes-jury-grid

[Mister Tee]

Greg wrote
You've been coming up with a new Palme d'Or frontrunner every day for the last few days.

Greg... don't deny me one of the few pleasures in life my boss can't take away from me.

It's the kind of Cannes it is: nothing storming to the front, so anything that gets excited reaction from anyone could be The One.

[Mister Tee]

And now, the new Paolo Sorrentino film, getting at least some very good reviews:

https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/p ... 236011840/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie ... 235903750/

https://deadline.com/2024/05/parthenope ... 235926030/

[Sabin]

Greg wrote
You've been coming up with a new Palme d'Or frontrunner every day for the last few days.

Greg... don't deny me one of the few pleasures in life my boss can't take away from me.

[Greg]

Going off of first reviews but I could definitely see the Gerwig jury going for Anora.

You've been coming up with a new Palme d'Or frontrunner every day for the last few days.

[flipp525]

The Shining should have been ignored, what Kubrick did to Stephen King's novel was a travesty.

Kubrick improved upon the source material and even King has finally come around to admitting that the film adaptation is great after lambasting it for decades and saying he had to turn it off when it appeared on his hotel television once. I re-read it a couple of years ago before I read Doctor Sleep (which is much scarier in some ways) and there are several elements that would simply not have worked in a 1980 adaptation such as the roaming topiary animals which Kubrick smartly turned into the infamous maze.

Wendy is a blonde cheerleader in the book.

[Sabin]

Going off of first reviews but I could definitely see the Gerwig jury going for Anora.


https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/a ... 236011025/
https://deadline.com/2024/05/anora-revi ... 235925716/
https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/mov ... 67f4510774
https://www.theguardian.com/film/articl ... SApp_Other