Re: Cannes reviews
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2021 3:44 pm
I haven't thought about the Awards Daily crowd in a bit. Is that still how they are?
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I suspect there will be much anger from the same groups when France inevitably does not select this as their International Film submission--just from the Cannes competition lineup, I would suspect that the Ozon and Audiard films both have a leg up on it as more conventional, mainstream films, and this doesn't even take into account French films that will appear at Venice, etc.Mister Tee wrote:As usual, folks at Awards Worthy are over the moon for victories by movies they haven't seen (and for all they know they'd hate if they did).
Titane was popular with them because 1) female director and 2) "genre" (which is apparently today's euphemism for horror). The film will obviously get its day in the sun, especially with Neon distributing, but I will always be skeptical about such a film making its way to anything like the Oscars (remembering how Hereditary and Us turned out). I still haven't watched Raw, but maybe now I need to give it a look.
He also missed a perfectly good opportunity to to give the top prize to Do the Right Thing.Mister Tee wrote
Actually (I watched on streaming), he was asked to announce what the first award was (which should have been Best Actor), but he seemed to interpret the question as "What's the top award?", and he blurted out most of it before the others could shut him up. Really an amateur night performance -- has he never watched an awards show before?
Actually (I watched on streaming), he was asked to announce what the first award was (which should have been Best Actor), but he seemed to interpret the question as "What's the top award?", and he blurted out most of it before the others could shut him up. Really an amateur night performance -- has he never watched an wards show before?Sabin wrote: Okay, so Spike Lee apparently mentioned that TITANE won the Palme d'Or at the start of the ceremony. He came out with the list of winners and started at the top or something.
They're not a fan of Red Rocket?Mister Tee wrote
For those who love buzz -- based on "inside knowledge" and observation of people arriving at the ceremony -- these are the films alleged to figure in this year's prizes:
TITANE (Julia Ducournau)
MEMORIA (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
DRIVE MY CAR (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
A HERO (Asghar Farhadi)
AHED’S KNEE (Nadav Lapid)
NITRAM (Justin Kurzel)
THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (Joachim Trier)
COMPARTMENT NO.6 (Juho Kuosmanen)
ANNETTE (Leos Carax)
This looks like a potential winner to me.Mister Tee wrote
I kind of have this idea Sean Baker is going to be one of those directors who's constantly touted by critics, but, because of his subject matter/propensity for casting amateurs, never truly has a breakthrough to the mainstream. As far as festivals, however -- his films are always going to be in the running, and this is no exception.