The Cannes Film Festival handed out its awards today, wrapping up the annual festival with the usual distribution of mantle-destined metal. That included sending the fabled Palme d\u2019Or home with Christian Mungiu\u2019s\u00a0Fjord, which stars Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve as a married couple who become embroiled in a massive scandal after moving to a small Norwegian village. The film is, among other things, Romanian director Mungiu\u2019s second Palme win; he previously took home The Big Fancy Leaf back in 2007, for his film 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the competition, the second-place Grand Prize went to Andre\u00ef Zviaguintsev\u2019s\u00a0Minotaur, a thriller about a small-town businessman (Dmitriy Mazurov) who discovers his wife is having an affair. Other categories, meanwhile, showed the Cannes jury in a slightly indecisive mood: Best Director, for instance, was a tie, going to both Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi for their film\u00a0La Bola Negro, as well as Pawe\u0142 Pawlikowski for his Thomas Mann biopic Fatherland. (In an interview<\/a>, Jury President Park Chan-wook was bluntly straightforward about the reasons for the splits: \u201cWe couldn\u2019t decide whether one was better than the other.\u201d In that sense, we guess we should be grateful that Park and his jury were more decisive on the Palme, maintaining their Fjord focus.)<\/p>\n That split mindset also extended to both acting categories, where the Jury picked two performances each from two films: Virginie Efira and Tao Okamo both winning Best Actress for Japanese drama All Of A Sudden, while Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagneshare shared Best Actor for Lukas Dhont\u2019s World War I drama\u00a0Coward. (Jury member Chlo\u00e9 Zhao offered\u00a0slightly\u00a0more explanation than Park for the splits, noting that, \u201cWe fell in love, not just with the actors, but the relationships of love and tenderness between them, we fell in love with awarding both of them.\u201d)<\/p>\n Slightly more decisively, the jury handed out its Best Screenplay award to Emmanuelle Marre for French World War II drama A Man Of His Time, the Jury Prize (functionally third place) to Valeska Grisebach\u2019s\u00a0The Dreamed Adventure, and gave the Camera d\u2019Or (awarded to the best first film at the competition) to director Marie Cl\u00e9mentine Dusabejambo\u2019s Rwanda-set drama\u00a0Ben\u2019Imana. The jury also awarded the prize for best short film competing at the festival to Federico Luis, for his boxing-focused short film For The Opponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cannes Film Festival handed out its awards today, wrapping up the annual festival with the usual distribution…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-689596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}