In a squeaker race for Cannes\u2019 top prize, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu prevailed on Saturday, taking the Palme d\u2019Or for his tense community drama \u201cFjord.\u201d<\/p>\n
The movie, a widely admired conversation-starter<\/a> at the festival, stars Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve as religious parents who come into conflict with the child protection services of their tiny Norwegian town where they have relocated with their family.<\/p>\n Mungiu, a previous winner of the Palme for his controversial 2007 abortion drama \u201c4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,\u201d<\/a> now joins an exclusive group of 10 filmmakers who have won the Palme twice \u2014 an achievement shared by Francis Ford Coppola (1974\u2019s \u201cThe Conversation\u201d and 1979\u2019s \u201cApocalypse Now\u201d) and Ruben \u00d6stlund (2017\u2019s \u201cThe Square\u201d and 2022\u2019s \u201cTriangle of Sadness\u201d), among others. No one has ever won a third Palme d\u2019Or.<\/p>\n Another record, maybe even more impressive, was set by distributor Neon, which, with \u201cFjord,\u201d extends its streak of Palme wins to an unprecedented seven in a row. Those previous six Neon winners, many of which eventually claimed Oscars, are \u201cParasite,\u201d<\/a> \u201cTitane,\u201d<\/a> \u201cTriangle of Sadness,\u201d<\/a> \u201cAnatomy of a Fall,\u201d<\/a> \u201cAnora\u201d<\/a> and last year\u2019s \u201cIt Was Just an Accident.\u201d <\/a> <\/p>\n Neon will release \u201cFjord\u201d in the fall, with an extensive awards campaign to follow.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s nine-member main competition jury, led by Korean director Park Chan-wook and studded with notables including \u201cThe Substance\u201d star Demi Moore<\/a>, Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd<\/a> and \u201cHamnet\u201d director Chlo\u00e9 Zhao<\/a>, seemed intent on spreading the wealth among as many winners as possible. There were three ties at Saturday\u2019s awards ceremony.<\/p>\n The award for actress was shared by Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto, co-stars of Ryusuke Hamaguchi\u2019s \u201cAll of a Sudden,\u201d a movie pegged by many to potentially go all the way. Similarly, the prize for actor was bestowed on both Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne, co-stars of Lukas Dhont\u2019s World War I romantic drama \u201cCoward.\u201d<\/p>\n The prize for directing went to three people \u2014 and two movies \u2014 with a joint win for Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi (better known as Los Javis) for their century-spanning queer historical drama \u201cThe Black Ball,\u201d as well as to director Pawe\u0142 Pawlikowski for his exquisite post-World War II psychodrama \u201cFatherland.\u201d (Pawlikowski half-joked at the podium, \u201cThis was a disastrous piece of mise-en-sc\u00e8ne\u201d after the awkward award presentation had him waiting in the wings.)<\/p>\n Claiming this year\u2019s Grand Prize (essentially second place) was \u201cMinotaur,\u201d the rapturously received comeback film of Andrey Zvyagintsev, a Russian director who had been sidelined with a near-fatal bout of long COVID that put him in a coma. His new movie, about a wealthy Moscow family, is both an erotic thriller and an indictment of amoral oligarchy detached from the war with Ukraine.<\/p>\n The festival\u2019s third-place Jury Prize went to the borderland German drama \u201cThe Dreamed Adventure,\u201d directed by Valeska Grisebach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a squeaker race for Cannes\u2019 top prize, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu prevailed on Saturday, taking the Palme…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[90913,133739,4288,136956,16538,1404,136954,48,52,51,7036,47,50,49,4287,136955,2001,136957,595,136959,136958],"class_list":["post-329973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-award-ceremony","tag-cannes","tag-co-star","tag-cristian-mungiu","tag-fall","tag-festival","tag-fjord","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-last-year","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-movie","tag-palme-dor","tag-prize","tag-sadness","tag-saturday","tag-star-demi-moore","tag-triangle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}