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CANNES 2018 •
Awards The Palme d'Or goes
to Shoplifters
by Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa 19/05/2018
CANNES 2018: The winners of the prizes of the 71st edition
of the gathering are being unveiled at the closing
ceremony
Hirokazu
Kore-eda’s film has scooped the top prize, while other names on the
winners’ list include Europeans Alice Rohrwacher,
Marcello Fonte, Pawel Pawlikowski and
Jean-Luc Godard.
In the end, it was a blend of
emotion and finesse that won over the jury chaired by Cate Blanchett, as the Palme d'Or at the 71st Cannes Film
Festival was handed to the understated Shoplifters by Japan’s Hirokazu
Koreeda.
Hirokazu Koreeda with his Palme
d'Or, standing in front of jury chair Cate
Blanchett
The filmmaker, who was taking part in
the competition for the fifth time, had been awarded on two separate occasions
(the Jury Prize in 2013 and via a Best Actor Award in 2004), and with this win,
he brings a fifth Palme d’Or back to his home country. The international sales
of his movie are handled by French-German sales agent Wild Bunch.
European cinema had a heavy
presence on the winners’ list at the 2018 edition of the gathering.
 Photograph: Stephane Cardinale -
Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images
Intriguingly, a Special
Palme d’Or popped up on the awards list for the very first time, singling out
the incredible The Image Book by
Switzerland’s Jean-Luc
Godard (now 87 years of age), which was produced by Switzerland’s
Casa Azul Films and France’s Ecran Noir Productions; its international sales are
also overseen by Wild Bunch.
The Best Director Award was quite rightly bestowed upon Poland’s Pawel Pawlikowski for Cold
War, a movie staged by Poland (Opus Film), the UK (Apocalypso
Pictures) and France (mk2, which also manages the international sales).
Meanwhile, Italian cinema was rewarded twofold. The Best Actor
Award served to highlight the magnificent work of the Buster
Keaton-like Marcello Fonte in Matteo
Garrone’s Dogman, a
film produced by Archimede together with France’s Le Pacte, and sold by
Rai.
The Best Screenplay Award was split between two
titles – Alice Rohrwacher did
European cinema proud, as she won said trophy for Happy as Lazzaro. Having previously won the Grand
Prix in 2014 (with The Wonders), the 36-year-old filmmaker thus continues her
rise to the top, as this is only her third feature film. Produced by Tempesta
together with Rai Cinema, Switzerland’s Amka Films Productions, France’s Ad
Vitam and Germany’s Pola Pandora Filmproduktion, the movie is being sold abroad
by The Match Factory.
European film production was also singled out via the Best Actress Award,
which crowned Kazakhstan’s Samal
Yeslyamova for her very physical performance in Ayka by her fellow countryman Sergey Dvortsevoy, which was produced by Russia,
Germany (Pallas Film), Poland (Otter Film), France (KNM), Kazakhstan and
China.
Also of note is the Jury Prize picked up by
Capharnaüm by Lebanon’s Nadine
Labaki, a feature staged by Lebanon, with France’s
Anne-Dominique Toussaint (Les Films des Tournelles) on board as
associate producer. Wild Bunch is
taking care of its international sales.
This award ceremony thus drops
the curtain on a 2018 competition that proved to be of an extremely high quality
(with a programme that cleverly built up to a crescendo), and which was at odds
with the predictions of the doomsayers alarmed by the absence of a clutch of
Croisette regulars. The gamble that Thierry
Frémaux took on new blood clearly paid off, as we saw the
emergence of some very different filmmakers and styles, and a new world order in
arthouse cinema, with Europe remaining a solid player, Asia gaining momentum and
the breakthrough of the Middle East (in particular with the ex-aequo Best
Screenplay Award for Iran’s Jafar
Panahi for Three
Faces), plus an excellent performance by North
America, with the prestigious Grand Prix picked up by the USA’s
Spike Lee for BlacKkKlansman.
In the meantime, the future
seems to be embodied by Belgian director Lukas Dhont, who went home with the Caméra
d'Or (which singles out the best debut feature across all of the
sections) for Girl
(presented in Un Certain Regard), a film that has already been
honoured with a FIPRESCI Prize and the Best Performance
Award on the winners’ list of Un Certain Regard. Produced by Belgian
outfit Menuet, and co-produced by Frakas Productions and the
Netherlands’ Topkapi, Girl
is being sold overseas by The Match
Factory.
Here is
the complete list of winners:
Palme d'Or Shoplifters - Hirokazu
Koreeda
Special Palme d'Or The Image
Book - Jean-Luc
Godard
Grand Prix BlacKkKlansman - Spike
Lee
Best Director Pawel
Pawlikowski - Cold
War
Best Actress Samal
Yeslyamova - Ayka
Best Actor Marcello
Fonte - Dogman
Best Screenplay (ex-aequo) Alice Rohrwacher - Happy as Lazzaro Nader Saeivar, Jafar
Panahi - Three
Faces
Jury Prize Capharnaüm - Nadine
Labaki
Caméra d'Or Girl
- Lukas Dhont
Palme d'Or for Best Short Film All These Creatures - Charles Williams
Special
Mention On the Border -
Wei Shujun
Delicious
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