U.S. director Spike Lee, the chairman of the jury, announced this by mistake too early during the festival’s closing on Saturday night.
J.Ducournau is the second woman to win the “Golden Palm Branch in the 74-year history of the festival. The award goes to her for one of the craziest, sexiest and most brutal films ever shown in Cannes.
“This is the first film in which Cadillac has fertilized a woman. It just shocked me! – said. S.Lee. “It’s both genius and madness.”
Titan tells the story of a woman who has sex with cars and carelessly kills. The film is full of scenes of violence that forced many viewers to turn a blind eye during the premiere.
Only at the start of the ceremony, instead of presenting the first evening award to best actor, Lee, the first black man to lead the Cannes jury, announced the winner of the Golden Palm Branch.
There was an awkward silence for a moment, but the award for best actor soon went to American Caleb Landry Jones for the role of 35-person murderer Martin Bryant in Nitram.
Justin Kurzel, director of the film about the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, has received much fierce criticism in Australia.
However, during its premiere in Cannes, the film tilted critics to its side. Variety magazine called it a “shocking investigation of cruelty” showing “silent respect for the dignity of the victims.”
The hitherto unknown Norwegian actress Renate Reinsve, who won the Best Actress Award for her role in the film Worst Person in the World, shone on Saturday night.
The 33-year-old Norwegian’s role as a girl in her thirties who was looking for her identity caused a sensation.
The actress was completely unprepared for that. “No one saw me anywhere,” she told AFP after the premiere. – I woke up that day and got dressed. And today I woke up and cried. “
“Let in monsters”
When it was finally time to actually announce the winner of the Golden Palm Branch, Lee apologized for “getting confused.”
But he almost ruined the delivery again as he started announcing the winner instead of Sharon Stone, who was supposed to deliver it. At that time, J. Ducournau giggled in the hall.
However, when the winner was officially announced, the director burst into tears. “This evening is perfect because it is imperfect,” she told the audience. “Thank you for letting in monsters.”
J.Ducournau is the second woman to win the Golden Palm Branch. Director Jane Campion was the first to win this award in 1993 for The Piano.
Among the winners of this year’s Cannes Film Festival is Leos Carax, who won the Best Director Award for his impressive rock opera “Annette”. Starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, the script was written by the eccentric Los Angeles pop duo Sparks.
The second most important Grand Prize was shared by two films: Iranian, two-time Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi’s film “Hero” and Finnish Juho Kuosmanen’s “Coupe no. 6 “(Compartment No. 6).
The award for best screenplay went to the Japanese Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasai Oe for the film Drive My Car.
There were no clear favorites to triumph at this year’s Cannes Awards. Critics have named a number of potential winners of the Golden Palm Branch.
Last year, the Cannes Film Festival did not take place due to a pandemic, and in 2019, the main prize went to the South Korean black humor comedy Parasite, which later won an Oscar for Best Picture of the Year.
There was a lot of sex on the festival’s program this year, from lesbian monks in Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta to a porn star returning to his hometown in Texas in the critically acclaimed Red Rocket.
Saliva tests
At the beginning of the festival, there were doubts about compliance with COVID-19 security measures. Some spectators at the festival were outraged by the requirement to take a saliva test every 48 hours, and there was no shortage of criticism on social media that protective masks were not worn in cinemas during the first premieres.
Restrictions were tightened, parties were restricted, and while the stars could not completely abstain from hugs and kisses on the red carpet, the festival seems to have passed without a major outbreak of infection.
There was no shortage of stars, however.
Tilda Swinton, who has appeared in five officially selected films, has repeatedly climbed the red carpet.
The Scottish actress played a leading role in Memoria, the previous year’s Golden Palm Branch winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul of Thailand, who shared this year’s third Jury Prize with Israeli director Nadav Lapid’s Ahed’s Knee.
However, Swinton made no secret of the fact that he was most proud of receiving the “Palm Soup Part” award for the three spaniels who appeared with him in The Souvenir Part 2.
“Honestly, this is a prize to be won,” she said at a dog awards ceremony on Friday, tying a red collar around her neck.
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