By Associated Press
CANNES: Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s class warfare comedy “Triangle of Sadness” received the Palme d’Or on the seventy fifth Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, giving Ostlund one in all cinema’s most prestigious prizes for the second time.
Ostlund, whose art-world send-up “The Square” took the Palme in 2017, pulled off the uncommon feat of profitable Cannes’ high award for back-to-back movies. “Triangle of Sadness,” that includes Woody Harrelson as a Marxist yacht captain and a climactic scene with rampant vomiting, pushes the satire even additional.
“We wanted after the screening (for people) to go out together and have something to talk about,” stated Ostlund. “All of us agree that the unique thing with cinema is that we’re watching together. So we have to save something to talk about but we should also have fun and be entertained.”
The awards have been chosen by a nine-member jury headed by French actor Vincent Lindon and introduced Saturday in a closing ceremony inside Cannes’ Grand Lumière Theater.
The jury’s second prize, the Grand Prix, was shared between the Belgian director Lukas Dhont’s tender boyhood drama “Close,” about two 13-year-old boys whose bond is tragically separated after their intimacy is mocked by schoolmates; and French filmmaking legend Claire Denis’ “Stars at Noon,” a Denis Johnson adaptation starring Margaret Qualley as a journalist in Nicaragua.
The directing prize went to South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook (“Oldboy,” “The Handmaiden”) for his twisty noir “Decision to Leave,” a romance fused with a police procedural.
Korean star Song Kang Ho was named finest actor for his efficiency in Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s movie “Broker,” a few Korean household in search of a house for an deserted child.
“I’d like to thank all those who appreciate Korean cinema,” stated Song, who additionally starred in Bong Joon Ho’s Palme d’Or-winning movie “Parasite” in Cannes three years in the past.
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The finest actress went to Zar Amir Ebrahimi for her efficiency as a journalist in Ali Abbasi’s “Holy Spider,” a true-crime thriller a few serial killer focusing on intercourse employees within the Iranian spiritual metropolis of Mashhad. Violent and graphic, “Holy Spider” wasn’t permitted to shoot in Iran and as an alternative was made in Jordan. Accepting the award, Ebrahimi stated the movie depicts “everything that’s impossible to show in Iran.”
The jury prize was cut up between the friendship story “The Eight Mountains,” by Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix Van Groeningen, and Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski’s “EO,” a few donkey’s journey throughout a pitiless fashionable Europe.
“I would like to thank my donkeys,” stated Skolimowski, who proceeded to thank all six donkeys used within the movie by identify.
The jury additionally awarded a particular award for the seventy fifth Cannes to Belgian administrators Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, two-time Palme-winners and lengthy an everyday presence on the pageant, for his or her immigrant drama “Tori and Lokita.” Swedish-Egyptian filmmaker Tarik Saleh took finest screenplay at Cannes for “Boy From Heaven,” a thriller set in Cairo’s Al-Azhar Mosque.
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The award for finest first movie, the Camera d’Or, went to Riley Keough and Gina Gammell for “War Pony,” a drama in regards to the Pine Ridge Reservation made in collaboration with Oglala Lakota and Sicangu Lakota residents.
Saturday’s closing ceremony delivered to a detailed a Cannes that tried to totally resuscitate the annual France extravaganza that was canceled in 2020 by the pandemic and noticed modest crowds final yr. This yr’s pageant additionally unspooled towards the backdrop of the warfare in Ukraine, which sparked red-carpet protests and dialogue in regards to the objective of cinema in wartime.
Last yr, the French physique horror thriller “Titane” took the highest prize at Cannes, making director Julia Decournau solely the second feminine filmmaker ever to win the Palme. In 2019, Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” triumphed in Cannes earlier than doing the identical on the Academy Awards.
This yr, the largest Hollywood movies at Cannes — “Elvis,” ,“Top Gun: Maverick,”“Three Thousand Years of Longing” — performed exterior Cannes’ competitors lineup of 21 movies. But their presence helped restore a few of Cannes’ glamour after the pandemic scaled-down the pageant for the final two years.