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South Korean director Bong Joon Ho Parasite A boldly original interpretation of the gap between rich and poor and its shocking repercussions in the city of Seoul, wins the Palme d'Or at the 72nd International Film Festival. Cannes film Saturday night, three of the four films of women directors from this year's competition were also awarded.
Bong Joon Ho is the second Asian director to be succeeded at the Palme d'Or after the Japanese Hirokazu Kore-Eda, who won the film last year Shoplifters
Bong Joon Ho received the prestigious first prize of the festival awarded by Catherine Deneuve, icon of French cinema, during a closing ceremony which also saw the Belgian brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, winning the award for best director for The Young Ahmed (Young Ahmed), the story of a boy radicalized by a local imam.
The jury chaired by the Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu awarded the Grand Prize, the second prize of the festival, to the first director, Mati Diop, Atlantic who proposes an individualistic approach to the struggles of life in the world. Senegal, Atlantic. The award was presented by Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone.
The Jury Prize was shared by two films – Les Miserables Franco-Malians Ladj Ly inspired by the riots of 2005 in a Parisian neighborhood and the Brazilian entry Bacurau directed by Kleber Mendonce Filho and Juliano Dornelles.
Palestinian director Elia Suleiman It Must Be Heaven received a special mention from the Inarritu jury. Portrait of a lady on fire directed by Céline Sciamma and one of the best films seen in Cannes this year, a premiere at the Cannes Competition, awarded her the Best Screenplay Award .
British actress Emily Beecham won Best Actress for her performance in the English film by Austrian director Jessica Hausner Little Joe .
Antonio Banderas was warmly applauded after being named best actor for the role of filmmaker in the self-reflection of Pedro Almodovar Pain and Glory . He received the trophy of Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi.
Our film from the film by Guatemalan director Cesar Diaz won this year's Best Cannes Film Award. The film was part of Parallel Critics Week.
The Un Certain Regard Award, announced Friday night, was awarded to The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Brazilian director-writer Karim Ainouz, a dramatic drama featuring two sisters divided in the years 1950, Rio de Janeiro.
The Un Certain Regard jury was directed by Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, winner of the jury prize last year for Capharnaum at the festival's main competition.
In his acceptance speech, Ainouz drew attention to the current turmoil in his country of origin. Brazil is going through a very difficult period linked to intolerance, he said. The jury prize in the box was awarded to Fire Will Come by French-born Spanish director Oliver Laxe, who offers a powerful and slow look at rural life faced with extinction in the Galician mountains.
The FIPRESCI jury of the festival chose the film Elia Suleiman It Must Be Heaven an absurd and particularly personal personality that gives him the status of a man without a country of his own, for his prize of international criticism for a film of the competition section. For Un Certain Regard, he awarded the prize to the new Russian sensation Kantemir Balagov Beanpole for "his extremely aesthetic use of the film medium and his unique history of post-war traumas".
FIPRESCI also awarded a prize to The Lighthouse directed by Robert Eggers. The film, which was presented at the Directors' Fortnight, was described as a "brutal work of art, all shot in superb black-and-white cinematography and fueled by a soundscape that resonates like a horn. mist".
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