Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto for Immediately by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi prize for greatest actress. Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne, interpretation prize for Coward by Lukas Dhont. Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, aka “Los Javis”, administrators of The Black Ball who share the directing prize with Pawel Pawlikowski for Fatherland. Double rewards and ties are the hallmark of winners of this 79th Cannes Film Festivalunveiled this Saturday night.
“Our telephones had been taken from us and we rapidly determined to get them again,” jokes President Park Chan-wook. So is that why they did not resolve to supply considerably awkward conditions throughout the ceremony with a single trophy for 2 or three folks?
« For those who had seen the movies with us, you’ll have finished the identical. It was inconceivable to resolve between filmmakers who had finished such good work. »
We really perceive his standpoint as a result of The black ball et Fatherland are very completely different however equally virtuoso. The primary evokes the gay relationships of three Spaniards in 1932, 1937 and 2017. The second evokes the return to the nation of the German author Thomas Mann after the Second World Battle. Each works are magnificent. “We are going to share custody of the trophy, one week every,” laughs Pawel Pawlikowski.
“These movies discuss loneliness, which touched us,” explains director Chloé Zhao. The relationships between these character duos made it inconceivable to not reward each performers. »
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Coward by Lukas Dhont tells the story of two troopers, one an introverted farmer, the opposite an organizer of evaluations supposed to provoke the troops. Immediately by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi embroiders across the assembly between a French nursing house director and a Japanese director affected by terminal most cancers. It’s certainly constant to have rewarded all 4 of them.
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This isn’t the primary time prizes have been shared. We expect particularly of Akira Kurosawa and Bob Fosse, each winners of the Palme d’or in 1980 for Kagemusha and All That Jazz or Abdellatif Kechiche who shared the Palme along with his actresses, Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos for The Lifetime of Adèle in 2013.
And to complete this Cannes Film Festival on a double, Cristian Mungiu. The Romanian director acquired the Palme d’Or for Fjord. That is the second time he has gained an award after 4 months, three weeks, two dayswinner in 2007.
