(25 May 2024)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cannes – 25 May 2024
1. Wide of red carpet
2. Various of Koji Yakusho
3. Various of Melanie Laurent
4. Various of Wim Wenders
5. Various of Elle Fanning
6. Various of Andie MacDowell
7. Various of Viola Davis
8. Various of Jaimie King
9. Various of Vicky Krieps
10. Various George Lucas
11. Medium President of the Jury Un Certain Regard Xavier Dolan
12. Wide zoom in Karla Sofía Gascón and Jacques Audiard
13. Medium Ikram Abdi
14. Wide of Member’s of the Jury Caméra d’Or Zoe Wittock, Pascal Buron, Emmanuelle Béart, Baloji, Nathalie Chifflet and Gilles Porte
15. Various of Amineh Arani, Setareh Maleki, Mohammad Rasoulof, Mahsa Rostami and Niousha Akhshi
16. Various Coralie Fargeat and Demi Moore
17. Varous Felicity the dog
18. Various of Jury Members Juan Antonio Bayona, Eva Green, Nadine Labaki, Hirokazu Kore-eda, President of the Jury Greta Gerwig, Omar Sy, Ebru Ceylan, Pierfrancesco Favino and Lily Gladstone
STORYLINE:
Sean Baker’s “Anora,” a comic but devastating Brooklyn odyssey about a sex worker who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, has won the Cannes Film Festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or.
While “Anora” was arguably the most acclaimed film of the festival, its win was a slight surprise. Many expected either the gentle Indian drama “All We Imagine As Light” or the Iranian film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” to win. Both of those films also took home prizes.
It wasn’t the only jolt of the closing ceremony, though. Before George Lucas was given an honorary Palme d’Or, his old friend and sometimes collaborator Francis Ford Coppol a appeared to present it to him, reuniting two of the most pivotal figures of the last half-century of American moviemaking.
“All We Imagine As Light,” about sisterhood in modern Mumbai, won the Grand Prix, Cannes’ second-highest honor. Payal Kapadia’s second feature was the first Indian in competition in Cannes in 30 years.
The jury awarded a special prize to Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” a drama made secretly in Iran. Days ahead of the film’s premiere, Rasoulof, facing an eight-year prison sentence, fled Iran on foot. His film, which includes real footage from the 2022-2023 demonstrations in Iran, channels Iranian oppression into a family drama. The Cannes crowd met an emotional Rasoulof with a lengthy standing ovation.
Coralie Fargeat’s body horror film “The Substance,” starring Demi Moore as a Hollywood actress who goes to gory extremes to remain youthful, won for best screenplay.
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