Another year, another star-studded cohort of cinephiles – and, right on cue, our own roundup of winners and alternative ‘Braddies’
annes is nothing if not traditional, and this year returned to its newest, grimmest annual tradition: the statement of solidarity with the Ukrainian cause. A short film was shown about the outrage of kidnapping and “Russifying” Ukrainian children from captured territories.
As so often, the festival featured its big names, its silverback gorillas and its favoured blue-chip directors, although it annoyed many who couldn’t be included in the club itself: the main competition list. But it wasn’t such a great festival for the Depp family. Johnny was roundly mocked for his torpid, waxy portrayal of Louis XV in Maïwenn’s Jeanne Du Barry and his daughter, Lily-Rose Depp, got an awful panning for her TV series The Idol.
On the other hand, the much-imitated Wes Anderson is adored by Cannes and his new film Asteroid City played very well, and might even have widened the fanbase a little. Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan made a garrulous, ruminative, humane movie in About Dry Grasses. Aki Kaurismaki’s deadpan comedy Fallen Leaves was joyfully hugged by Cannes festivalgoers to their collective soul. Veteran Marco Bellocchio made a terrific drama about antisemitism in Kidnapped.
In summary though, the competition selection was very good, with some outstanding movies. All of Cannes is buzzing about Jonathan Glazer’s icily brilliant and very disturbing Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest, based on the novel by Martin Amis, who very sadly died before he could be aware of this triumph. Did Amis ever get a chance to see the finished film? Let’s hope so.
So here are my Cannes prize predictions, the films that I think will probably will win, together with a Cannes edition of my yearly “Braddies” – for Cannes prize categories that don’t exist, but should.
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