his Bergman-inspired satire on marital tension in Force Majure, Ruben Östlund‘s follow up The Square wins top honours at Cannes Film Festival, Palme d’Or.
Moving from the French Alps to a satirical look at the Artworld about a museum director desperate for the gallery to succeed by staging a new installation called ‘The Square‘. Elizabeth Moss stars as a TV Journalist and Domonic West as a renowned artist.
In the 70th year for the prestigious film festival, this year winners went against the grain despite been one of the most talked movies of the festival. Michael Haneke, Yorgos Lanthimos and Lynne Ramsay all had their movies playing which meant the winners had to be something truly special if they were to win.
Other prizes went to Lynne Ramsay‘s You Were Never Really There winning Best Screenplay jointly won with Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou for The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Joaquin Phoenix wins the best actor award for Ramsay’s movie too.
One movie we cannot wait for is Sofia Coppola‘s The Beguiled, winning The Best Director award with one of the movie’s stars, Nicole Kidman winning the 70th anniversary award. Sofia Coppola becomes the only second female director to win this award (the first being Yuliya Solntseva in 1961).
Miss Sloane actress Jessica Chastain found it ‘disturbing’ at how the way women were depicted on screen, calling for more female storytellers that would give their point of view rather than react to the men around them. Toni Erdmann director Maren Ade, agreed with the actress, adding: “We’re missing a lot of stories they might tell.”
Competition winners
Palme d’Or
Ruben Östlund, The Square
Grand Prix
Robin Campillo’s 120 Beats Per Minute
Jury Prize
Andrey Zvyagintsev, Loveless
Camera d’Or
Léonor Sérraille, Montparnasse Bienvenue
Best Director
Sofia Coppola, The Beguiled
Best Screenplay
tie: Lynne Ramsay, You Were Never Really Here and Yorgos Lanthimos, The Killing of Sacred Deer
Best actress
Diane Kruger, In the Fade
Best actor
Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here
Short film
Qiu Yang, A Gentle Night
70th Anniversary Jury Prize
Nicole Kidman