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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSpike Lee Accidentally Reveals Palme d'Or Winner Early: It's 'Titane'
Julia Ducournau becomes the second woman to win the top prize, after Jane Campion in 1993. The surprise reveal came at the start of a chaotic ceremony.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/movies/cannes-winners-titane-julia-ducournau.html
CANNES, France The 2021 edition of the Cannes Film Festival gave its top prize, the prestigious Palme dOr, to the French film Titane. A wild serial-killer story with some of the most controversial scenes of the festival, Titane was directed by Julia Ducournau, who became just the second woman to win the Palme, after Jane Campion took the prize in 1993 for The Piano. And though Titane had been hotly tipped as a prime contender for the Palme, that reveal came much earlier than intended: At the beginning of the closing ceremony, when the jury president, Spike Lee, was asked to announce the first prize of the night, he misunderstood and read off the first-prize winner instead. Dont do it! shouted the actress-director Mélanie Laurent, a jury member seated next to Lee. But the cat was already out of the bag.
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(At a news conference after the ceremony, Lee said that he had no excuses and that I messed up, adding, Im a big sports fan. Its like the guy at the end of the game in the foul line, he misses the free throw or a guy misses a kick. He also said he apologized to the Cannes organizers. They said forget about it.) The accidental Titane reveal was only the first of several chaotic moments at the ceremony, as the spoiled Palme reveal was followed by a best-actor prize for Caleb Landry Jones for the Australian tragedy Nitram. When a nervous-looking Jones took the stage, he appeared sick to his stomach, said, I cannot do this, and beat a hasty retreat. Still, by the time a teary Ducournau was brought out at the end of the ceremony to finally accept her Palme, she had embraced the chaos. This evening has been perfect, she said, because its so not perfect.
Other major winners included Leos Carax, who took the best-director prize for his eccentric musical Annette, best-actress winner Renate Reinsve for the Norwegian romantic dramedy The Worst Person in the World, and a pair of ties: The second-place prize was split between A Hero, from the Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, and the Finnish drama Compartment No. 6, while the third-prize tie went to the Nadav Lapid film Aheds Knee and Memoria, starring Tilda Swinton.
At the last Cannes film festival, held in 2019, the Palme winner was Parasite, the first major prize Bong Joon Hos film took on its path to the best-picture Oscar. Though Titane is far too gory to become a major Oscar contender, its Palme win firmly establishes Ducournau as a major international director only two feature films into her career.
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Spike Lee Accidentally Reveals Palme d'Or Winner Early: It's 'Titane' (Original Post)
Celerity
Jul 2021
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underpants
(182,803 posts)1. He didn't do the right thing
Celerity
(43,358 posts)3. he just so boosted its exposure due to all the news stories about the massive cock-up
Julia Ducournau should DEFFO buy him a magnum of Dom Perignon P3 Plenitude Brut
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)2. It looks like Spike Lee didn't have a clue
I don't understand French either, so I would have done the same thing.
Yavin4
(35,438 posts)4. Looks like a good movie.
It's all for the best.
Celerity
(43,358 posts)5. deffo one to take the kids to!!
Titane Review: Julia Ducournau Follows Raw with One of the Wildest Films to Ever Screen at Cannes
Cannes: Almost certainly the sweetest movie ever made about a serial killer who has sex with a car.
https://www.indiewire.com/2021/07/titane-review-julia-ducournau-1234650972/