2015 Cannnes Award Winners Palme d’Or: Dheepan, Directed by Jacques Audiard Grand Prix: Son of Saul, Directed by Laszlo Nemes Best Director: The Assassin, Directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien Best Screenplay: Chronic, Written by Michel Franco Camera d’Or (Best First Feature): La Tierra y la Sombre, Directed by Cesar Acevedo Jury Prize: The Lobster, Directed by […]
Agnès Varda is to receive an honorary Palme d’or during the Closing Ceremony of the 68th Festival de Cannes. Previously, only Woody Allen, in 2002, Clint Eastwood, in 2009, and Bernardo Bertolucci, in 2011, have been granted this supreme distinction by the Board of Directors of the Festival de Cannes. The award is given to […]
by Dan Mirvish Feeling self-satisfied and/or congested from your annual Sundance winter camp? I’ve got news for you: Hollywood doesn’t care about another head-scratching indie with pigs in it, or an over-hyped VOD deal from a company you’ve never heard of for a film no one will ever see. Nope. Hollywood counts success in dollars, […]
by allan tong for FILMbutton This year’s Palme d’Or winner at Cannes is a gripping, powerful, but also meandering three-hour journey through a young woman’s lesbian relationship. Carrying the picture is Adèle Exarchopoulos as Adèle, a high schooler who falls for the slightly older, blue-haired painter, Emma (Léa Seydoux). They fall into a torrid relationship. […]
