The movie Anora, by one of the true independent directors of today’s cinema, Sean Baker, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Festival this Saturday. When the film was screened at the festival, it already managed to win over critics thanks to its infectious grace, its inevitable sadness and its formidable characters. Anora is the name of the protagonist, a smart and foul-mouthed prostitute from Astoria (Queens) who prefers to respond to the sexiest alias of Ani. The young woman, played by Mikey Madison, one day meets the son of a Russian oligarch, willing to throw her house out the window with her, and that’s where her adventure begins. Baker thus returned to the heights he had conquered with his jewel The Florida Project (2017) to tell one of those stories about street princesses and trash.
However, the most exciting moment of the gala was when Francis Ford Coppola, who presented the criticized Megalopolishe presented the Palme d’Or of Honor to his friend George Lucas, the creator of the universe of Star Wars and so many hours of fun for millions of viewers around the world.
Another award ceremony full of feeling was starred by the Spanish Karla Sofía Gascón, awarded along with the Dominican Zoe Saldaña, the American Selena Gómez and the Mexican Adriana Paz for the best female performance. The festival thus wanted to recognize the group of actresses in the film Emilia Perez, by Frenchman Jacques Audiard, who also won the Jury Prize. In her very emotional speech, Gascón, who plays the leader of a Mexican drug trafficking cartel that transition to become a woman, she began her speech with a “Holy shit!” She wanted to dedicate the award “to all trans people who are suffering hate.” “This news will be full of comments tomorrow from people saying terrible things. Well, we all have the opportunity to change, so – addressing those who insult like this – let’s see if you change, bastards!
The best direction went to the Portuguese Miguel Gomes for Grand Tour. The seed of the sacred fig, by the Iranian Mohammad Rasoulof, exiled from his country to escape a prison sentence and whippings, received the Special Jury Prize. While American Jesse Plemons won the award for best actor for his work in Kind of Kindnessby Yorgos Lanthimos.
The Norwegian director Halfdan UllmannTndel, grandson of the legendary director Ingmar Bergman and the actress, screenwriter and filmmaker Liv Ullmann, won the Camera d’Or, which each year awards the best new director at the French competition. The Frenchwoman Coralie Fargeat won the award for best screenplay for The Substancea film that he also directs and that stars Demi Moore.
Finally, the Indian All we imagine as light, by director Payal Kapadia, won the Grand Jury Prize for a film about sisterhood between women, which was also the first film from her country in three decades to participate in competition at the contest.
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