Cannes to wrap with presentation of Palme d’Or on Saturday

By Associated Press

CANNES: The seventy fifth Cannes Film Festival wraps Saturday with the presentation of the Palme d’Or and different awards chosen by the nine-member jury headed by French actor Vincent Lindon.

The closing ceremony brings to an in depth a Cannes that has tried to totally resuscitate the annual France extravaganza which was canceled in 2020 by the pandemic and noticed modest crowds final yr. This yr’s pageant additionally unspooled towards the backdrop of the battle in Ukraine, which sparked red-carpet protests and dialogue concerning the objective of cinema in wartime.

The closing ceremony begins at 2:30 p.m. EDT and concludes roughly an hour later. Outside of France, will probably be streamed dwell by Brut.

But what’s going to win? The Palme, one of many movie’s most prestigious awards, is famously unimaginable to handicap — by way of bookies nonetheless attempt their finest. It hinges solely on the deliberations of the jury which happen in non-public. Last yr, the French physique horror thriller “Titane” took the prize, making director Julia Decournau solely the second feminine filmmaker ever to win the Palme. In 2019, Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” triumphed in Cannes earlier than doing the identical on the Academy Awards.

This yr, the most important Hollywood movies at Cannes — “Elvis,”“Top Gun: Maverick,”“Three Thousand Years of Longing” — performed outdoors Cannes’ competitors lineup of 21 movies.

Arguably — and there may be at all times arguing at Cannes — among the many finest acquired movies that would win the Palme are Lukas Dhont’s Belgian coming-of-age drama “Close,” Park Chan-wook’s twisty Korean neo-noir “Decision to Leave,” Cristian Mungiu’s Romanian drama “R.M.N.,” Ruben Ostlund’s social satire “Triangle of Sadness” and James Gray’s semi-autobiographical ’80s New York story “Armageddon Time.”