Triangle of Sadness wins Palme d’Or
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Miscellaneous
- Published
6th Jun, 2022
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Context
Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s class warfare comedy Triangle of Sadness won the Palme d’Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival.
About
- The film - Triangle of Sadness, an uproarious three-part comedy about fashion models, social-media influencers, class divides and projectile vomiting, is the second Palme win in five years for Swedish director Ostlund, who won for “The Square” in 2017.
- It is also the third consecutive win for U.S. distributor Neon, which took the top prize for “Titane” last year and “Parasite” in 2019.
- The runner-up prize, the Grand Prix, was a tie between young Belgian director Lukas Dhont’s “Close” and veteran French filmmaker Claire Denis’ “Stars at Noon.”
- The Jury Prize, which is essentially the third-place award, was a tie between two films.
- The jury was headed by French actor Vincent Lindon and also included Iranian director AsgharFarhadi, actress-directors Rebecca Hall and Jasmine Trinca, directors Ladj Ly, Jeff Nichols and Joachim Trier and actresses NoomiRapaceand DeepikaPadukone.
The list of winners:
- Palme d’Or: “Triangle of Sadness,” Ruben Ostlund
- Grand Prix: (TIE) “Close,” Lukas Dhont; and “Stars at Noon,” Claire Denis
- Jury Prize: (TIE) “The Eight Mountains,” Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch; and “Eo,” Jerzy Skolimowski
- Best Director: Park Chan-Wook, “Decision to Leave”
- Best Screenplay: “Boy From Heaven,” Tarik Saleh
- Best Actor: Song Kang Ho, “Broker”
- Best Actress: Zar Amir Ebrahimi, “Holy Spider”
- 75th anniversary special award: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, “Tori and Lokita”
- Camera d’Or (best first film): “War Pony,” Riley Keough and Gina Gammell
- Camera d’Or, special mention: “Plan 75,” Hayakawa Chie
- Palme d’Or, Short Film: “The Water Murmurs,” Jianying Chen
- Short film special mention: “Lori,” Abinash Bikram Shah
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About Cannes Film Festival:
- Cannes Film Festival was founded in 1946 and the invitation-only festival is held usually in May every year.
- Cannes is also one of the Big Three major European Film Festivals, alongside the Berlin International Film Festival in Germany and Venice Film Festival in Italy.
- Cannes 2022:
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- India has been chosen as ‘Country of Honour’ at Marche’ Du Film at the Cannes Film Festival 2022.
- As Cannes Film Festival will celebrate its 75th anniversary in 2022 with India being the country of honour, the festival will screen Satyajit Ray’s Pratidwandi in Cannes Classic Selection.
- The 1970 film has been restored under the National Film Heritage Mission which is a project undertaken by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting.
- Bollywood Star Deepika Padukone has been announced as part of the competition jury of the Cannes Film Festival 2022.