Marques outside shooting with Galaxy S21 5G. Thao Huynh's selfies show the difference between the camera's Bright Mode and Natural Mode. He shoots a video in Director's Mode, simultaneously recording footage of the hallway and himself walking. Marques goes into the phone's Camera app and shows the many shooting modes available. Krystal Lora is holding Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G in Phantom Black. In the Uncertain Regard category (for which “ Masaan” collected the ‘ Most Promising Future’ Award for its director, Neeraj Ghaywan).Marques Brownlee, aka MKBHD, is holding Galaxy S21 5G in Phantom Violet. This year the main feature film competition jury was: presidents Joel and Ethan Cohen, Rossy de Palma, Guillermo Del Torro, Xaiver Dolan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sophie Marceau, Sienna Miller, and Rokia Traoré. The others winners from the main competition were Cesar Augusto Acevedo, a Columbian who collected the Camera D’Or for “ Land and Shade” the Palme d’Honneur going to Agnes Varda the ecumenical prize to the charming, reflective Nanni Moretti, “ Mia Madre (‘My Mother)”, with the short films palme d’Or going to “ Waves 98” by Ely Dagher. Mexican Michel Franco won the screenplay award for his film “ Chronic”, which stars Brit Tim Roth as a Los Angeles carer haunted by his charges. Yorgos Lanthimos’ “ The Lobster” collected the Jury prize, for his apocalyptic tale of a near-future where people are forced to find a mate in 45 days or face being turned into an animal and let off into the wild.
The Grand Prix award (a sort of runners-up consolation) was given to “ Son of Saul”, a Holocaust drama by Hungarian, Laszlo Nemes.īest director prize was collected by Hou Hsiao-hsien for “ The Assassin”, a film from Taiwan. The best actor award went to the French Vincent Lindon for his role in La Loi Du Marché (‘The Measure of a Man’) by director Stéphane Brizé. Her latest film as a director, “La Tête Haute” (‘Standing Tall’) opened the festival but out of competition. Haynes’ “ Carol” was among the winners in the actress category, with Mara picking up the award for her role in the film, but had to share it with French star, Emmanuel Bercot for her part in the French relationship drama, “ Moi Roi”. These people come from somewhere,” he said, shortly after receiving the award.
“What interests me is the other person’s perspective, and how we view the people that sell roses in restaurants. They described “ Dheepan” as a “beautiful movie”.Īudiard ( pictured below), who is something of a veteran at Cannes, having had six films in competition before and notable success with “ A Prophet” (A Grand Prix winner) in 2009 and “ Rust and Bone” in 2012, said he had been inspired to make a story about people who were often forgotten about or just ignored. Much of the hot money seemed to flowing the way of Todd Haynes’ 1950s US lesbian drama, “ Carol”, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.Īt a press conference after the awards, jury co-presidents Joel and Ethan Cohen told journalists they were looking as artists at other filmmakers’ works and that was different from the way critics might have viewed the films.
“ Dheepan” received respectable reviews when it premiered in Cannes late last week but it was hardly a favourite for the most coveted prize. ‘Dheepan’ himself is played by Jesuthasan Anthonythasan (above), making his film debut alongside fellow debutants, Kalieaswari Srinavasan as ‘Yalini’ ( above left), and a small girl, Claudine Vinsthasamby as ‘Illayaal’.ĭheepan does not really know Yalini or the little girl, but reckons his chances of successfully claiming asylum in France are substantially bolstered by having the pair with him and claiming refugee status as a family. The film tells the story of a Tamil soldier who flees his native Sri Lanka and heads for France at the tail end of the 20-year civil war between the Tamil minority and the Sinhala majority. Jury presidents defend choice, as press largely underwhelmedĪ FILM mostly in Tamil has scooped the top prize in Cannes.įrench director Jacques Audiard’s “ Dheepan” was presented the Palme d’Or at last night’s closing ceremony, bringing the curtain down on the 68th edition of the Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24).Director says film shines light on lives regarded as marginal or not important.French film about Sri Lankan refugees wins Palme d’or.
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