The Square, Diane Kruger and Joaquin Phoenix take home prizes at this year’s Cannes Film Festival
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Cannes gives Golden Palm to ‘Winter Sleep’
Xavier Dolan takes bronze, and Julianne Moore wins best actress for Cronenberg’s ‘Maps to the Stars’
Blue is the Warmest Color deals perfectly with falling in love
Criticism of Kechiche’s ‘male gaze’ is overblown
A Thai ghost story wins the Palme d’Or
And Javier Bardem has to split Best Actor—but declares his love for Penelope Cruz
Huppert hands Haneke the Palme d’Or
The Cannes jury favours dark, challenging, transgressive fare
Weathering Cannes
It’s raining again in Cannes, and the films have been as unsettled as the sky. And as moist. Earlier I blogged about clogged drains and nasty plumbing, which have surfaced as a bizarre theme in the program. I cited drain-clearing scenes in Brazil’s Linha de Passe and, by Walter Salles, and Serbis, by Filipino director Brillante Mendoza. Since then we’ve seen another plumbing incident in Gomora, a mafia movie from Italy called by Matteo Garron. And my National Post colleague Chris Knight reminded me that the incarcerated characters in Blindness spend much of their time groping around floors slick with human waste. Chris, in fact, he penned a clogged sink blog called Plumbing the Depths of World Cinema. Wish I’d thought of that.