![]() Her bewilderment throughout disorienting compulsory mass hazing rituals (including a group version of the crucial pig’s blood scene from “Carrie”) is palpable: At this point audiences will fear for her safety. Doe-eyed, chin up, and a natural valedictorian type, she’s ready to throw herself into her studies. Marillier initially does a superb job of projecting the ingenue. ![]() This location is key to what follows: Like the dance academy in Dario Argento’s “Suspiria” (or the school in 2014’s Critics’ Week triumph “The Tribe”), the college appears to be a placeless, hermetically sealed environment permeated with heightened emotion a kind of twisted dream-logic dominates and permits events to get suitably out of hand. The vast majority of the action takes place over Justine’s first week at the veterinary college that is her parents’ alma mater, and also where her older sister Alexia (Ella Rumpf) is already studying. It’s not really a spoiler to reveal that her imminent ascent up the food chain will involve more adventurous hors d’oeuvres. Her parents are even more outraged, determined to preserve her herbivorous purity. Strict vegetarian Justine (Garance Marillier) orders plain mashed potato in a canteen, but when she chows down, she’s disconcerted to find a chunk of sausage in her mash. The central narrative in “Raw” opens with an amuse-bouche of a scene, functioning as something of a tease for the banquet to come. Genre-led distribs will be slavering for a taste, while crossover to a slightly more mainstream crowd may be possible, provided they have strong stomachs. Premiering in Cannes Critics’ Week - where jurors will have had to sit up and take note, if not reach for the barf bag, “Raw” is a deliciously fevered stew of nightmare fuel that hangs together with a breezily confident sense of superior craft. Lastly, the best screenplay award went to Japan’s Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe for Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car, based on a 2014 Haruki Murakami short story.Hannibal Lecter may have selected appropriate wine matches for his meat, but the cannibalism on display in French freshman writer-director Julia Ducournau’s succulent “ Raw” is more opportunistic - the equivalent, say, of being able to handily throw together a meal from whoever is lying around. (After the year we’ve had, this feels relatable.) Jones was apparently so nervous upon receiving the award he mumbled, “I cannot do this,” and left the stage. Best actor went to Caleb Landry Jones for Justin Kurzel’s Australian thriller Nitram, making him the first X-Man to be so honored. The Jury Prize, the bronze medal of sorts, was also a tie between Israel’s Nadav Lapid for Ahed’s Knee and Thailand’s Weerasethakul for the Tilda Swinton-led Memoria.īest director went to Leos Carax for the musical Annette, written by Ron and Russell Mael of the band Sparks and starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard.īest actress was awarded to Norwegian actress Renate Reinsve for her work in Joachim Trier’s dark romantic comedy The Worst Person in the World. The Grand Prix, ostensibly second place, was a tie (not unheard of) awarded to Iran’s Asghar Farhadi for A Hero and Finland’s Juho Kuosmanen for Compartment No. ![]() Titane marks the first time a horror picture has won the prize, though one could make the case for Shōhei Imamura’s 1983 film The Ballad of Narayama. When prompted to read the “first prize” champion, he misinterpreted his cue. Jury president Spike Lee goofed up during the ceremony and announced the big winner first. (One can hardly imagine Brigitte Bardot or Marcello Mastroianni spitting into a cup before a premiere.) The festival, usually held in May, was canceled entirely in 2020 due to the pandemic, the first such cancellation since World War II. The audience who came to the Grand Auditorium Louis Lumière to applaud the 2021 Cannes Film Festival winners also braved protocols to stop the spread of the coronavirus during the busy 12-day event. (Cannes is allowed to make up rules on the fly like that, and that’s why Cannes is the greatest.) ![]() ![]() Actors Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux were also co-awarded the Palme with their director Abdellatif Kechiche for the film Blue Is the Warmest Color in 2013. The Paris-born Ducournau is the second woman director to win the festival’s top prize, following Jane Campion in 1993 for The Piano. As with her debut, Raw, her latest film is classified as a “body-horror” movie in which a victim of a vehicular accident has a sexual relationship with an automobile. Julia Ducournau won the prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, a remarkable achievement considering it is only her second feature. ![]()
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