The 2006 Cannes film fest is over and winners and jury reactions have taken place. Here are the happening in a nutshell…
Cannes is the international capital of motion-picture arts. Each and every year, the Festival de Cannes becomes the key crossroads for the entire film industry. A total of over 30,000 cinema professionals, including distributors, producers, directors, actors, technicians and the media, and over 200,000 other people, meet in Cannes for 900 screenings at the Palais and numerous other cinema events.
THE JURY (for feature-length films):
Wong Kar-Wai (director) - PRESIDENT
Elia Suleiman (director)
Helena Bonham Carter, (actress)
Lucrecia Martel, (director)
Monica Belucci, (actress)
Patrice Leconte, (director)
Samuel L. Jackson, (actor)
Tim Roth, (actor)
Ziyi Zhang, (actress)FEATURE FILMS IN COMPETITION:
BABEL directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
CRÓNICA DE UNA FUGA directed by Israel Adrián Caetano
EL LABERINTO DEL FAUNO (PAN’S LABYRINTH) directed by Guillermo Del Toro
FAST FOOD NATION directed by Richard Linlater
FLANDRES (FLANDERS) directed by Bruno Dumont
IKLIMLER (CLIMATES) directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
IL CAIMANO (THE CAIMAN) directed by Nanni Moretti
INDIGÈNES directed by Rachid Bouchareb
JUVENTUDE EM MARCHA (COLOSSAL YOUTH) directed by Pedro Costa
LA RAISON DU PLUS FAIBLE (THE RIGHT OF THE WEAKEST) directed by Lucas Belvaux
LAITAKAUPUNGIN VALOT (LIGHTS IN THE DUSK) directed by Aki Kaurismaki
L’AMICO DI FAMIGLIA (THE FAMILY FRIEND) directed by Paolo Sorrentino
MARIE ANTOINETTE directed by Sofia Coppola
QUAND J’ÉTAIS CHANTEUR (THE SINGER) directed by Xavier Giannoli
RED ROAD directed by Andrea Arnold
SELON CHARLIE (CHARLIE SAYS) directed by Nicole Garcia
SOUTHLAND TALES directed by Richard Kelly
SUMMER PALACE directed by Lou Ye
THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY directed by Ken Loach*
VOLVER directed by Pedro Almodovar
WINNERS:
*Palme d’Or (best picture):
The Wind That Shakes The Barley by Ken Loach (Britain)
- previous winners include: Elephant, The Pianist, Fahrenheit 9/11, Dancer in the Dark, Pulp Fiction, L’Enfant, Barton Fink, Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver
Grand Prix:
Flandres (Flanders) by Bruno Dumont (France)
Prix du Scénario (best screenplay):
Pedro Almodovar for “Volver” (Spain)
Prix de la Mise en Scène (best director):
Alejandro González Iñárritu for “Babel” (Mexico)
Prix d’interprétation masculine (best actor):
The ensemble cast of Rachid Bouchareb’s “Indigènes” (Days of Glory): Jamel Debbouze, Samy Nacéri, Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem, Bernard Blancan (Algeria)
Prix d’interprétation féminine (best actress):
entire female cast of Pedro Almodovar’s “Volver”
Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave (Spain)
Prix du Jury (Jury Prize):
Red Road by Andrea Arnold (Britain)
Caméra d’Or (best first feature):
A Fost sau n-a fost? (12:08 East of Bucharest) by Corneliu Porumboiu (Romania)
QUOTE SNIPPETS FROM JURY MEMBERS:
Wong Kar-Wai:
“We thought there was going to be a long discussion, but in fact [best picture was] the first prize we decided today in one round of vote and it was unanimous.”
Helena Bonham Carter:
“Ken Loach’s film came very early on and that absolutely shattered and broke, so intense and viscerally moving. There’s no explaining it; it hit us all profoundly. It was one of five films about war. It was not only a fantastic education about the Irish problem, but it also was emotionally for me because I could understand something that I thought I could never understand. It led me to believe how somebody could kill his own brother. For me, it had tremendous humanity. I can’t explain our mass reaction; we were just all profoundly moved.”
Patrice Leconte:
“When I saw Ken Loach’s film the first day, it filled me with enormous emotion that has never left me.”
Tim Roth:
“I discovered from Ken’s movie on that I am a complete weeper. I just cried a lot in these movies. Normally, when I’m acting in films, they blow stuff in my eyes and I cry. These films really took me and took my heart.”