\u201cFjord\u201d, a thought-provoking drama about domestic violence and left-wing prejudices by Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu, won the best film prize at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday at a star-packed closing ceremony.<\/p>\n
In his second Palme d\u2019Or-winning film, Mungiu explored the contradictions of Scandinavia\u2019s supposed tolerance in a drama featuring Norwegian star Renate Reinsve (\u201cSentimental Value\u201d) and Sebastian Stan (\u201cThe Apprentice\u201d).<\/p>\n
It follows a devoutly Christian Norwegian-Romanian couple and their five children who move to a remote village.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a message about tolerance, inclusion and empathy. These are wonderful values that we all cherish, but we need to put them into practice more often,\u201d Mungiu told the audience.<\/p>\n
The movie is based on true events and is notable for how it questions the supposedly progressive values of Norwegian society, as well as religious bias in the country\u2019s child welfare system.<\/p>\n
Russian drama \u201cMinotaur\u201d by Andrey Zvyagintsev, which depicts a callous businessman caught up in Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, won the Grand Prix second prize.<\/p>\n
Zvyagintsev\u2019s films offer bleak portraits of modern Russia under Vladimir Putin, whose forces invaded Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n
\u201cPut an end to the carnage, the whole world is waiting for it,\u201d Zvyagintsev, who now lives in exile in France, told the audience in a message addressed to Putin.<\/p>\n
The director nearly died during the Covid 19 pandemic, spending more than a month in a coma during treatment in Europe.<\/p>\n
Double winners\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Among the other prizes, Belgium\u2019s Virginie Efira and Japanese actor Tao Okamoto shared the best female performance award for their roles in the nursing home drama \u201cAll of a Sudden\u201d by Japan\u2019s Ryusuke Hamaguchi.<\/p>\n Belgian duo Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne from gay World War I drama \u201cCoward\u201d also shared the male best actor award for their roles in the Lukas Dhont-directed movie.<\/p>\n Rwandan filmmaker Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo won the Camera d\u2019Or for best first film for her genocide drama \u201cBen\u2019Imana\u201d which she dedicated to \u201cthe women of my country\u201d.<\/p>\n Other critics\u2019 favourites in Cannes included arty black-and-white historical drama \u201cFatherland\u201d and \u201cLa Bola Negra\u201d, a big-budget Spanish drama about multiple gay lives.<\/p>\n They both took home prizes for best director.<\/p>\n \u2013 Talking points \u2013<\/p>\n The Cannes Film Festival is the world\u2019s biggest, providing a crucial platform for independent cinema, as well as a showcase for fashion and celebrities to rival the Academy Awards or the Met Gala.<\/p>\n The 79th edition of the festival was packed with its usual stable of A-listers, from John Travolta to Cate Blanchett and Vin Diesel, but Hollywood was under-represented.<\/p>\n No major US studio agreed to launch a blockbuster at Cannes this year, or at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, raising questions about why giants such as Universal, Disney or Warner are dodging European events.<\/p>\n Other big talking points included the use of artificial intelligence in filmmaking, as well as the continued under-representation of women in the industry.<\/p>\n Only five of the 22 films in the main competition this year were directed by women.<\/p>\n Geena Davis, star of \u201cThelma & Louise\u201d which features on the Cannes Festival poster this year, reflected on how the 1991 movie was meant to be a breakthrough for women as she presented a prize.<\/p>\n \u201cAll these years later, we have to acknowledge that the change is happening slowly,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Other prizes in Cannes include best documentary for \u201cRehearsals for a Revolution\u201d, a highly personal account of political repression in Iran by exiled actress and director Pegah Ahangarani.<\/p>\n \u201cElephants in the Fog\u201d \u2014 Nepal\u2019s first-ever film in competition at Cannes \u2014 won the jury prize of the official Certain Regard section Friday for its story about the country\u2019s traditional transgender community.<\/p>\n And the best actor prize in the Certain Regard section went to 18-year-old Bradley Fiomona Dembeasset, who was discovered in a street audition in the Central African capital Bangui for the crowd-pleasing \u201cCongo Boy\u201d, a refugee rap drama.<\/p>\n The post Domestic violence film wins top prize at Cannes Film Festival<\/a> appeared first on KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cFjord\u201d, a thought-provoking drama about domestic violence and left-wing prejudices by Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu, won the best film prize at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday at a star-packed closing ceremony. In his second Palme d\u2019Or-winning film, Mungiu explored the contradictions of Scandinavia\u2019s supposed tolerance in a drama featuring Norwegian star Renate Reinsve (\u201cSentimental […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}