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Cannes Awards Predictions: Deadline’s Critics Make Their Picks For This Year’s Palme D’Or & Other Main Prizes
Cannes 2025: Deadline's critics pick their tips for this year's Palme d'Or.
Iraq’s first film ever here, The President’s Cake — the People’s Choice winner over at Directors’ Fortnight — was an early favorite of mine, as was Scarlett Johansson’s directing debut — Eleanor the Great in Un Certain Regard — starring the incomparable June Squibb, a powerhouse at age 95. This has certainly been the strongest Cannes for many years, and it’s tempting to think that some of the films singled out for a panning (Julia Ducorneau’s Alpha for one) were in the firing line simply because the critics were struggling to find an out-and-out dud to unload on. Screenplay: Two Prosecutors(Sergei Loznitza) After Navad Lapid’s incendiary Yes in Directors’ Fortnight, this is the most political film in the festival, a Kafkaesque nightmare about Soviet life under Stalin that, somehow, we are all now living through.
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