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Cannes Film Festival Winners Analysis: Comedy, Humanity Takes Jury’s Heart Over Politics
'Anora' takes the Palme 'Or at Cannes and it is well deserved as I analyze why more politically potent movies were ignored this year.
I rather thought that director Mohammad Rasoulof would take the Palme d’Or for his stirring, The Seed Of The Sacred Pig, which deals with the oppressive regime in Iran and the crisis in one family where the daughters rise up to protest against the wishes of their father who is a judge handing out death sentences for those who make their voices heard. The acting prizes including the four way “harmony of sisterhood” award to Emilia Perez’s Zoe Saldanan, Karla Sofia Gascon, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz was a nice compromise since they are all great in this Spanish language film from a French director about a cartel leader who decides to change his life and his sex and find a different path. The screenplay award to French director Coralie Forgeat for the wild English language body horror movie comedy, The Substance was well deserved, another great example of a brilliantly written, directed, and performed satire, for which Demi Moore would have been a fine Best Actress winner as well.
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