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Cannes Proved Its Own Value With This Year’s Palme d’Or Winner
If any film fits the impossibly idealist version of Cannes its participants reach for every year, it’s Jafar Panahi’s A Simple Accident.
This year, the group was headed up by Juliette Binoche, presiding over actors Halle Berry, Alba Rohrwacher, and Jeremy Strong, author Leila Slimani, and filmmakers Dieudo Hamadi, Payal Kapadia, Carlos Reygada, and Hong Sangsoo. They gathered on the stage of the Lumière while a series of luminaries, including Cate Blanchett, The Substance director Coralie Fargeat, Almodóvar muse Rossy de Palma, and an impressively décollataged Da’Vine Joy Randolph, traipsed up to the podium to present the awards. Overall, the mood was celebratory, grateful, and a little sentimental, as you might expect from a group of exhausted people who’ve just spent almost two weeks watching movies from around the world, taking in the sunshine, and drinking champagne (which was what The Secret Agent ’s Kleber Mendonça Filho claimed he was doing when he was late to the stage to accept the prize for Best Director).
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