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Will Cannes Film Festival Continue Its Fast & Furious Journey To Crash The Oscar Race? Who Might Be Going All The Way To The Dolby?
The Cannes Film Festival has recently been a strong breeding ground for Oscar contenders, and could this year be any differentr for contenders?
This intense action musical about a drug cartel kingpin out to change his ways and his gender split the Best Actress prize between its four female stars including Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, and trans actor Karla Sofia Gascon who is truly astonishing in the title role. Help is what Coppola’s roll of the dice, Megalopolis could have used from the jury but didn’t get, even as he stood on stage at the closing ceremonyright there with all of them, and knowing there would be no award for his ambitious and ballsy gamble that has much to say about the state of the world and does it as a direct riff on the fall of the Roman Empire in a very odd but entertaining and BIG way. There were other films I caught with possibilities, if not quite Oscar yet, at least at least with other awards groups including Ben Whishaw’s magnificent tour de force in Limonov: The Ballad, and Nicolas Cage’s gonzo turn in the wild The Surfer, a bit of a modern day The Swimmer and just as weird as anything Cheeve could conceive.
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