Cannes Jury President Park Chan-Wook Teases: ‘I Didn’t Want to Award the Palme d’Or to Any of the Films’
Park Chan-wook said the jury struggled to separate the top films and needed a tie for some awards before naming Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord the Palme d’Or.
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Norway-Set Drama About Political Polarization ‘Fjord’ Wins Palme d’Or at Cannes
Cristian Mungiu’s Norway-set drama about political polarization, “Fjord,” has won the Palme d’Or, handing the Cannes Film Festival ’s top honor for the second time to Mungiu, the Romanian director of “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.” At a 79th Cannes Film Festival that saw few films cause a stir, “Fjord” found wide admiration... The post Norway-Set Drama About Political Polarization ‘Fjord’ Wins Palme d’Or at Cannes appeared first on The National …
From the Cannes Film Festival to the media empires, the cultural battle is also played on the screens. Read our editorial of Monday, May 25. Would the jury of the Cannes Film Festival have wanted to signify that
The jury of the 79th Festival, chaired by South Korea's Park Chan-wook, delivered its award on Saturday. Like the Golden Palm "Fjord", it testifies to a divided, even fractured world... for good? In the turmoil, award-winning filmmakers still want to give a (small) chance to the human being. - Make love, not the war! What to remember from the record of the 79th Cannes Film Festival (Culture, Media and Entertainment).
Cannes Jury President Park Chan-wook Teases: ‘I Didn’t Want to Award the Palme d’Or to Any of the Films’
Cannes’ jury president, Park Chan-wook — long a Cannes favorite, never a Palme winner — managed to roast himself and plug his latest movie at the closing press conference of the 79th Cannes Film Festival. Park quipped that he struggled with the decision of which film should take this year’s top award. “To be completely […]
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