“Sorry, I kept shaking my head,” Ducoernau said, holding his breath. “Is this true? I don’t know why I speak English now because I am French. Tonight is so perfect because it is not perfect.”

After several mistakes, Lee begged Sharon Stone to announce the Palme d’Or and explained: “She will not mess things up.” The problem started when Lee was asked to say which award would be awarded first. . Instead, he announced the final prize of the night, while juror Mati Diop buried his head in her hands, and everyone else rushed to stop him.

Li himself held his head in both hands for a few minutes, and then apologized for eliminating a lot of suspense at night.

“I don’t have any excuses,” Li told reporters later. “I messed up,” he added. “It’s that easy.”

The long-awaited victory

Lee is the first black chairman of the jury in Cannes. His jury members are: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Melanie Laurent, Song Kanghao, Taha Raheem, Marty Diop, Jessica Hausner, Kleber Men Donka Filho and Melin Farmer.

Ducournau’s victory was a long-awaited victory. The only female filmmaker ever to win the highest honor at the Cannes Film Festival – one of the most prestigious awards in the film industry – was Jane Campion. piano 1993.

In 2019, another genre movie-Feng Junhao’s Parasites -Before continuing to win the Oscar for Best Picture, he also won the Palme Award.It is said that the jury led by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu unanimously passed this choice, but titanium -An extremely violent film-This year’s jury stated that it was produced through a process of democratic dialogue and debate. Gyllenhaal said they did not agree on anything.

in titanium, Like Parasites To be released in the United States by Neon, Agathe Rousselle plays a serial killer fleeing his homeland. As a child, a car accident caused her to wear a titanium plate on her head and had a strange connection with the car. In the most talked about scene at the festival, she was pregnant by a Cadillac. Lee called it a unique experience.

The closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival ended with a 12-day red carpet premiere, regular COVID-19 testing of many attendees, and the first major film festival to be held in almost usual fashion since the pandemic began. The Cannes Film Festival has a small audience and a mandatory requirement to wear masks in theaters, thus driving the ambitious global film market. Last year’s festival was completely cancelled by the pandemic.

Solid slate

A year after the film was shrunk to a smaller screen and covered with spider webs on the red carpet, assembled as a way to help make a sensational movie, it is widely regarded as powerful and features many leading international filmmakers. The awards are widely distributed.

Grand prize is equally divided by Asghar Farhadi’s Iranian drama A hero With Finnish director Juho Kusmanen Booth 6.

Best Director Award goes to Leos Carax Annette, A fantasy musical starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard kicked off the festival.

The jury also divides the jury bonus equally.Nadav Lapid’s Ahed’s knee, A passionate drama about creative freedom in modern Israel; and the work of Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasthakul memory, A meditation movie starring Tilda Swinton.

Caleb Landry Jones won the best actor award for his performance in a fact-based Australian mass murderer. Nitramine By Justin Kuzel. Renate Reinsve won the best actress award for work by Joachim Trier The worst person in the world. The best script is by Ryusuke Hamaguchi Drive my car, Haruki Murakami adapted from Oe Takamasa.