Ruben Ostlund’s social satire “Triangle of Sadness” has won the Palme d’Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, giving Ostlund one of cinema’s most prestigious awards for the second time.
Ruben Ostlund’s social satire “Triangle of Sadness” has won the Palme d’Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, giving Ostlund one of cinema’s most prestigious awards for the second time.
Ruben Ostlund’s social satire “Triangle of Sadness” won the Palme d’Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, handing Ostlund one of cinema’s most prestigious awards for a second time.
Korean star Song Kang Ho was named best actor at the festival for his performance in Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s film “Broker”, in which a Korean family searches for a home for an abandoned child.
Song, who starred in Bong Joon Ho’s Palme d’Or-winning film “Parasite” at Cannes three years ago, said, “I want to thank everyone who appreciates Korean cinema.”
Tsar Amir Ibrahimi won Best Actress for her performance as a journalist in Ali Abbasi’s “Holy Spider”, a true-crime thriller about a serial killer who targets sex workers in the Iranian religious city of Mashhad. Violent and graphic, “Holy Spider” was not allowed to be shot in Iran and was instead made in Jordan. Accepting the award, Ibrahimi stated that the film depicts “impossible to show in Iran”.
The awards were selected by a nine-member jury headed by French actor Vincent Lindon.
The jury prize was divided between “The Eight Mountains”, the story of Charlotte Vandermarsch and Felix Van Groeningen’s friendship, and Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski’s “EO”, which is about a donkey’s journey in a miserable modern Europe.
“I want to thank my donkeys,” said Skolimowski, who used six donkeys when making the film.
Swedish-Egyptian filmmaker Tariq Saleh took home best screenplay to Cannes for “Boy From Heaven,” a thriller set in Cairo’s Al-Azhar Mosque.
This year’s award for Best Debut went to Riley Keough and Gina Gammel for “War Pony”, a drama about the Pine Ridge Reservation, in collaboration with the Camera d’Or, Oglala Lakota and Sikangu Lakota Nationals.
Saturday’s finale brings a Cannes close attempt to completely revive the annual France extravaganza that was canceled by the pandemic in 2020 and saw modest crowds last year. This year’s celebration also opened against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, which sparked red-carpet protests and a dialogue about the purpose of cinema in war.
Last year, French body horror thriller “Titan” took home the top prize at Cannes, making director Julia DeCornau the second female filmmaker to win the Palme. In 2019, Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” won at Cannes before doing so at the Academy Awards.
This year, the biggest Hollywood films at Cannes — “Elvis,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Three Thousand Years of Longing” — were played outside the competition lineup of 21 Cannes films. But her presence helped restore the glamor of Cannes after the pandemic that has decimated the festival for the past two years.