Best Palme d’Or according to the audience, he is!

Each year, the Cannes Film Festival awards the competition’s best film, which is then crowned with the Palme d’Or, the highest prize awarded by its official jury. At AlloCiné, it’s your ratings, the viewership that matters to us, and which, with the reputation of the work, often make it rain or shine.

In connection with this 76th edition of Cannes and before the discovery of the 2023 Palme d’Or branch, we tried to find out which Palm is the most appreciated here from the films that have received more than 10,000 ratings from you. According to your distinctive taste. Here are the five movies you voted for, from fifth to first!

It is worth noting that in sixth position (barely played!) Jane Campion’s masterful piano lesson (the first director to receive the Palm) stood out, scoring 4 out of 5. Each work with modest and sensual poetic staging, which also crowned Holly Hunter with the best actress award in 1993. Before Jane Campion we have:

5th – taxi driver 4.29 out of 5

Martin Scorsese and Kahn, this is a great love story made from Taxi Driver, which won the Palme d’Or in the 1976 edition, despite the a priori reserved welcome of the president of the jury, Tennessee Williams, who considered the film too violent. Surprised and grateful, the young director, still unknown to Hollywood, admitted that he became more courageous after this first blessing, strongly supported by two members of the jury, Sergio Leone and Costa Gavras, who immediately won the film.

A feverish film that tells the wanderings of Travis Bickle, a war-wounded hero, damaged by loneliness and growing paranoia, in the middle of the night and cold New York of the 70s. Directed by the stunning Robert De Niro. A very young Jodie Foster is unsettling, this real-life descent into hell is fueled by impeccable staging, both dark and realistic, and knowing with little touches and well-seen shots to brilliantly hint at her protagonist’s progressive schizophrenia. An unacceptable moment of cinema.

Watch the trailer of Martin Scorsese’s iconic film

4- Pianist rated 4.38 out of 5

In 2002, Roman Polanski presents his most personal work since the beginning of his career at Cannes. A coming-of-age film that, if it deals with his family history, is neither autobiography nor fiction, but an adaptation of an authentic testimony. The horror experienced by a professional pianist in the Warsaw ghetto and his encounter with the music-loving German officer who helps him survive.

In addition to its prestigious Palme d’Or, The Pianist will be awarded with many awards, in particular, it will win the Cesar and the Oscar for the best film in the same year, but also for the best actor for the moving Adrien Brody, who is drawn with enough vigilance.

The play is focused on the non-verbal, magnified by an uplifting soundtrack, sustained emotions, contained staging: this historical drama honors the duty of memory with sensitivity and modesty.

The pianist is pictured here.

Third – Apocalypse Now is rated 4.39 out of 5

A film of all excesses, Apocalypse Now sparked debate in the 1979 official jury, going so far as to force its president, Françoise Sagan, to leave the festival before the awards ceremony, crying over the pressure and the cost of her decision being made known. Palme au Tambour by Volker Schlöndorff.

Already awarded 5 years earlier, Francis Ford Coppola was also rumored to have agreed to submit his film to Cannes only on the condition that it was in competition and dared to break the rules of the time before finally allowing himself to be screened at the festival. – Guests A non-final version, embellished with three different endings. Finally, the decision has been made to award two films ex-Aequo. The cost doesn’t matter.

If Schlöndorff’s work counts, Coppola’s work has forever marked the history of cinema, from his famous nightmarish shoots to his huge success in theaters (4,537,867 admissions). Centered on the Vietnam War, the apocalyptic film condemns the madness of armed conflict, plunges into the darkness of the depraved soul of the protagonist, played by the masterful Marlon Brando, surrounded by the unforgettable Martin Sheen and Robert Duvall. Excellent, very good show.

2nd – Parasite is rated 4.47 out of 5

And the golden palm branch that is unanimous, one! A combination of the press and the public, the Cannes Film Festival and the box office, as well as the “fascinated” jury members, Bong Joon Ho’s tumultuous social thriller won the Palme d’Or with the most participation in 2019. (1,667.353 million) for 15 years, Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 which meanwhile counted more than 2 million admissions at that time.

A scathing social satire, Parasite simply impresses: the scale and virtuosity of its staging and its masterful mix of comedy and brutality, between burlesque and horror, serve as an effective denunciation of social inequality and the resulting class struggle in its country. .

A worthy representative of the Korean New Wave, Bong Joon Ho is also the first South Korean filmmaker to win Cannes’ top prize, as well as the Oscar for Best Picture, which has not yet been awarded to a foreign language work.

Here is an excerpt from the movie.

1st – Pulp Fiction rated 4.5 out of 5

And the Palme des palmes goes to Pulp Fiction, which according to your votes is the most worthy film awarded by the festival. A plebiscite that did not take place in 1994, when Quentin Tarantino took the stage to return the famous prize awarded by the jury to Clint Eastwood. “What a load of crap, set it up… do a c…”, We hear screams He entered the room, while the already provocative young director and his gang happily stormed the stage. Quentin, with a thud, once again extends a rather relaxed middle finger in the angry man’s direction.

“I never expect to win awards at festivals because I don’t make films to unite people. My films are divisive…” : As brilliant as it is crazy, bloody and crazy, his work above all reinvents the gangster film, embodied here by the forbidden heroes (the legendary John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson) with incredible dialogues and scenes that became. Iconic, highlighted by a non-linear narrative that skillfully weaves together several separate and ultra-referential stories.

And tell us what we thought of its soundtrack? Listen instead!