Cinema Quiz: Palm or no Palm, did these 8 films win Cannes?

The Cannes Film Festival, held annually in May in France since 1946, is undoubtedly one of the most prestigious seventh art award ceremonies in the world, along with the Berlin and Venice festivals or the Oscars. And like every such cultural event, the history of this institution and in particular the long-awaited presentation of the Palme d’Or offered some memorable situations.

In 1987, Maurice Pialat won the Palme d’Or for Sous le soleil de Satan, twenty years after the last Frenchman to receive the award (Claude Lelouch for Un homme et une femme). Only when the director goes on stage to accept the prize, a few whistles are heard. It doesn’t take much to enrage this filmmaker, who is known for his fiery temper, and once on stage he delivers his now-famous sentence to the room: “If you don’t love me, I can tell you I don’t either”.

Another recent anecdote set in 2021 for Coronation of the Titans directed by Julia Ducournau. As onstage emcee Doria Tillier talks to jury president Spike Lee to ask what the “first” prize (in the sense of which category) is awarded, the Do the Right Thing director gets up and starts announcing, all too soon. , the name of the winner of the Palme d’Or, caused laughter and discomfort on stage and in the audience. A quickly forgotten incident that the director would later return to at a press conference to apologize for the confusion.

Therefore, it is a quiz on the past of the Palme d’Or that we propose to close this fortnight in Cannes. The principle is simple: one picture, it’s up to you to tell us whether its corresponding film won a prestigious award!