The 2024 Palme d’Or branch is American and is called Anora. A leader in US independent cinema, filmmaker Sean Baker offers the United States its first Palme d’Or in thirteen years and Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life, crowned in 2011. In the last thirty years, Hollywood cinema has been awarded the highest award by the Cannes jury five times. . A review of the last five of the seventeen US-made fins.
Quentin Tarantino, Palme d’Or 1994, for “Pulp Fiction”
“QT” is now regular in Kan. In 1994, two years after appearing with Reservoir Dogs in a special screening, Quentin Tarantino earned his stripes as a filmmaker with Pulp Fiction, giving the legendary middle finger to disgruntled audiences.
“I think Pulp Fiction was one of the last we saw.”said Clint Eastwood, president of the jury of this 47th edition. “I was surprised that the European jury members in particular started jumping out of their chairs… a few of them turned around and said, ‘This is the best film,’ and I didn’t!” I jumped out of my seat, I was still in my thoughts, but I said it was a really interesting movie, the movie came at a time when we needed a little excitement, when the jury members entered the deliberation room, they were all unanimous. The fact is that it would be a movie..
Thirty years later, the feature film Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Starring Jackson, John Travolta and Bruce Willis (to name a few), it is firmly among the cult classics and must-sees for all moviegoers. And Tarantino in turn became the president of the jury ten years later, in 2004.
Gus Van Sant, 2003 Palme d’Or for The Elephant
In 2003, Gus van Sant scored a double in Cannes. The American director won the Palme d’Or and Best Director for Elephant, which follows a group of high school students in an ethereal and gripping sequence as their institution is murdered by two of their classmates.
Filmed in a real high school with non-professional actors, an elephant It’s a slap in the face that clearly echoes the Columbia shooting that happened four years ago. “It was just a different look.”explained the director. “We’ve never had so many school shootings in America, so I wanted to do something that could bring out the state of mind of the young people who were going to school at that time.
“However, we did not want to explain anything. The public must wonder how such a thing could happen. First of all, I tried to convey a poetic impression, and not to dictate to the audience what happened and what to think about it.. Before making the movie, he watched (and liked) a documentary for Bowling Columbine by a certain Michael Moore…
Michael Moore, Palme d’Or 2004 for Fahrenheit 9/11
under the chairmanship of Quentin TarantinoThe 2004 Palme d’Or is historic. Forty-eight years after The Silent World, a documentary takes top honors on the Croisette: Fahrenheit 9/11 Michael Moore. To date, it is the only documentary to be crowned at the Cannes Film Festival.
Michael Moorerecognized Bowling for Columbine Two Years Before (Prize at the 55th Cannes Film Festival) delivers an anti-George W. Bush thriller that weaves together key events in modern American political history from his controversial election to the American intervention in Iraq, including the 9/11 attacks. , 2001
Reported as a political act aimed at re-electing Bush as President of the United States (he was nevertheless re-elected in November 2004), the feature film was divisive (especially after being promoted by Harvey Weinstein, who is close to Tarantino. ) but achieved worldwide success. . With a gross of $222 million, it has long been the Palme d’Or’s biggest box office hit of all time (pred… Pulp Fiction) until it was overtaken by Parasite in 2019.
Terrence Malick, Palme d’Or 2011 for “The Tree of Life”
Don’t try to figure it out: Terrence Malick Not in this photo. True to his reputation as a secretive filmmaker who avoids media coverage, the American director let his producers Dede Gardner and Bill Pohlad receive the 2011 Palme d’Or, awarded by the jury of the 64th festival, chaired by Robert De Niro.
A poem in pictures that focuses on the intimate (the family) and the grand (the birth of the universe), The tree of life There is a piece, both beautiful (and even breathtaking) and unclassifiable, where Brad Pitt and Sean Penn are (almost) overshadowed by a certain Jessica Chastain, and then brought to the fore thanks to her interpretation.
Pompous or artful, powerful or obscure, the feature film is divided. But he established himself in the history of Cannes and in the history of art in general, 7th included in the five films recommended for students of the prestigious Harvard University.
Sean Baker, Palme d’Or 2024 for “Anora”
Love, hope, energy, sadness and humanity: it’s all there AnoraHe signed the 2024 Palme d’Or award Sean Baker. In the world of striptease, this fairy tale, which resembles a modern Pretty Woman, won over the jury headed by Greta Gerwig and finally established the filmmaker as the new leader of American independent cinema.
53 years old, Sean Baker He is the author of six feature films. Three of them were released in our cinemas: Tangerine, a ball of energy shot on iPhone and which caught the attention of French moviegoers; The Florida project, which made its first appearance at the Quinzaine des Cinéastes in Cannes; and Red Rocket, which will make its competition debut in 2021.
Two of his favorite subjects: sex workers and those who stayed across the Atlantic Ocean, and the desire to seize the codes of stories to deconstruct the American dream. A filmmaker who until now has been private in France (his greatest success did not exceed 200,000 receptions), Sean Baker should finally reach a wider audience with this Palme d’Or.
Source: Allocine
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