Skin: Five 2022 Film Festival Acquisitions

The 75th Cannes International Film Festival closed on Saturday after two weeks of premieres, parties, red carpet glamor and haggling, with a heavy dose of political protest. The Palme d’Or branch was conquered by the capital of Ruben Ostlund on Saturday night. Satire the pain triangle – added the Swedish director, who won here in 2017 Square – The tiny Double Palm Prisoners Club (Ken Loach, Francis Ford Coppola and the Darden brothers among them) hosted the biggest event the movie world has seen since COVID-19.

This year many sat at the festival. The organizers on the ground had to celebrate the festival in the Festival Unmasked / Uncertified in the midst of a furious pandemic, as well as Cannes, which is reopening cinemas around the world, held the event of the 75th anniversary of a fire for health of the movie. industry.

Here are five aspects of the Cannes Film Festival.

The skin is back!

Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremo has promised that the 2022 Diamond Jubilee will mark the return to the film festival after a two-year pandemic. And the skin hit all fronts: wow with successful debuts and parties – thunder plane red carpet Top Gun: MaverickWarner Bros. Elvis fête – Highlights of Noisy Art House in competition (the decision to leave, the pain triangle) And out (Gina Gamel and Riley Kyo war ponyCharlotte Wales debuts at Critics Week ᲛAfter) And the crowded theaters reinforce the feeling that this theater may have a future.

The news of the film’s death is greatly exaggerated.

The theater business slumped during COVID, even though streaming services were on the upswing. Many have calculated traditional shooting and the independent ecosystem that supports it. But traditional buyers dominated in Cannes. Sony Pictures Classics bought Korean drama Dave Chow back to seoul And Mia Hansen-Love’s Two-Day Director Title Have a nice day With Léa Seydoux; The A24 took over North America ᲛAfter And winner of the Lucas Dont Jury Prize Near; New distributor Utopia gets domestic rights to Ali Abbas’ Iranian noir thriller Holy Spider; The IFC took from Christian Mungiu a Romanian competition of this type NMRAnd Vicky Cripps’ period drama Body, And … And then. Digital exploration will be a big part of the payoff for all these titles, but they’ll be on the big screen before your phone gets anywhere near you.

The war in Ukraine will not be ignored.

The reality of the ongoing war in Ukraine has cast a shadow over this year’s festival. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the audience at the opening night gala via a live video link, urging filmmakers not to “stand idly by” until their country was on fire. At George Miller’s Premiere three thousand years of longingThe woman was nearly naked to reveal her body, painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, with the inscription “Stop our rape” on her body. movie directors back butterfly visionThe only Ukrainian film in the official competition used its red carpet to parade a banner on social media protesting what they see as censorship of the war in Ukraine. “The Russians are killing the Ukrainians. Do you find it offensive or upsetting to talk about this genocide?” To read. All it took was a reality check that destroyed the skin bladder.

Neon scored a hat-trick at the Palma de Oro branch

For the third year in a row, Tom Quinn, Neon’s specialist dealer, won the North American theatrical rights to the Cannes title, winning the Palme d’Or. This year was the social satire of Swedish director Ruben Ostlund the pain triangleAfter Julia Ducurnau’s Body Horror Drama Titanium In 2021 and Bong Jun-ho’s world-conquering comedy drama Parasite The year before the 2019 pandemic. Critics were brutally split on the skin. the pain triangleSome bemoaned how Ostlund abandoned the sophistication and sophistication of his earlier work due to more vague and raw social criticism, while others praised the film for the same reason. Still, Neon may have a commercial winner on its hands the pain triangleTimely and fun showers for the rich, as well as a winning round from Woody Harrelson. The film stars a couple of models who are stranded on a desert island with a group of billionaires and a maid after a disaster on their expensive cruise ship. The social and financial hierarchy in the struggle for survival is upside down, not unlike communal communities. Parasite, which earned $53.4 million for Neon in North America and won four Oscars. After strengthening its status as a creator of neon tastes as an American art house, the company also acquired the rights to the famous drama by Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda in Cannes. HallStarring Korean leader Song Kang-ho (Parasite), which won the Best Actor award at Cannes.

Are donkeys new dogs?

Receiving the joint jury award from the official competition EO, Director Jerzy Skolimowski not only named the six donkeys who played the central character in his favorite drama (coming-of-‘bray’ge?), but also ended his performance with the dramatic “Eyeore.” ! he screamed in his lungs. At the awards show, whether in film or not, it was almost the first time that a scream hinted at the emergence of a new animal atop a tree from the skins of cinematic creatures. For the past 21 years, the Palm Dog Award has given the screen the highest rating on the Dogs on the Croisette list, marking the festival’s best four-legged performances. But EOThe donkeys, for the first time in Cannes, seemed to have the status of best silent show with sharp hooves on their heads. Coincidentally, although it was the beasts of this shipment that left the skin as an attraction of the animal’s mane, on the eve of the palm dog ceremony, another beast received the first prize. Britt, a silver poodle who played a monster in Riley Kyo and Gina Gamel war ponyDefending the embossed gold necklace, the co-directors received the award via video link. Speaking before the ceremony, Palm Dog founder Toby Rose sighed as the donkeys stepped on his dog’s paws. “Every year a mixed species tries to drive out the king dog, and this year is no different,” he said. “Onk palm? I don’t believe”.