![]() ![]() The biggest wattage premieres came out of competition. Saturday’s ceremony drew to close a Cannes edition that hasn’t lacked spectacle, stars or controversy. The festival’s Un Certain Regard section handed out its awards on Friday, giving the top prize to Molly Manning Walker’s debut feature, “How to Have Sex.” “My cinema is uninhibited, full of excess and fun,” said Corman, the independent film maverick. Tarantino praised Corman for filling him and countless moviegoers with “unadulterated cinema pleasure.” Quentin Tarantino, who won Cannes’ top award for “Pulp Fiction,” attended the ceremony to present a tribute to filmmaker Roger Corman. ![]() “Monster” also won the Queer Palm, an honor bestowed by journalists for the festival’s strongest LGBTQ-themed film. Vietnamese-French director Tràn Anh Hùng took best director for “Pot-au-Feu,” a lush, foodie love story starring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel and set in a 19th century French gourmet château.īest screenplay was won by Yuji Sakamoto for “Monster.” Sakamoto penned Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s nuanced drama, with shifting perspectives, about two boys struggling for acceptance in their school at home. “I would like to dedicate this prize to all the women who are fighting to exist and overcome difficulties in this world and to retrain hope.” ![]() “I understand what it’s like to be a woman in this area of the country,” said Dizdar. Dizdar plays a friend both attracted and repelled by Samet. The Turkish actor Merve Dizdar took best actress for the Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “About Dry Grasses.” Ceylan’s expansive tale is set in snowy eastern Anatolia about a teacher, Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu), accused of misconduct by a young female student. ![]()
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