00:00The results are in, but we can't leave Cannes without a round-up.
00:09Chapeau to you, David. Real pain for our enemies. Champagne for you, because you called it right
00:17on that best film.
00:18Yep, Honora by Sean Baker. I mean, it was the, let's say, the crowd-pleasing choice,
00:24because it could have gone either way. They could have gone maybe for a more political
00:27choice, with the Mohamed Razulov, which screened towards the tail end of the festival, with
00:32The Seat of the Sacred Fig. But in the end, Greta Gerwig and her jury went for the consensus,
00:39the critical consensus, and Honora is just a vibrant, very joyful film, and a very well-earned
00:46palm, I think, for Sean Baker.
00:48Any other surprises, though? I mean, like I say, you didn't really miss many tricks
00:53there, but perhaps that Grand Prix?
00:55Grand Prix, I mean, it was interesting to see the first Indian film in competition in
01:0130 years. The last one was in 1994, where Pulp Fiction won the palm. But yes, All We
01:06Imagine is Light, which is this very gentle, very dreamlike film, which clearly stood out
01:12in competition alongside Miguel Gomes' Grand Tour. The main surprise, really, was the fact
01:20that they gave Emilia Perez, the film by Jacques Odiard, this madcap cartel musical,
01:27two prizes, which is rare for Cannes, because usually if you win one prize, that automatically
01:32kind of takes you out of the running for another one. And it won Best Actress for Carla Gascogne,
01:38but at the same time, it was an ensemble piece, so Zoe Saldana was also celebrated with that.
01:45And Carla Gascogne becomes the first transgender performer to ever win an acting prize in Cannes.
01:53Let's move on now to some of the other takeaways that we can say if we resume the last two
01:58weeks here. What for you have been perhaps the highlights and the lowlights?
02:04Films are a little bit too long. I think by and large, even if you liked the films, a
02:10common criticism, even from our highlights, were you could have shaved off 20 minutes.
02:16So there's that. The fact that it was a very sexually charged competition, a lot of nudity,
02:20not gratuitous, mind you. I'd say that another key takeaway is that maybe it's time to bury
02:26the titans. You had the masters of cinema, shall we say, who came to the festival. There
02:31was George Miller, Francis Ford Coppola, there was David Cronenberg. And by and large, I
02:36know I'm in the minority for George Miller and Furiosa, but these films ended up disappointing
02:41and you weren't quite sure what some of them were doing in competition slots. So maybe
02:47this was yet another sign that it's time to kind of give a platform, a boost to directors
02:56who are up and coming and maybe a new generation of voices that would need that little insignia
03:02on their poster can competition, as opposed to these old masters, which by and large
03:09have disappointed.
03:11Well, let's also talk about, briefly if we could, regarding two issues which threatened
03:18to overshadow the festival. Two weeks ago, we spoke about the disgruntled workers and
03:23how they were planning to protest and also this big report into Me Too, which didn't
03:29really materialise.
03:30No, it didn't. I mean, there were a few news pieces that essentially, you know, did name
03:34a few names, but at the end of the day, that seems to have fizzled somewhat. But I mean,
03:40again, it's an ongoing conversation and as Coralie Fargea said in her acceptance speech
03:44for the substance, that this is, the revolution has not yet begun. An interesting statement
03:50because it feels like it has, but I think her point was that this is something that
03:54is going to be happening brick by brick. This isn't a conversation that's going away any
03:58time soon, nor should it. It's an ongoing debate. It's an ongoing reckoning. In order
04:03for that to happen, these questions need to be asked. There needs to be that revolution
04:09and there also needs to be more of a plurality of voices. With only four female directors
04:13in competition this year, it's, a festival like Cannes is lagging behind, specifically
04:19I'm thinking compared to Berlin, who have struck nearly a bit of a 50-50 parity.
04:26But now let's leave you with some of the highlights from Cannes, 77th edition. Thanks for joining us.
04:56Thank you.
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