The 2014 Cannes Film Festival wrapped up over the weekend with the Jane Campion led Jury announcing Nuri Bilge Ceylan's three-hour plus drama Winter Sleep as the winner of the Palme d'Or. The film beat out Xavier Dolan's Mommy, which settled for the Jury Prize, along with Jeal-Luc Godard's Goodbye to Language. The runner-up Grand Prix award went to Alice Rohrwacher's Italian-language film The Wonders. Here is a list of the winners:
Grand Prix: The Wonders, Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Prix de la Mise en Scene (best director): Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher
Prix du Scenario (best screenplay): Leviathan, Writers: Andrey Zvyaginstev and Oleg Negin
Camera d’Or (best first feature): Party Girl, Directors: Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis
Prix du Jury (jury prize): Mommy, Director: Xavier Dolan; and Goodbye to Language, Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Prix d’interpretation feminine (best actress): Julianne Moore, Maps to the Stars
Prix d’interpretation masculine (best actor): Timothy Spall, Mr. Turner
The 2014 Cannes Film Festival wrapped up over the weekend with the Jane Campion led Jury announcing Nuri Bilge Ceylan's three-hour plus drama Winter Sleep as the winner of the Palme d'Or. The film beat out Xavier Dolan's Mommy, which settled for the Jury Prize, along with Jeal-Luc Godard's Goodbye to Language. The runner-up Grand Prix award went to Alice Rohrwacher's Italian-language film The Wonders. Here is a list of the winners:
Grand Prix: The Wonders, Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Prix de la Mise en Scene (best director): Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher
Prix du Scenario (best screenplay): Leviathan, Writers: Andrey Zvyaginstev and Oleg Negin
Camera d’Or (best first feature): Party Girl, Directors: Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis
Prix du Jury (jury prize): Mommy, Director: Xavier Dolan; and Goodbye to Language, Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Prix d’interpretation feminine (best actress): Julianne Moore, Maps to the Stars
Prix d’interpretation masculine (best actor): Timothy Spall, Mr. Turner
This week Rialto Channel wraps up it’s celebration of the Cannes Film Festival with another great selection of films. Here are my picks for the week.
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen & Annika Wedderkopp
Directed by: Thomas Vinterberg
Screening: Rialto World, Tuesday 27th May, 8.30pm
Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen (A Royal Affair, Casino Royale) is at his best in this psychological drama from director Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration). Mikkelsen scooped the Best Actor Award at Cannes in 2012 for his role as a kindergarten teacher wrongly accused of molesting a young student and The Hunt must be one of the most nominated foreign films of 2012 - 2013. It picked up a BAFTA, been nominated for a Golden Globe and an Oscar and scooped several more awards at Cannes - to name a few. It’s an uncomfortable film to watch at times, but its also gripping, thought provoking and excellently acted – definitely worthy of your time.
Starring: Kevin Richardson & Kharey Wise
Directed by: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon
Screening: Rialto Documentary, Thursday 29th May, 8.30pm
Ken Burns is a celebrated American documentarian renown for making traditional, exceptionally well-researched documentaries such as his Academy Award winning Brooklyn Bridge, The Civil War, and Frank Lloyd Wright. The Central Park Five is based on his daughter Sarah Burns' best-selling book and is co-directed by Ken, Sarah and her husband David McMahon. It tells the story of five African America and Latino teenagers, who were convicted of raping a white woman in Central Park in 1989. After having spent 6 and 13 years each in prison, a serial rapist confessed to the crime. Much like Peter Jackson’s West of Memphis, this documentary is another shocking tale about the failure of the justice system in America.
Starring: Alice Lowe, Kenneth Hadley & Steve Oram
Directed by: Ben Wheatley
Screening: Rialto British, Monday 26th May, 8.30pm
Ben Wheatley's homicidal caravan yarn Sightseers is not your average road trip flick. It’s a mix of black comedy and horror that pushes its premise to as high up the weird chart as it can go. Written by Sightseer’s two co-stars Alice Lowe and Steve Oram, it tells the tale of a couple from the Midlands whose caravanning holiday descends into a serial murder spree. Some of the gags work better than others, but Sightseers will appeal to those who like their humour dark and twisted.