If any movie fits the impossibly idealist version of cannes its participants reach for every year, IT’S JAFAR PANAHI’S A SIMPLE ACCIDENT.
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Nothing Can Stop the Cannes Film Festival, Not Eve A SUSPECTED ACT of Sabotage. The Morning of the Fest’s Last Day, A Major Outage took Out Power Across Southeastern France, Including the Town of Cannes. Traffic Lights Went Out, Stoles Went Dark, and Hungry Tourists and Atthemes Who Hadn’t with Cash Left Thwarted in their Attempts to BREAKUSE the atms and No Place Card Payments. I was in a screening of oliver lax’s rave survival thriller Sirât When, just at the start of its last act, the sound cut out, and then the Screen Went Dark. The Crowd, in Typical Cannes Fashion, Hooted and Holred, but just minutes late, The Movie Had Started Up Again. The Palais des Festival Swapped to an Independent Power Source, and the Show – Including the Last of the Screenings, Press Conferences, Photocalls, and the Closting That Evening – Went on.
LOTS OF FURIUS SPECULATION ABOUT WHICH TITLE WILL THE PALME D’H, The Coveted Top Prize, take place over the fest’s 12 days, but to actually guess, you have to be able to see the minds and the interactions of the jury tasked with awarding. This year, the group was headd up by by juliette binoche, President Actors Halle Berry, Alba Rohrwacher, and Jeremy Strong, Author Leila Slimani, Diudeal Hamadi, Payal Kapadia, Carlos Reygada, and Hong Sangsoo. They gathered on the stages of the lumière while a series of luminaries, Including Cate Blanchett, Substance Director Coralie Fargeat, Almodóvar Muse Rossy de Palma, and an impresivly décollalataged da’vine joy randolph, traiped up to the podium to the Awards. The 87-Yaar-Old Claude Lelouch made an appearans, as did John C. Reilly, who, Fully Commonted to his mystery romantic neo-vudeville, was joined by a surprise guitri for “la vie en rose” that appeared to Mostly Bemuse.
Overall, The Mood Was Celebratory, Gateful, and A Little Sentimental, As You Might Expect From A Group of Ju’ve Just Almost Two Weeks Watching Movies from Around the World, and Drinking Champagne The Secret Agent‘s kleber thinks Philo Claimed he was doing when he was late to the stage to the Prize for Best Director). There was a talk of the power of cinema, theatrical experience, and cannes itelf to bring People together. “I Believe in International Cinema as a Language, an alternative Language of Unification,” Norwegian Filmmaker Joachim Trier, Whose Sentimental Value was a Massive audience favorite, said in His Acceptance Speech for the Second Place Grand Prix. The Startlingly Handsome Laxe, whose nihilistic bang of a movie Shared the Third Place Jury Prize with another standout, Sound of FallingShared a Story About the Possible History of His Own Mixed Background to a Cab Driver. (The Actor-Director is Spanish, was Born in France, and is of Galician Ancestry.) The Driver Responded with a Saying: “We made you from different tribes in order for you to know each.”
“I Applaud the Festival’s Understanding that Cinema Creates Openings for Wider Social Conversations to Take Place,” Blanchett Said Before Presenting The Palme. “Here, these dialogues are encurated to take root where otherwise they risk being hijacked by the self-secretion world of national and personal political ambition.” Is Cannes a sancarity, or is it a Willful Bubble? Despite all the cinematic utopianism on display, it can be hard to say. Certainly, the most pointed Remark During the ceremony pointed to the latter. Palestinian Actor and Filmaker Tawfeek Barhom, Who Won the Short Film Prize for HIS I’m glad you’re dead NowFinished His Speech by Paraphrasing Jesse Welles “War Isn’t Murder”: “20 Years from now, when Visiting the Gaza Strip, try not to think the dead, and have a nice trip.” And yet, it’s hard to be cynical when the final prize was gioven to Iranian Director Jafar Panahi, Who Slumped Down in His Seat for A Long Minute in Astonishment and Joy Being on Stage to Accept For His Film A SIMPLE ACCIDENT.
It was a wonder to see panahi, in sunglasses and overwhelmed, in person at all. Convicted of “Propaganda Against the Islamic Republic,” he was banned from Making Movies, which nevertheless continued to do, and from leaving Iran, a ruling he abided by for 15 years. HIS WORK TRAVELED WITH HIM IN THAT TIME, PREMERING AND WINNING PRIZES AND PLAUDITS AT LIKE BERLIN AND CANNES FE REMEINED AT HOME. Jailed in 2010, he was impressed again around the time that his last film, No BearsDebut at Venice in 2022. But, after a new Court ruling in his favor, all sentenctions against have have been lifted, rendering Him able to travel and officiously able to again, though he shot A SIMPLE ACCIDENT As he’s made all his recent movies – Secretly and Without Government Approval. And if there any movie that fits the impossibly idealist version of cannes its participants reach for every year, it’s this one.
An Incredibly Dark Comedy of Errors, A SIMPLE ACCIDENT is centered on a man named vahid (vahid mobasseri) who becomes convinced that a customer at the garage where he was work is the intelligence agent who Questioned and tortured Him was he was in prison. He, like the man he and oter the de noitius nicknamed “peg leg,” has a prosthetic limb, and a voice that vahid is sura he recognizes. The rub is vahid was always blindfolded during his encounters with peg leg, so after he kidnaps and preparations to the man, he starts to have doubs, gradually accruption a whole of distress, furious, and mournful fellow Victims, Wedding Day, None of the Who Can Agree on What to Next. It ‘subout grapping with how to live with hating been harmed on Such a profound level, and about whether anything – Violence, Remorse, retaaliation – can provide the cluster its characters Long for. It ‘s deeply angry but also ruefully human movie. Its also a means for its author to delve into his ophtreatment at the Hands of the Iranian Government, and any festival that has the sense to give it an award is demonstrating its. It was a good choice, for a very good year at cannes – an event that no one should attempt to stop.
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