Cannes Film Festival: The Palme d’or is awarded to “Triangle of Sadness” directed by Ruben Östlung – The Grand Prix ex aequo is awarded to “Stars of noon” by Claire Denis and “Close” by Lukas Dhont

Awards

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– The Palme d’Or is awarded to Triangle of Sadness directed by Ruben ÖSTLUND

– The Grand Prix ex aequo is awarded to STARS AT NOON by Claire DENIS and CLOSE by Lukas DHONT

– The Directing Prize awarded to PARK Chan-Wook for HEOJIL KYOLSHIM (DECISION TO LEAVE)

– The 75th Anniversary Prize awarded to Jean-Pierre & Luc DARDENNE for TORI AND LOKITA

– The Jury Prize ex-aequo goes to EO by Jerzy SKOLIMOWSKI and LE OTTO MONTAGNE (LES HUIT MONTAGNES) by Charlotte VANDERMEERSCH and Felix VAN GROENINGEN

– The Best Actor Award goes to SONG Kang Ho in BROKER (THE GOOD STARS) directed by KORE-EDA Hirokazu

– Screenplay Prize for BOY FROM HEAVEN (WALAD MIN AL JANNA) by Tarik SALEH

– Best Actress Award for Zar AMIR EBRAHIMI in HOLY SPIDER directed by Ali ABBASI

– The Camera d’or for a first film awarded to WAR PONY by Riley KEOUGH and Gina GAMMELL, presented as part of the Un Certain Regard Official Selection

– Special Mention for a first film awarded to PLAN 75 by HAYAKAWA Chie

– The Palme d’Or for Short Film awarded to THE WATER MURMURS (HAI BIAN SHENG QI YI ZUO XUAN YA) by JIANYING CHEN

– Special Mention for Short Films for LORI by Abinash Bikram SHAH

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8:30 p.m.: Opening of the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival with the winners

6:23 p.m .: The verdict is expected for 8:30 p.m. (6:30 p.m. GMT) during a ceremony broadcast on France 2 and the online channel Brut. The president of the jury, the Frenchman Vincent Lindon, will try not to trip over the carpet like his predecessor Spike Lee who, in 2021, inadvertently revealed the Palme d’Or at the start of the ceremony.

At his side, to draw the winners of this 75th edition, are notably the actress and director Rebecca Hall (“Vicky Cristina Barcelona”), the revelation of “Millenium” Noomi Rapace, the directors Asghar Farhadi (Grand Prize 2021 with “Un heroes”), Ladj Ly (“Les miserables”, jury prize 2019) and Joachim Trier (“Julie in 12 chapters”).

The games remain open to succeed Julia Ducournau, the thirties who shook the Croisette and dusted off the competition last year with “Titane”. The chances of seeing a third director crowned in the history of the Festival seem slim: the American Kelly Reichardt did not transport her audience with “Showing Up”, any more than the French Claire Denis (“Stars at Noon”). And the step seems a bit high for the young talents Charlotte Vandermeersch and Léonor Serraille.

A coronation of Lukas Dhont, a 31-year-old Belgian with a meteoric career, would send an additional signal of rejuvenation for the 75th edition of the most important film festival, which wishes not to lose the link with new audiences.

His heartbreaking film “Close” won the applause meter in official screening (12 minutes of cheers).

It paints the portrait of a boy scarred by a lost friendship, delicately addressing the question of masculinity and the weight of norms. And reveals a talent, the young Eden Dabrine, 15 years old.

But he is not alone in the ranks: the jury could follow the majority of international critics interviewed by Screen magazine, and single out Park Chan-wook, who would thus bring a second Palme d’or to South Korea, three years old after “Parasite” by Bong Joon-ho. “Decision to Leave”, his thriller about an inspector who falls in love with a suspect, reminiscent of “Basic Instinct”, sex and ice pick less, could seduce by the virtuosity of its realization.

The Dardenne brothers are also cited for “Tori and Lokita”, which could earn them a third Palme d’Or, an unprecedented event in the history of Cannes. Other favorites: the American James Gray, very autobiographical in “Armageddon Time” or “Tchaikovsky’s Wife” by the Russian Kirill Serebrennikov, on the composer’s wife, long remained in the shadows and with whom he married to hide his homosexuality.

The coronation of this Russian artist, breaking with the regime, would be an event in itself in the midst of the war in Ukraine, at the end of a Festival which made it a point of honor to offer a large place to this country: from the ceremony opening, President Zelensky summoned the spirit of Chaplin, live from kyiv, and promised the defeat of Putin.