Cannes 2015: Palme d’Or goes to refugee drama “Dheepan” – STERN

D He won the Palme: “Dheepan”

It’s been a very big moment for a film critic, if you sit at the most important film festival in the world in the movie and think” Holy Shit, that’s the winner! “, it afterwards manifests thrilled is laughed at and then is right. Jacques Audiard’s refugee drama “Dheepan” has fully caught me Thursday morning. To simply times to quote myself:.. “Breath of fresh air in the cinema by the sea because especially eponymous hero Dheepan denied the popular narrative of the sacrifice to which the rich Europe agreed Dheepan has fought in his homeland in the civil war, lost everything, but resumes gun and machete in his hand, if he has to defend his new family. This is unsentimental, deeply human, strength and dignity “. And has in a moment even the force of “Taxi Driver”.

The one already knows from French director Jacques Audiard. Only neither of the cult film “A Prophet”, yet the emotional impact of “The taste of rust and bones” the Palme d’Or him have brought. But now.

 
   
 
   
   

The award for best actress sharing Rooney Mara and Emmanuelle Bercot

Many people think so, the innocent -blassen face of Rooney Mara to see the eyelashes of a new Audrey Hepburn. This is of course nonsense, because Hepburn had never played Lisbeth Salander in “blindness”.

In the supposedly touchingly pure child puts a hard-hitting Darstellungswütige who already knew the age of ten that she wants to be an actress, but not a child star, so waited it, Mara said in an interview with Star .

the price it was now but for the role of restrained Theresa in the wonderfully relaxed love story “Carol” – with Cate Blanchett as an object of desire. Since Mara is a gray mouse, whose feelings awaken different than expected. . And that makes them Hepburn moderately well

Price divided by Emmanuelle Bercot, which was represented in the competition at Cannes two times: as an actress in “Mon Roi” (My King), where they must free themselves from the relationship with a hypnotic-destructive partners (Vincent Cassel). And as a director of “La tête haute” (Back Relief) – a social drama about a difficult boy, the society has given up – with Catherine Deneuve as a juvenile court judge

Rooney Mara would have liked again Salander © Sebastian Nogier

Best Actor: Vincent Lindon

This bitter guy with the charm of the vulnerable is almost unknown in Germany, but a theatrical elemental force (by the way with a slight Tourette’s syndrome because he allegedly was not allowed to marry Caroline of Monaco) – and in France a superstar. In “La Loi du Marché” (The law of the market) Vincent Lindon plays a family man who loses his job and has advocated a new own humanity underfoot. No one would play the can like him. . Point

The great Vincent Lindon © Yves Herman / Reuters

In addition, there was …

… the unbearable, but captivating Auschwitz drama “Son of Saul” the Grand Prix, so silver. And since Sony has secured the film, he will probably be seen in movie theaters.

… the Taiwanese filmmaker Huo Hsiao-hsien and his somewhat long-winded, but imposing historical film “The Assassin” the Director-price.

… “The Lobster” the Jury Prize. A quirky, for my taste a little too abstract dystopia in people who can not find a partner, be transformed into animals.

The Hungarian filmmaker Laszlo Nemes received the same for his first film the Grand Prix: “Son of Saul” © Yves Herman / Reuters

And for those who complain now because they with the Palme d’Or for Audiard ” Dheepan “disagree, here the quote from the Jury President Joel Coen personally:” This jury is not composed of film critics, but from artists “. Baaam!