Cannes Film Festival: “Dheepan” wins Palme d’Or 2015 – THE WORLD

In Cannes, the jury had this year the choice between a perfect, a sensational, a hochkulinarischen film and about the crises in Europe.

The crisis film won the Palme d’Or: “Dheepan” in which the Frenchman Jacques Audiard the social crisis in France, and combines the growing masses of refugees in the world. It is an excellent film, but Cannes is so involuntary tradition to honor filmmakers not for their best Cannes film, but (as it were to compensate) for it.

This was the case with Michael Haneke (” Caché “should have received the Palme d’Or,” The White Ribbon “they got), Nuri Bilge Ceylan had for” Once Upon a Time in Anatolia “will be crowned and was for” hibernation “- and so now Audiard, the Palme already for” A Taste of Rust and bone “(three years ago), or” A Prophet “. deserved (to six)

The most sensational film eventually got silver

It is the third Palme d’Or for a French film (for within eight years, “The Class” and “Blue is a warm color “), but of home advantage can be no question, all they have earned

The sensational film – finally rewarded with the Grand Prix, so to speak, the Silver Palm – was the work of a novice, who had previously directed only short films, the Hungarian László Nemes. He focuses in “Saul Fia” (son of Saul) in never before seen way to a Sonderkommando prisoner in Auschwitz.

All Gruesome, located plays in the background of the image, remains blurred because the film the perspective of Saul takes, must also hide the horror, so as not to lose my mind. But on the soundtrack of the horror still penetrates into us, the horrors arise not on the screen, but in our minds.

The hochkulinarische was Hou Shiao- Hsiens “Never Yinniang” (The Assassin), which finally liberated the martial arts film from the fight and converted into art. The main character, a in the 7th century in China to attacks educated young woman who leads their orders not from. Director Hou, is in his seventh Cannes Competition film instead of sword fights mysterious waving towels in palaces and places his figures like dwarfs in overwhelming Chinese landscapes.

The 68 -year-old Hou received the Director’s Selection Prize, for his first film after eight-year break.

The perfect was Todd Haynes’ film adaptation of Highsmith’s novel “Carol”, a work as a unified whole, the evocation of a time about cars, hairstyles, clothes and especially the repression and role assignments for women in the early fifties in New York.

Best Actor Award for a worker of old School

plenty of candidates for the acting awards. In the women’s Rooney Mara won (when her lesbian feelings conscious expectant department store saleswoman in “Carol”) and Emmanuelle Bercot (as repeatedly verliebende in the unreliable Hallodri Vincent Cassel lawyer) in “Mon Roi”.

could also Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara can be called as cautiously approximate lesbian lovers The winner, or Margherita Buy as between her dying mother and her new film out – and her wily director in Nanni Moretti in “Mia Madre”, or Zhao Tao as deprived of their newly rich Chinese entrepreneurs husband her son’s mother in Jia Zhang-Kes “Shan He Gu Ren” (mountains move)

For men, Tim Roth played in “Chronic” (that the Mexican Michel Franco the screenplay prize earned) perhaps the role of his life as a nurse of the terminally ill, the existential into the thicket of contradictions equipment, develop feelings vs. to obtain or terminate life distancing, life. And Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel played in Paolo Sorrentino’s “Youth” (Youth) a wonderful old boys doubles, a famous conductor and a famous director at the end of their careers in a sanatorium.

But the Best Actor Award went to Frenchman Vincent Lindon, as older unemployed people who in” La Loi du Marché “(The law of the market) again gets a chance but soon has to decide between pay check and conscience. He is a character that you do not often see on the screen: honest rather clever, a worker of the old school, lost in the new era

The. Jury Prize (. so to speak, the No. 3 in the price hierarchy) went to Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Lobster” (The Hummer), who had to have the most original history of the competition: Singles have in the near future in a hotel 45 days to find a new spouse -. or they are transformed into animals

The jury consisted of the president, the directors Joel and Ethan Coen (“No Country for Old Men, “” Fargo “), the actors Jake Gyllenhaal, Sophie Marceau, Sienna Miller and Rossi De Palma (known from many Almodovar films), the Mexican director Guillermo del Toro (” Pan’s Labyrinth “) and his Canadian colleague Xavier Dolan (“Mommy”) and the Malian singer-songwriter Rokia Traoré.