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THE CURRENT WAR THE WAR WITH GRANDPA Directed by: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Directed by: Tim Hill Written by: Michael Mitnick Written by: Tom J. Astle & Matt Ember Producers: Harvey Weinstein, Based on the book by Robert Kimmel Smith Timur Bekmambetov, Basil Iwanyk, Cast: Robert De Niro, Uma urman, Steven Zaillian, Garrett Basch, Ann Ruark Christopher Walken Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Producers: Marvin Peart, Phillip Glasser, Michael Shannon, Katherine Waterston, Rosa Morris Peart Tuppence Middleton, Tom Holland, Release Date: 10/20/17 Nicholas Hoult Worldwide: TWC Release Date: 12/22/17 Worldwide: TWC POLAROID Directed by: Lars Klevberg MARY MAGDALENE Written by: Blair Butler Based on the short lm “Polaroid” Directed by: Garth Davis directed by Lars Klevberg WIND RIVER Written by: Helen Edmundson and Cast: Kathryn Prescott, Javier Botet, Mitch Pileggi Philippa Goslett Directed and Written by: Taylor Sheridan Producers: Roy Lee, Chris Bender, Producers: Basil Iwanyk, Peter Berg, Matthew George, Wayne Rogers, Elizabeth A. Bell Producers: Iain Canning, John Einar Hagen, Petter Onstad Løkke Emile Sherman, Liz Watts Cast: Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen Release Date: 8/25/17 Release Date: 8/4/17 Cast: Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Worldwide: TWC U.S.: TWC International: MadRiver Pictures and Voltage Pictures Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tahar Rahim Release Date: 11/24/17 UNTOUCHABLE REMAKE Domestic: TWC International: Universal Pictures Directed by: Neil Burger Written by: Jon Hartmere Based on the lm “Intouchables” by THE NUT JOB 2 Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache Directed by: Cal Brunker Cast: Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston, Nicole Kidman Written by: Cal Brunker, Bob Barlen, Producer: G. Mac Brown Scott Bindley Worldwide: TWC Cast: Will Arnett, Maya Rudolph and Katherine Heigl and a special appearance by Jackie Chan FAHRENHEIT 11/9 Producers: Harry Linden, Jongsoo Kim, Directed, Written and Produced by: Michael Moore Youngki Lee, Li Li Ma, Jonghan Kim Producers: Carl Deal, Meghan O’Hara Domestic: Open Road Films International: TWC Worldwide: TWC

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2 THEWRAP MAY 2017 Contents CANNES I MAY 2017 DEPARTMENTS

4 By the Numbers: How the Cannes class of 2017 adds up FEATURES 4 Fest Fever: Ranking the other 16 ONE OF A KIND great ﬁlm festivals The inimitable Tilda Swinton; plus, streaming 8 Critic’s Choice: Alonso Duralde comes to the Croisette considers the slate

22 THE DIRECTORS 10 Short Takes: 5 intriguing ﬁlms, PORTFOLIO 1 culinary premiere Noah Baumbach, Todd Haynes, Yorgos 12 Mr. President: Meet Pedro Lanthimos, Michel Almodóvar and his jury Hazanavicius and more Cannes auteurs 36 Decisions, Decisions: The inside scoop from the jury room 34 CHINA TOWN How Chinese money may affect the market

16ON THE COVER Tilda Swinton was photographed for TheWrap by Nicolas Guerin at L’Hotel

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FESTIVALS Cannes 2017 by the Numbers THE TOP 25

We can all agree that Cannes is the world’s greatest ﬁlm festival, 17 Directors in competition who have had lms at Cannes in the past right? But what comes next? With hundreds of international fests Competition directors who have never had a lm at Cannes: to choose from, ranking can be 2 Noah Baumbach, Robin Campillo a daunting task—but here’s our guide to the best of the rest. Competition directors who have had at least ve movies at Cannes: 3 Michael Haneke, Hong Sang-soo, Naomi Kawase BY STEVE POND

Competition director who has won the Palme d’Or: 1. Cannes Film Festival 1 Haneke, for The White Ribbon and Amour Cannes, France—May Of course. Competition directors whose previous lms have been nominated for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar: Haneke (The White Ribbon and 2. Sundance Film Festival 3 Amour), Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth), Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan) Park City, Utah, USA—January The festival that helped create the indie-film movement is unrivaled for American indie films, Competition director whose lm has won the foreign-language Oscar: and its lineup of documentaries usually supplies 1 Haneke, Amour more than half the Oscars shortlist. es, getting around can be miserable if the weather doesn’t cooperate, but no other festival has created a Competition director whose lm has won the Best community the way Sundance has. 1 Picture Oscar: Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist

Competition directors who have been nominated for the Best 3 Director Oscar: Haneke, Hazanavicius, Soa Coppola

3 Female directors in competition: Coppola, Kawase, Lynne Ramsay Female directors screening at Cannes out of competition: Jane Campion, Bonni Cohen, Anahita Ghazvinizadeh, 6 Vanessa Redgrave, Kristen Stewart, Agnès Varda 3. Toronto International Film Festival Toronto, Ontario, Canada—September Female directors in Un Certain Regard: The other fall festivals are prettier and less Cecilia Atan & Valeria Pivato, sprawling, but there’s no better way to kick o 4 Valeska Grisebach, Annarita Zambrano awards season than to wade deeply into the hundreds of oerings at Toronto. Sometimes, size does matter. Director with two lms in the ocial selection: 1 Hong Sang-soo, The Day Aer and Claire’s Camera Nicole Kidman performances at Cannes: The Beguiled, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, 4 How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Top of the Lake 4. Venice International Film Festival Venice, Italy—August/September The world’s oldest film festival and one of its Television shows at Cannes: most beautiful, Venice is the classy kicko to fall Twin Peaks, Top of the Lake festival season. Birdman, La La Land and Gravity 2 are among the recent films that have launched in Venice. Virtual-reality art installations in the ocial selection: Carne y Arena 5. Telluride Film Festival 1 Telluride, Colorado, USA—September This is the ultimate boutique festival, with a Documentaries in the ocial selection: Demons in Paradise; An Inconvenient lineup that’s a fraction of Toronto’s but a seven- Sequel: Truth to Power; Le Venerable W.; Napalm; Promised Land; Sea Sorrow; year streak of showing the film that’ll go on to 8 12 Days; Visages, Villages

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NETFLIX LUKE SILVER-GREENBERG \ +1-323-300-5150 OKJA CANNES WRAP 05/01/17 MECH 03 TRIM 9.65” x 13.38” | LIVE 8.6” x 12.38” | BLEED 10.15” x 13.88” FRONT & CENTER / By the Numbers FESTIVALS More Cannes 2017 by the Numbers THE TOP 25 Competition lms by country of origin

4 North America 0 South America

11 Europe 0 Africa 4 Asia 6. Berlin International Film Festival Berlin, Germany—February The Berlinale joins Cannes and Venice among Europe’s big three, kicking o the year with an enormous selection of films and an affiliated film market. Recent Oscar nominees that premiered at Berlin include The Grand Budapest Hotel, Fire at Sea and A Separation. 70 Number of years the Cannes Film Festival has been held 7. South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival Austin, Texas, USA—March 1,710 Funkier and more raucous than the higher-ranked Number of lms selected for the main competition, 1946-2017 fests, SXSW is sprawling and energetic and more attuned to genre icks than to the kind of prestige pictures that either premiered in Sundance or are waiting to see if they’ll get into Cannes. But in conjunction with music and interactive festivals, it has Directors in the ocial selection who are older than the festival: Michael an unruly energy all its own. 6 Haneke, Agnès Varda, Raymond Depardon, David Lynch, Abbas Kiarosta- 8. International Documentary Film mi (died in 2016 at the age of 76), Barbet Schroeder Festival Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands—November Age of youngest director in the competition, Benny Safdie A number of nonfiction festivals could easily fit 31 on this list, including Hot Docs, True/False, Full Frame and Sheffieldbut we’ll give the nod to IDFA, the biggest of the doc festivals and one Age of oldest director in the competition, Michael Haneke that annually attracts the cream of the nonfiction 75 filmmaking community. 9. Annecy International Animated Film Festival 91 Age of oldest director in the ocial selection, Claude Lanzmann Annecy, France—June This isn’t the place for DisneyPixar or DreamWorks Animation, but Annecy always reinforces how vibrant the animation format is outside the mainstream. Films that have been showcased here include My Life as a Zucchini, 20 million Miss Hokusai, April and the Extraordinary World, Cannes Film Festival budget, in Euros Long Way North and Boy & the World. 10. New York Film Festival New York, New York, USA—September/ 3,761 October Number of credentialed journalists in 2016 Presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, NFF has made a conscious eort in recent years to have a presence in awards season 32,465 Life of Pi, 20th Century Women and The Social Number of credentialed lm professionals in 2016 Network all premiered here. 11. Hong Kong International Film Festival Hong Kong—March/April In addition to being Asia’s oldest international Films with numbers in their titles: 120 Battements Par Minute, 12 film festival and showcasing more than 200 3 Days, 24 Frames films annually, Hong Kong now works with Heyi Pictures to produce two films from young All statistics are accurate as of press time; additional lms may have been added since then. Chinese filmmakers every year. IMAGES GETTY TKTK Credit Gutter

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FRONT & CENTER / A Passel of Punditry FESTIVALS THE TOP 25 12. Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic—July Set in an impossibly picturesque spa town outside of Prague, Karlovy Vary would be a must-visit festival just for its setting. But it’s been in operation for as long as Cannes, and it presents many of the finest films out of Eastern Europe.

13. London Film Festival The Beguiled Wonderstruck London, England—October Backed by the British Film Institute, London is also timed as a prime launching pad for films that are hoping for Oscars and, especially, BAFTA Awards. Our Critic’s Take BY ALONSO DURALDE

here’s no question that it’s a great to plan a second wave at the end of the year honor to have your film selected aimed at awards voters. for competition at the Cannes Film Other potential Academy Awards contend- Festival. There’s also no question ers—including Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck, that the glare of the spotlight can Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Here, Yorgos Tbe damaging as well as helpful: If you’re a Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer (which 14. Outfest high-profile filmmaker unveiling your latest also features both Farrell and Kidman)—are Los Angeles, California, USA—July work in competition on the Croisette, then bound to hit screens in the U.S. later in the LGBT cinema is showcased at more than the response, be it cheers or raspberries, will year, most likely after making North American 70 international festivals, but Outfest’s 1982 quickly make its way around the world. debuts at the Toronto, Telluride or New York founding and Los Angeles base make it one (Sometimes, it’s both—2016 saw Canadian festivals. Whether or not Netflix movies of the most inuential, showcasing more than boy wonder Xavier Dolan return to Cannes can make it into Oscar’s good graces will be 20,000 LGBT films and videos over the decades. with It’s Only the End of the World, a movie tested by two titles—Bong Joon Ho’s Okja and 15. San Sebastián International Film that was savaged by critics before Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Festival winning the jury’s Grand Prize.) If you flop Stories—that represent the stream- Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain—September When it comes to aiming films at at Cannes, ing service’s first foray into the A fixture in northeast Spain since 13, San an American audience, a case could Cannes competition. Sebastián is the essential festival for the cinema be made that the risks outweigh the it might The competition lineup also of Spanish-speaking countries. advantages—if you flop at Cannes, bury your features a healthy showing of 16. AFI Fest it might bury your movie into a movie foreign-language filmmakers who Los Angeles—November tiny, barely publicized release in the have accrued a significant follow- Most of the indies and international films that U.S. (for example, Gus Van Sant’s into a tiny, ing among American movie fans, are screened at this Hollywood festival have The Sea of Trees), while even good barely including François Ozon (L’amant premiered elsewhere, but the location and the reviews won’t necessarily get you publicized double), Michael Haneke (Happy calendar make this a prime place for the studios any wider a domestic distribution End), Arnaud Desplechin (Ismael’s to showcase their awards contenders. (for example, Matteo Garrone’s gem U.S. release Ghosts), Fatih Akin (In the Fade), 17. Melbourne International Film The Tale of Tales). Michel Hazanavicius (Redoubtable) Festival For Oscar pundits, Cannes is viewed as an and Andrey Zvyagintsev (Loveless). Melbourne, Australia—August early stop on the road to the Dolby Theatre, It’s not a particularly diverse slate this Launched in 12, Melbourne is one of the oldest with the real action revving up at summer’s year—there are no films from Africa (although film festivals in the world, the biggest fest in end with the troika of festivals in Venice, Barkhad Abdi of Captain Phillips fame stars the Southern Hemisphere and an unparalleled Toronto and Telluride. Still, a good showing in alongside Jennifer Jason Leigh and Robert showcase for Australian film. May can augur well for English-language and Pattinson in Good Time), and only three of Best Foreign Film contenders alike. the competition titles are directed by wom- 18. Palm Springs International Film Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, based on en—but the glitz factor will be as high as ever, Festival Palm Springs, California, USA—January the Thomas Cullinan novel that previously with international stars like Jacqueline Bisset, Founded by then-mayor Sonny Bono in 1989, inspired Don Siegel’s 1971 version, is the rare Marion Cotillard, Isabelle Huppert, Julianne PSIFF launches with a star-studded awards gala title using Cannes as a springboard for an Moore, Adam Sandler, Diane Kruger and and then settles into 10 days of international immediate release. Coppola’s film opens June many more making the scene. The theory of programming with a special interest in the 23 in the U.S., so while Focus will presumably the Cannes Film Festival is that art edges out Oscars’ daunting foreign-language category, launch theatrically with red-carpet photos of commerce, but dealmaking and genre-defying typically booking more than 0 of the films that Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell still fresh in rub shoulders very easily every May on the are competing in that race. moviegoers’ memories, the studio will need Riviera. W

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CANNES 2016 . PALAIS . Riviera J1 Tel: +33 (0)4 92 99 32 35 FRONT & CENTER / Short Takes FESTIVALS THE TOP 25 The 5 Most Intriguing 19. Santa Barbara International Film Festival Films at Cannes Santa Barbara, California, USA— January/February Just as Palm Springs is timed to take place Carne y Arena during or just before Oscar nomination voting, (Virtually present, so is Santa Barbara scheduled to land just Physically invisible) after noms and before final voting starts. It This virtual-reality experience shows indie films by day and stages star- even confused festival gener- studded tributes almost every night. al delegate Thierry Frémaux, 20. Sarajevo Film Festival who mistakenly described it Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina— as a short lm at the press August conference announcing Sarajevo’s festival began in 1995 during Cannes titles. In fact, it’s a VR the siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian War, exploration of Mexican and with films smuggled into the city through a Central American refugees tunnel and projected in makeshift theaters. directed by Alejandro G. The facilities are fancier now, but the festival Iñárritu and shot by three- remains a moving tribute to the power of art in time Oscar winner Emmanuel the toughest of times. Lubezki. 21. Tribeca Film Festival New York City—April Top of the Lake: Created in Lower Manhattan in the wake of China Girl and Twin 11 by Robert De Niro and ane Friedman, Peaks Tribeca is a New ork-centric fest that boasts TV or not TV? Festival a strong documentary lineup Virunga was president Pierre Lescure launched here) and manages to land a fair tried to dodge the question number of premieres despite its position on by pointing out that Jane the calendar a month after SXSW and a month Campion and David Lynch are before Cannes. both Cannes-approved movie 22. Los Angeles Film Festival directors “using the classical Los Angeles—June art of cinema,” but in fact the It’s tough to create a destination festival in a inclusion of episodes from town that’s fixated on movies all year round, but Campion and Lynch’s tele- Film Independent, which runs LAFF, typically vision series are a sign that assembles a diverse and impressive program. Cannes is nally accepting 23. Guadalajara International Film small-screen work. Festival Guadalajara, Mexico—March Jeanette, l’Enfance Here’s where you can go to find the old de Jeanne D’Arc masters and hottest young talents in Latin Bruno Dumont, who brought American cinema. the wild, gender-bending, 24. Savannah Film Festival cannibalism-spiked farce Savannah, Georgia, USA—October/ Slack Bay to Cannes last year, November now has a lm about the Run by the Savannah College of Art and childhood of Joan of Arc. And Design, the fest is now in its 20th year of films did we mention it’s a musical? and tributes in a picturesque Georgia setting. Sea Sorrow 25. Seattle International Film Festival At a time when every festival Seattle, Washington, USA—May brings new lms about the The largest festival in the .S. lasts almost a full crisis in Syria, this one should month and attracts more than 10,000 people. be dierent: Prompted by the photo of a 3-year-old Syrian Honorable mentions: Napa Valley refugee’s lifeless body on a Film Festival (for drinking/dining/ viewing), Cameraimage (for Turkish beach, and taking cinematography), Film Fest Gent its title from Shakespeare’s (for film music), Nantucket Film The Tempest, the lm is from Festival (for screenwriters), Sitges actress Vanessa Redgrave, Film Festival (for fantasy films), who at the age of 80 decided Traverse City Film Festival (for to direct her rst movie and

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10 THEWRAP MAY 2017 SPONSORED CONTENT Another Cannes The 5 Most Intriguing Premiere Restauranteur Jean-Bernard (“JB”) Fernandez-Versini will use the fest Films at Cannes as a launching pad for his new, soon-to-be-permanant restaurant

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l Gore’s follow-up to An Inconvenient Truth won’t be the only sequel at Cannes this year. Jean-Bernard Fernandez Versini, the French- Aborn, London-based hospitality and social svengali behind festival hideaway Cosy Box, has a new A-list lair making a premiere on the Croisette: Versini. From their perch 50 meters north and ve stories above the Palais, atop the Five Seas Hotel, “JB” and two-star Michelin chef Akrame Benallal will cloister celebs, buyers, bosses and big shots for a pop-up of the vibe concept that jolts dining with a shot of style. “In France, we have worked a lot on the food side of [dining], but never on the experience side,” he told eWrap from the Grey Goose headquarters in London. “You go to French restaurants for good food, but you don’t go there for something sexy. You go there to ask your future wife to marry you.” With Nicole Kidman and national favorites Isabelle Huppert and Marion Cotillard expected at Versini, JB’s rooop, open-air space will be a bit less bombastic than his infamous bashes he’s had at Cosy Box in Cannes for the past 10 years. “When you are in your 20s you just want to go out and experience a night like it is your last night,” he said. “When you get a bit older, you pace yourself and you want the Versini brand, the culture of food and environment, the music, the design and the service that brings you through the night in a gentle and smooth way.” He cemented his place in the seaside scene by bringing other hospitality icons’ pop-up nightclubs to Cannes 10 years ago: “I would travel all over the world and meet the next big thing in every city and tell them ‘Guys, you have to come to Cannes.’” Back home in London, he’s a regular at pal André Balazs’ Chiltern Firehouse, and he can tell you how they cook a perfect artichoke at an Argentinian haunt in Notting Hill. He’s also been pre-gaming the festival with Bungalow 8’s Amy Sacco and will host peers from L.A during the two-week festival. “e Bootsy Bellows kids are going to come and have a dinner at my place,” he promised. e network of friendlies is not surprising for a guy who spent his formative years in Manhattan. (His backgammon opponent when he was 18? 1Oak founder Scott Sartiano.) But it may be hard to catch The pop-up restaurant Versini the fan of Future and Lupe Fiasco enjoying his will debut during friends’ hospitality at the fest. Nights o are not only the Cannes Film hard to come by, but, he cracked, “I don’t have any.” Festival on the rooop of the Nor will he once he moves from the festival pop- Five Seas Hotel, up to a permanent version of Versini. e restau- just across the rant will open in Mayfair or Central London in the Croisette from W the Palais. coming months. GETTY IMAGES, LEGENDARY ENTERTAINMENT, SUNDANCE CHANNEL, SHOWTIME NETWORKS, MEMENTO FILMS, DISSENT PROJECTS LTD. PROJECTS DISSENT FILMS, MEMENTO NETWORKS, SHOWTIME CHANNEL, SUNDANCE ENTERTAINMENT, LEGENDARY IMAGES, GETTY

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12 THEWRAP MAY 2017 PHOTOGRAPHED BY JULIAN LE BALLISTER years late, for historical reasons. We had a dictator [Francisco Franco] who kidnapped the country and held it hostage edro Almodóvar has had four films in competi- for 40 years.” But if early Almodóvar movies like Dark tion at Cannes, beginning with Volver in 2006 Habits, Law of Desire and Women on the Verge of a Nervous and continuing through Broken Embraces in Breakdown were inspired by the cultural climate of the time, 2009, The Skin I Live In in 2011 and Julieta last they also were a personal response to the cinema he loved. year. The first of those was the only one to win “My brand of narrative is very contemporary,” he said. Pany jury awards, with Almodóvar taking the screenplay prize “To me, Sirk and Hitchcock and a few others are my influ- and the film’s leading women—Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura ences, and they’re unconsciously present in my work. But and others—sharing the best actress award. But apparently I put myself in each scene; I’m being subjective, but at that there are no hard feelings for those three years in which the moment, I’m not thinking of anyone else—not the viewer, Spanish writer-director went home empty-handed, because not Hitchcock, not anyone. I’m thinking about the cam- Almodóvar will be back at Cannes this year not as a competing era and the frame and how the actress is working and the filmmaker, but as the ultimate arbiter of who wins, the presi- dialogue, in terms of it how it’s still fluid and how it might dent of the festival jury. change my plans.” TheWrap’s Alonso Duralde has lauded Almodóvar for “a But it probably doesn’t make sense to think we can figure run of brilliant films that have deftly plumbed the dark side out what Almodóvar might champion on the Cannes jury— of the human soul,” and also called him “one of the wildest, because if there’s one thing we can get from a career that raunchiest and most hilarious directors of our generation.” ranges from Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! to Volver, All About My The 67-year-old director came of age cinematically in the Mother to Bad Education, The Skin I Live In to Julieta, it’s that 1980s in Spain, which in a recent conversation with Duralde the guy keeps an open mind. “The story becomes a living he compared to an earlier decade in the United States. object, and it makes you tell it in the best way possible,” he “The ’80s in Spain were so significant: the democracy, the told Duralde. “I put a lot of faith in the script—but if you’re explosion of freedom, prosperity, drugs,” he said. “Everything honest, and you hear it, the story tells you what’s the best way that happened in the 1960s everywhere else came to us 20 for it to be expressed.” —STEVE POND

THE OTHER EIGHT: Almodóvar’s fellow jurors

Fan Bingbing, Chinese actress Maren Ade German Paolo Sorrentino, The first Chinese juror since writer-director Italian writer-director Jia Zhangke in 2014, she was Her 2016 lm Toni Of his seven feature lms, the last once named the Cannes Film Erdmann was the six in a row have been in the main Festival’s “Best Dressed Ever” sensation of Cannes, competition at Cannes, with 2008’s by E! Online. breaking records for Il Divo winning the Jury Prize. critical raves and going Will Smith, American actor on to land an Oscar Park Chan-wook, His movies have grossed more nomination—but last South Korean writer-director than $7.5 billion, and none of year’s jury didn’t agree, 2004 Cannes jury president Quentin them have ever been shown in and gave it no awards. Tarantino reportedly pushed hard competition at Cannes. for Park’s Oldboy to win the Palme Jessica Chastain d’Or that year, but Fahrenheit 9/11 Gabriel Yared American actress prevailed. French-Lebanese composer She first came to Cannes The Oscar-winning composer in 2011 with two films: Agnès Jaoui, French actress, wrote his rst lm score for The Tree of Life won the screenwriter, director and singer Jean-Luc Godard’s Every Man Palme d’Or and Ta ke She won Cannes’ 2004 screenplay for Himself, which premiered at Shelter won the Critics’ award, with the competition including

GETTY IMAGES GETTY Cannes in 1980. Week prize. fellow jurors Sorrentino and Park.

70TH FESTIVAL DE CANNES 13 FILM TITLE: BAYWATCH DATE: May 2, 2017 12:23 PM PLACEMENT: DOMESTIC REVISION: 01 DESCRIPTION: THE WRAP 2 PAGE SPREAD OPTION: 01 ART NAME: SUMMER/BRODY/MITCH/CJ/STEPHANIE COMP: 2346 FLIGHT DATE: TBD SIZE: BLEED: 502.85 mm W x 352.552 mm H TRIM: 490 mm W x 340 mm H LIVE: 464.6 mm W x 314.6 mm H LEGAL: LEGAL BUGS (NO BILLING PER CREATIVE) FILM TITLE: BAYWATCH DATE: May 2, 2017 12:23 PM PLACEMENT: DOMESTIC REVISION: 01 DESCRIPTION: THE WRAP 2 PAGE SPREAD OPTION: 01 ART NAME: SUMMER/BRODY/MITCH/CJ/STEPHANIE COMP: 2346 FLIGHT DATE: TBD SIZE: BLEED: 502.85 mm W x 352.552 mm H TRIM: 490 mm W x 340 mm H LIVE: 464.6 mm W x 314.6 mm H LEGAL: LEGAL BUGS (NO BILLING PER CREATIVE) Tilda Swinton was photographed for TheWrap by Nicolas Guerin at L’Hotel in Paris on April 27, 2017

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ANOTHER GIRL, ANOTHER PLANET Tilda Swinton is part Barbie doll, part cult priestess in Bong Joon Ho’s Okja

BY STEVE POND PHOTOGRAPHED BY NICOLAS GUERIN

Like David Bowie and precious few others, she barely seems of this world. Tilda Swinton, an actress, artist, model and provocateur of Anglo- Scots descent but otherworldly mien, seems to be a visitor from a more rar- efied and infinitely more interesting realm. She’s severe but open-hearted, impossibly striking, unbound by style or gender—it’s not for nothing that her breakthrough role came in Orlando, where she played a young noble- man who becomes a woman halfway through the film and announces, “no difference at all,” or that her role in Snowpiercer was originally written for a man. Snowpiercer was directed by Korean auteur Bong Joon Ho, with whom Swinton has reteamed on Okja, which is part children’s story about the friendship between a young girl and a big, genetically engineered creature, and part cautionary tale of capitalism run amok. It can’t be easily classified—but then, neither can Swinton, who plays the scion of a wealthy family who is taking over its multinational corporation, and trying to put a happy face on its dark dealings. Swinton stars opposite Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Lily Collins and young Korean actress An Seo Hyun, and also serves as executive producer on the project. It will mark the sixth film of hers that has gone to Cannes, after Aria, Broken Flowers, The Man From London, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Moonrise Kingdom and Only Lovers Left Alive. Most have come in the last decade of a 31-year career that began with a string of experimental films from Derek Jarman and has included only sporadic nods to the mainstream, among them The Chronicles of Narnia, Michael Clayton (for which she won an Oscar) and Doctor Strange. A Photos courtesy of Netflix of courtesy Photos

Above, Swinton’s on the ﬁlm—and I were particularly invested in [the character, Lucy Mirando, puts on her best creature] Okja retaining the inspiration in her behav- happy face to help sell ior and movement of one of our beloved Springer her family business’ spaniels, Rosy, who was an early muse for Director “morally repugnant initiatives”; right, Bong when he was conceiving the project. We had Swinton on the set with many highly involved conversations over Skype and director Bong Joon Ho continents about the exact rubberiness of Rosy’s jowls, etc.

How would you describe your character? How did you rst hear about the idea of Okja? Lucy Mirando is heir to a rotten great fortune built on TILDA SWINTON On our way to the airport after the pre- the corrupt and morally repugnant initiatives carried miere of Snowpiercer in Seoul, Director Bong showed out by her father. The Mirando Corporation is, as she me a small early drawing he had made himself of what describes it herself behind closed doors, “the most looked like a strange sort of hippo and a girl. And told hated agrochemical company on the planet.” Driven me a story about devoted love and heinous capitalistic by a combination of impassioned narcissism and a deception. competitive determination to do things differently, she is dedicated to fashioning a gleaming public image, Why did the idea appeal to you? to rebooting Mirando’s reputation in the shape of an Because it promised so much of what we have always eco-conscious and world-saving beacon of positivity. talked about adoring, especially in the work of the She will stop at nothing, certainly not the truth, in the great Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki: a gallant pursuit of this aim: She is a liar, from start to finish. young girl, a hymn to nature, ominous and ridiculous However, Lucy is not a great actress, has precious antagonists, action across continents. little natural charisma and needs to force the shtick to a somewhat painful degree. The spotlight is not her As a producer on the lm, were there certain areas in natural habitat and the sense of disconnect is palpable. which your input was focused? For a long time, the only people who knew about this What were the keys to creating the look of the character? project were the four of us original producers: Director She needed to be a construct, very painstakingly Bong, Dooho Choi, Sandro Kopp and me. It was, as it planned to be everything that— particularly—dom- usually is in such circumstances, a task involved with inant American culture loves to be ruled by: flaxen, keeping true to that authentic spark from the earliest straight-haired, straight-toothed, vivacious, childlike days—and protecting the freedoms needed to make in energy. We dressed her in her big press conference something truly unique and untried. as part spa manager, part Barbie dollybird, part cult Sandro—who is also one of the creature designers priestess. We had a plethora of influences.

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COVER Stream Dreams STORY Netix and Amazon have become major players on the Croisette

BY MATT DONNELLY * ILLUSTRATED BY BRIAN TAYLOR

annes bowed to the winds has muscled onto the Croisette this is shipping over Todd Haynes’ turn allows for many French and of change with typically year with two significant films. Wonderstruck, which reunites foreign movies selected at Cannes French flair on April 13, The first is Bong Joon Ho’s Okja, the director with Julianne Moore to get made.” when general delegate starring Tilda Swinton and Jake in a tale about two deaf children The FNCF said it was not Thierry Frémaux explained Gyllenhaal. The Snowpiercer director living in different time periods in questioning the festival’s taste Cwhy the storied and tradi- is beloved by talent, including his New York; and Lynne Ramsay’s (quelle horreur) but were con- tion-bound festival had admitted returning villain Swinton, and this grim drama You Were Never Really testing programmers’ choices so many films from the decidedly emotional action thriller looks like Here, in which Joaquin Phoenix “without consulting us.” In the modern streaming services Netflix his most commercially appealing plays a war vet investigating a sex aftermath of these complaints and Amazon Studios. “I won’t play work to date. trafficking ring. Netflix agreed to explore day- the innocent,” he told a crowded The other film is The Netflix and Amazon will also and-date release options (which room of journalist in Paris. “There Meyerowitz Stories (New and be traveling with more than went over like a lead balloon in are two new operators.” Selected), from writer-director movies lining their pockets— the U.S.) for its festival titles. Indeed, Netflix and Amazon Noah Baumbach in what is his don’t forget these companies In an exclusive sit-down Studios attend the 70th year of first film at Cannes. He unites were two of the biggest buyers with TheWrap prior to the FNCF the festival in positions of real a considerable cast of funny at this year’s Sundance Film controversy, Netflix Chief Content strength: The deep-pocketed people in Ben Stiller, Adam Festival, with Amazon spending a Officer Ted Sarandos addressed former gets a prestige bump to Sandler, Emma Thompson, Dustin fest-high $12 million for The Big complaints from the theatrical Sick a year after it had bagged establishment. “We’re all in the Manchester by the Sea for $10 consumer-satisfaction business,” million, and Netflix landing nine he said. “If you really believe We’re in the consumer- films, the most of any studio in that people would abandon movie Park City. (The haul included The theaters if day-and-date releas- Incredible Jessica James, ing was going on, that doesn’t satisfaction business.” To the Bone, Berlin Syndrome and say much for that industry. Casting JonBenet.) “I have more faith in them than —Ted Sarandos, Net ix So everyone will have a nice they do,” he added. strut down the Croisette and As a buyer, Sarandos is confi- complement its considerable Hoffman, Candice Bergen and then happily party on their dent that a subscription service global subscriber base, while the Homeland star Elizabeth Marvel. yachts, right? model like his own juggernaut latter is back in numbers after its Both titles are in contention for Not if you’re a group of angry “is a better way to monetize historic appearance last year. the Palme d’Or, a first for the French movie theater owners, most movies. Not all movies, but The stream, it would seem, has company that won its first Oscar incredulous that an upstart most movies.” finally met the French Riviera. in February for the documentary streaming service would get a Sarandos was quick to add a “Amazon and Netflix are new short The White Helmets. prestigious booking at Cannes significant point about why it’s a for filmmakers, producers and for Amazon Studios has fared but have no obligation to release good idea for filmmakers to make the festivals,” Frémaux said at the better than Netflix in streaming’s the picture on movie screens. a deal with Netflix. “Nobody April press conference announcing brief history of disrupting Cannes. “Netflix has been avoiding French has ever lost money making a the Cannes lineup. “The festival is In 2016, Jeff Bezos’ fledgling regulation and fiscal obligations,” movie for Netflix,” he insisted. a laboratory.” And as usual for a division opened the festival with said a group representing the- “Ever. Every movie we make is film festival these days, the two the Woody Allen acquisition Café aters, the French National Cinema profitable.” streaming giants are major players Society, and sent four other Federation. “These rules allow for If Cannes truly is a laborato- in that laboratory. While it wasn’t films into competition. This year, the financing of our strong film ry, we’d call that experiment a able to get an invite last year, Netflix Amazon Studios head Roy Price industry and ecosystem which in success. W

70TH FESTIVAL DE CANNES 19 COVER STORY Playing a woman who inherits wealth and power, did you How do you nd freedom as a performer within a draw at all from the scions of wealthy families who are vision as meticulous as Bong Joon Ho’s? currently coming to power? Any touch of Ivanka or the One of the most joyous things about working with Trump boys in this? Director Bong is that he has the ﬁlm, once we start When we shot in New York last summer, I stood shooting, pretty well mapped out in his head, in terms

Below, Swinton and watching the Republican convention on the television of its cut, its rhythm, its texture. But he is absolutely Tom HIddleston at a in our lunch break dressed as Lucy, watching a different up for and enthusiastic about dreaming up the detail 2013 Cannes photo call daughter of a different dubious dynasty addressing, with us all. This precision means, strangely enough, a for Only Lovers Le Alive; bottom, Swinton (far from a high podium, a big crowd with glossy blond great feeling of relief for his comrades. Between this le) dines with director hair, expensive orthodontics and modeling her Barbie- and that exact delineation of space and time, he invites Ken Russell and his wife perfect modest pink dress (concurrently on sale online). playfulness and an energy that can veer from natural Vivien Jolly on her rst trip to Cannes in 1987. Chicken? Egg? to liberated to pretty wild. His amusement is the key factor, the eye of the needle. And his hand is always there to steer the ship.

There’s an old saying that you shouldn’t work with children or animals, both of which gure prominently in this lm. As usual, those old sayings should be taken with massive doses of salt. I suspect this old chestnut evolved because working with unselfconscious, fully sentient beings tends to show up any pomp or posturing anybody else is likely to bring with them. For the cast and crew of Okja, [child actress] An Seo Hyun and Okja were the co-stars of all our dreams, in every sense.

What were the biggest challenges, and also the biggest pleasures, for you in making the lm? The pleasure of making work with close friends, especially when what you are making is something you have labored over together from its very conception, is hard to beat. One of my dearest delights is introducing new playmates to each other: Kevin Thompson, the great production designer whom I first met on Michael Clayton, joined an already established band that included Catherine George, the brilliant costume designer from We Need To Talk About Kevin and Snowpiercer. Further, we had the great good fortune to find staunch fellow travellers in Plan B, which made it possible for us to make this highly ambitious film— three-country shoot (Korea, New York City, Vancouver), highly sophisticated visual effects, etc.—in such a relatively graceful way. And the adventure of stepping out with Netflix, with all their support and enthusiasm for this project, has been a great experience.

You’ve been to Cannes several times in the past. Do you have any speci c memories that stand out? The first time I went to Cannes was in something like 1987 with Derek Jarman and a compilation film called Aria, which we had made a section of—an experiment in blowing up Super 8 to 35mm, which helped us to make The Last of England later on. We spent five days in a gang including Ken Russell, Nic Roeg and Robert The lm has been described, by its director and others, as Altman, amongst other giants. There was a great deal being about the relationship between humans and animals, of champagne. but also as a story about capitalism. What do you see as the I remember walking along the Croisette behind key themes in this story? John Hurt and hearing everyone who passed him Maybe, moral integrity? The unvarnished devotion murmuring as they passed me, “l’homme l’elephant!,” between Okja and [the young girl] Mija, who cannot but “l’homme l’elephant!” Robert Altman taught me to play tell the truth, shines out in the face of the adult humans blackjack in the Casino. None of us had seen the film they encounter who build their relationship to the before the screening, which was the final night. Derek world and each other through lies, insincerity and the was refused entry into the Palais for not wearing a bow cheating indirectness of subterfuge. I suggest that every tie. We borrowed one from a waiter. new month that we live through, this film will come to When we all saw the film, none of us liked it at all, shed new light on the web of the world we are living in, but we had spent a magical school outing together, made and our ways of treating each other, and our relation- friends for life and I doubt any of us ever forgot it. W

ship to accountability, sincerity and mutual respect. IMAGES GETTY

20 THEWRAP MAY 2017 Every new month we live, this ﬁlm will shed new light on the web of the world we are living in.” GETTY IMAGES GETTY Taylor Sheridan

WIND RIVER Un Certain Regard

Photographed by Emerson Miller in Park City, Utah

April 26, 2017 THE CANNES DIRECTORS PORTFOLIO At a true directors’ ﬁlm festival, here are 14 of the men and women whose work will shine

t’s the thing you always dream of, to one time be in Cannes,” director Maren Ade told TheWrap at last year’s festival. “When you’re standing in the rain making a lm in your sweaty T-shirt, and you didn’t get the shot, you walk home thinking, ‘I’ll never be in Cannes.’ But then maybe you shoot a scene that you think is good, and you start ‘Ithinking, ‘Well, maybe…’” Ade got in last year with Toni Erdmann, and she’s back this year as a member of the jury to look at the work of other directors whose Cannes dreams are now a reality. For our fourth annual Cannes Directors Portfolio, TheWrap caught up with a cross-section of those lm- makers. More than a dozen directors are included, shot in ve countries and representing ve dierent programs in the Cannes lineup. And we’re just scratching the surface of a festival that has more than 60 feature-lm directors in the ocial selection and another two dozen in the Directors’ Fortnight and International Critics’ Week sidebars. This may be old hat to some of them (Todd Haynes, Michel Hazanavicius, Yorgos Lanthi- mos, Andrey Zvyagintsev and Bong Joon Ho have all been here in the past couple of years), but you’ll never convince us that they don’t still thrill at walking up the red-carpeted stairs that lead into the Palais des Festivals. —STEVE POND Andrey Zvyagintsev

LOVELESS Main Competition

Photographed by Anna Matveeva in Moscow

April 20, 2017

24 THEWRAP MAY 2017 Sean Baker

THE FLORIDA PROJECT Directors’ Fortnight

Photographed with actress Bria Vinaite and Bunsen by Jayne Wexler in New York City

April 30, 2017

Noah Baumbach

THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES Main Competition

Photographed by Greta Gerwig in New York City

April 30, 2017

70TH FESTIVAL DE CANNES 25 Bong Joon Ho

OKJA Main Competition

Photographed by Julian Le Ballister in Los Angeles

April 21, 2017

26 THEWRAP MAY 2017 Todd Haynes

WONDERSTRUCK Main Competition

Photographed by Natalie Behring in Portland, Oregon

April 26, 2017

70TH FESTIVAL DE CANNES 27 Jon Shenk & Bonni Cohen

AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER Special Screenings

Photographed by Derek Yarra in San Francisco

April 26, 2017

28 THEWRAP MAY 2017 John Cameron Mitchell

HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES Out of Competition

Photographed by Megan Mack in New York City

April 24, 2017

70TH FESTIVAL DE CANNES 29 Josh & Benny Safdie

GOOD TIME Main Competition

Photographed by Shayan Asgharnia in New York City

April 24, 2017

30 THEWRAP MAY 2017 Yorgos Lanthimos

THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER Main Competition

Photographed by Atsushi Nishijima in London

April 20, 2017

Eugene Jarecki

PROMISED LAND Special Screenings

Photographed by Georgina Hill in Berlin

April 27, 2017

70TH FESTIVAL DE CANNES 31 Michel Hazanavicius

REDOUBTABLE Main Competition

Photographed by Julien Lienard in Paris

April 27, 2017

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will scour Cannes for movies to book, IMAGES GETTY but 10 festivals will also use the Cannes market to showcase their own movies, often as works in progress. Market Report In its fifth year, the “Goes to Cannes” program will include work from the Annecy, Hong Kong, Los Cabos, Frontières, Guadalajara, Vilnius, Dubai, Thessaloniki, Panama and New Horizons Polish Days festivals.

Virtual Reality With VR in the official selection for the first time, it makes sense that the China market’s innovation hub, NEXT, will What will the Asian powerhouse bring to spotlight the new technology. NEXT will focus on both sides of the VR (and take from) Cannes? equation, displaying new technology as well as virtual-reality films. BY MATT PRESSBERG

Women in Film inseltown has a long tradition who has worked on numerous deals involving With 23 female directors represented of extracting healthy sums of money Chinese film companies, told TheWrap. “They’re in the official selection and feature T from flashy foreign financiers who can’t still able to do presales of content,” Moore said. “I sidebars, the Marché du Film will stay away from the world’s most glamorous don’t expect it to be a change as far as purchase also see an increasing number of industry. Most recently, much of that cash has of content for Chinese distributors.” women in key roles. That includes not come from China. But those distributors might have a tougher only longtime festivalgoers like the But after a two-year run in which seem- time getting deals done—or, at least, done with Highland Film Group’s Arianne Fraser ingly every major and minor studio inked a terms as favorable as they’ve obtained in recent and Delphine Perrier and Radiant coproduction deal with Chinese financial part- years—according to John Burke, a partner at Films International’s Mimi Steinbauer, ners and Chinese companies agreed to a series of Akin Gump who leads the firm’s entertainment but newer players like Erika Olde from increasingly eye-popping acquisitions, including group. “I can imagine that the restrictions might Black Bicycle Entertainment, who Dalian Wanda Group’s $3.5 billion purchase of disadvantage Chinese distributors looking to buy started a women’s studies program Legendary Entertainment in 2016, the firehose Chinese rights,” Burke told TheWrap. “If you’re at the Ghetto Film School and is now of Middle Kingdom funding abruptly dried up. a seller, you’re going to be concerned with their producing and financing three films The Chinese government’s State Council institut- ability to access U.S. dollars to make payments.” with female directors. There’s even a ed strict capital controls limiting Chinese invest- Burke said that individual film deals aren’t woman atop the Chinese production ment in overseas companies; along with other subject to the same restrictions, because and distribution company Bliss Media, tightened regulations, the restrictions killed they are investments in projects rather than Wei Han. off several major cross-border deals, including companies. But the fact that cross-border Dalian Wanda Group’s planned $1 billion acquisi- China-Hollywood deals haven’t been consum- Doc Around the Clock tion of Dick Clark Productions. mated in months could force Chinese buyers The Doc Corner, with its docs-only Furthermore, a combination of a into less favorable terms as they try to acquire screening room and online video disappointing slate of Chinese films and the movies from sellers that may not be convinced library, is already one of the most reduction of generous online-ticketing subsidies about their ability to deliver on the deal. bustling areas of the market. In this left the country’s box office essentially flat last “To protect against uncertainty, sellers may increasingly politicized and fraught year after surging nearly 50 percent in 2015. All require [Chinese buyers] to pay up front or age, Tuesday, May 23 will be the of that could loom over Cannes, where plenty of back it up with a letter of credit payable when market’s second annual Doc Day, with heavy hitters on the harbor’s mega-yachts are the picture gets delivered,” Burke said. a full program devoted to nonfiction likely to be talking about what’s happening in Kylin Pictures, a China-based firm that was filmmaking: panels, keynotes and a waters much further east. a co-financier on Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge, day-ending Doc Lovers Mixer at the However, even though Chinese acquisitions is going to Cannes as a seller this year. The pro- Plage des Palmes. —SP have ground to a halt, sales of rights to individual duction company is looking to sell international movies shouldn’t be affected much, Schuyler rights to action-adventure fantasy The King’s Moore, a partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan Daughter through its international distribution

34 THEWRAP MAY 2017 Le to right, the Chinese premiere Jack Reacher: Never Go Back; Fan Bingbing, who stars in this Celebrating our upcoming productions year’s market title The King’s Daughter ZOE To be directed by Drake Doremus Starring: Ewan McGregor partner Good Universe, Kylin CEO Leo Shi Young told TheWrap. While Young will be on Léa Seydoux the other side of the table, he said he expects Theo James there will still be plenty of Chinese buyers Christina Aguilera heading to Cannes looking for good films to buy Shooting May 2017 to help feed the country’s constantly expanding appetite for movies, as it continues to build movie theaters by the dozen. And just as Amazon and Netflix have SERENITY changed the landscape at Sundance, China’s To be directed by Steven Knight burgeoning streaming services, including Baidu’s iQiyi and Alibaba’s Youku Tudou, could Starring: also step up their dealmaking. They have the Matthew McConaughey added advantage of less regulatory scrutiny than theatrical releases, which must be cleared Anne Hathaway by the country’s strict censors, who often Jason Clarke require substantial edits. “Online they also have Uma Thurman a lot of markets, so they can sell to those,” Young said. “For those channels, the regulations or Djimon Hounsou censorship will probably be easier and looser.” Shooting July 2017 China’s regulators protect local fare through a quota system and blackout period, but Chinese films still haven’t really registered beyond the country’s borders, even though some of them RICHARD SAYS GOODBYE have reeled in hundreds of millions of dollars To be directed by Wayne Roberts at home. But for the second year in a row, no Starring: Chinese films were announced as part of the Johnny Depp festival’s official selection. However, there is a second annual China Co-Production Day, Shooting July 2017 Bridging the Dragon, which will take place May 19 as part of the Cannes film market, the Marché du Film, which runs concurrent with JACKPOT the film festival. And the country’s moviegoing audience To be directed by Will Gluck isn’t satisfied with a homegrown diet alone, Starring: Young said, which is why distributors come Mila Kunis to Cannes looking to buy. “The Chinese film Shooting October 2017 market is expanding a lot—they need content,” he said. “They need good films.” At the beginning of last year, it seemed like only a matter of time until deep-pocketed Chinese buyers dominated the film industry. But it wouldn’t be Hollywood without a twist. How will it play out at Cannes? Stay tuned. “Last year, as crowded as it was, it seemed like the Chinese were overrunning Cannes,” Burke said. “It will be interesting to see if that changes when we get there this year.” W

(credits not contractual) CANNES’ BACK PAGES / Fancy Paneling The Grandest of Juries A few glimpses of the arguments, tensions, dealmaking and occasional screaming matches that come from serving jury dury on the Croisette

ne of director Robert Altman’s most ardent lead actresses share the best-actress award, contentious, as a couple of panelists—among champions was critic Pauline Kael, so the making it the only film to win more than them Canadian actress-director Sarah Ofilmmaker was no doubt happy to find one prize. The losing jurors, he said, “were Polley—fought to keep the American con- her on the jury when he took his 1977 film satisfied. They hadn’t won, but it was clear the tenders, which included the Coen brothers’ 3 Women to the festival. But the Palme d’Or movie was considered something special.” No Country for Old Men and David Fincher’s went to Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Padre Zodiac, from winning anything. In the end, Padrone instead, with Ettore Scola’s A Special n 1996, jury president Francis Ford Coppola American artist/director Julian Schnabel did Day reportedly also in the running. The per- reportedly hated David Cronenberg’s Crash, win the best-director prize for The Diving Bell ceived snub at the hands of his old supporter Iwhich won a special jury prize. When he and the Butterfly, a film entirely in French. caused Altman (who’d won the Palme in 1970 presented the award at the closing ceremony, for M*A*S*H) to scream obscenities at Kael Coppola took the unusual step of pointing out he famously outspoken (and occasionally when he ran into her in the Nice airport as that the award was not unanimous and that bratty) Canadian director Xavier Dolan has they were both leaving town. some jurors “did abstain very passionately.” Tbeen competing at Cannes since he was That rather graceless disclaimer didn’t sit a teenager, so it’s natural that the festival creenwriter and novelist William Goldman well with Coppola’s fellow juror (and Cronen- asked him to serve on the jury two years devoted an entire book, Hype and Glory, to berg’s fellow Canadian) Atom Egoyan, who ago. But Dolan was apparently not the most Sthe year in which he served as a Cannes called it “an odd thing to do.” congenial panelist, getting on some of his juror and a judge at the Miss America pageant. fellow jurors’ nerves as he lobbied feverishly The jury decision, he revealed, n 2007, British director Stephen Frears —and perhaps rudely—for his favorites and came only after some old-fashioned was the president of a jury that, for the against the likes of Todd Haynes’ subdued horse-trading: Bille August’s Pelle the Conquer- Ionly time since 1968, did not include any love story Carol. At the jury press conference or won over Chris Menges’ A World Apart in a Americans. They gave the Palme d’Or to the that followed the awards ceremony, Dolan 6-4 vote, but jury president Ettore Scola only Romanian drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and said, “I somehow feel like a better person.” got the World Apart supporters to stop arguing 2 Days, and few found reason to quibble Sitting nearby, jury co-president Ethan Coen when he offered to not only give that film the with that selection. But one member of the audibly muttered, “You’re not.” Grand Jury Prize (second prize), but also let its panel told TheWrap that deliberations were —STEVE POND

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