The closing ceremony brought about a sigh of ‘I knew it’ disappointment as this year’s quasi-unanimous favourite “Toni Erdmann” failed to pick up a single award, while “I, Daniel Blake”, a mawkish feel-bad movie, so utterly predictable and artistically vapid, so tedious that it is hard to hate but is instead best watched as a bland medicine, took home the top prize. The 2016 jury seems to have inherited their forerunner’s perverse pleasure in rewarding a film nobody cared for much. Well done on managing to outrage the minuscule segment of humanity that gives a rat’s tail about Cannes palmarès.
The subaltern at Cannes (i.e. the press) do get the need to the Jury to leave their stamp of originality, and though they supposed to not read any reactions on the films in competition, they nonetheless seem to take a childishly perverse pride in stumping ‘predictions’. By now,...
The subaltern at Cannes (i.e. the press) do get the need to the Jury to leave their stamp of originality, and though they supposed to not read any reactions on the films in competition, they nonetheless seem to take a childishly perverse pride in stumping ‘predictions’. By now,...
- 5/26/2016
- by Zornitsa Staneva
- SoundOnSight
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