With the prizes given out, the bags packed and the hangovers kicking in, the 70th Cannes Film Festival has drawn to a close.
This year’s top prize went to surprise winner The Square, a Swedish film about the sometimes bonkers art world and how we can best help others.
Cannes has seen dozens of film premieres and parties, and red carpet appearances from the likes of Rihanna, Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner.
Here are some of the highlights and talking points from the past 12 days.
It can get emotional
The lack of sleep, the pressure, the importance of the occasion – who can blame festivalgoers for showing a bit of emotion?
There wasn’t a dry eye in the house during the press conference for Wonderstruck when the child actors said how much they’d learned from their adult co-stars – and vice versa. There may have been a few tears wiped away during the film’s premiere itself too.
Then there was the reaction to Dustin Hoffman‘s performance in Noah Baumbach‘s The Meyerowitz Stories, which left both the actor and director weeping – and a fair proportion of the audience too. Some are tipping Hoffman for Oscars success for the role as a cantankerous patriarch at the centre of a dysfunctional New York family.
Kirsten Dunst burst into tears on the red carpet for the premiere of The Beguiled – but the smiling reaction of director Sofia Coppola and Elle Fanning, who also appears in the Civil War-era drama, shows they were tears of happiness.
There was laughter as well as tears
Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionNoah Baumbach, Emma Thompson and Ben Stiller had fun in Cannes
Will Smith provided the laughs at the jury press conference on the opening day of Cannes, heckling the audience, whooping with delight and even making a Fresh Prince of Bel Air reference.
Then Emma Thompson was also in a great mood when promoting The Meyerowitz Stories – and was later seen laughing and dancing, high heels in her hand, at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association party for the International Rescue Committee.
And director Yorgos Lanthimos told the cast of his dark, intense thriller The Killing of the Sacred Deer it was a comedy. But Colin Farrell laughed at this suggestion, saying Lanthimos, the man behind surreal romantic drama The Lobster, is “messed up”.
And now for the unofficial awards…
Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionThe Square actor Terry Notary reprised his performance as an ape-man on the red carpet, watched by co-stars including Elisabeth Moss and Dominic West
Most shocking scene: When performance art being staged for paying guests’ entertainment at a gala dinner pushes the boundaries of acceptable behaviour in The Square, as a man playing an ape makes things at first awkward and then horrifying
Most incongruous use of a song in a film: When the strains of Annie’s Song are heard as a giant pig runs amok in a shopping centre in Okja, all you can do is laugh
Best/most creepy use of social media: The opening scenes to Michael Haneke’s Happy End, in which an unseen character documents a woman’s bedtime routine on a mobile phone – and later in the film, when the same phone records the demise of a hamster
Most honest confession: Ben Stiller admitting he didn’t know how to pronounce The Meyerowitz Stories either
Most unlikely collaboration: Elisabeth Moss and Gwendoline Christie joking as they chatted before an interview that they’d like to develop a shoe range – and then they insisted holding hands throughout
The ‘It Should Have Won The Palme d’Or’ prize: A tie between The Florida Project, starring Willem Dafoe, and Wind River, with Jeremy Renner and Elisabeth Olsen, both of which had critics scratching their heads as to why they weren’t in the official competition.
People will do anything to get into screenin
Film fans, sometimes in tuxedos, holding signs asking for tickets for the day’s films is a common sight along the Croisette, Cannes’ main boulevard.
Some got lucky – if someone had a spare ticket, it was preferable to give it away rather than get black-marked for the invitation not being taken up. Bonus points for those who at least made an effort with their appearance or made an amusing sign.
It’s a 24-7 festival
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Starting queuing for an 8.30am screening at 7.30am, not coming out of a 10pm screening until half past midnight… and then there are the beachfront parties that make partying seem like an Olympic sport, with one festivalgoer boasting she was planning to go to eight in one night.
Η ελληνική αποστολή είχε στόχο να κατακτήσει την κορυφή και τελικά την Δευτέρα 22 Μαΐου 2017 ανέβηκε στο Έβερεστ με επιτυχία. Μετά από δεκατρία χρόνια από την τελευταία ελληνική αποστολή, η ομάδα με αρχηγό τον Αντώνη Συκάρη, έναν από τους εμπειρότερους ορειβάτες και τον Μάικ Ευμορφίδη συνιδρυτή & Διευθύνοντα Σύμβουλο της COCO-MAT, μέλη του Συνδέσμου Ελλήνων Ορειβατών Αθήνας, τοποθέτησαν την ελληνική σημαία στην υψηλότερη κορυφή του κόσμου. Η αποστολή της ομάδας ξεκίνησε στις […]
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