Cannes Film Festival 2022 Day 11

Competition

BROKER (LES BONNES ÉTOILES) directed by KORE-EDA HIROKAZU

Kore-eda’s work, including the Palme-winning Shoplifters (2018) is rightly revered. But he has always had a sweet tooth for whimsy and sentimentality, says The Guardian.

CLOSE directed by LUKAS DHONT

Close presents a profoundly felt portrait of two inseparable friends, until a manipulative midway twist shatters the spell – it’s about adolescent friendship and responsibility, revolving around two 13-year-old boys (Gustave De Waele and Eden Dambrine) whose intense bond is tested when they start secondary school.

However, as audiences at Cannes discovered with shock, Dhont’s layered, exquisitely shot work, which covers a whole year of changing seasons, is about so much more: betrayal, shame, denial, love and eventually healing and growth.

“I was much more aware of myself, and I knew a lot of people looked at me,” Dhont explained at the Cannes press conference, “I wanted to do something with the same intensity and passion as Girl.”

One of the strongest films to premiere in this year’s Competition, Close has huge potential for awards across the board, says Todd McCarthy.

SHOWING UP directed by KELLY REICHARDT

Michelle Williams stars in Kelly Reichardt’s first Cannes Competition entry, a wry comedy about a solitary sculptor – a beautifully crafted, modest gem.

Photographed in the soft, indie-stonewashed colours that are part of this director’s signature, subtlety and reticence are the keynotes of this diverting if downbeat new picture, says The Guardian.

UN PETIT FRÈRE (MOTHER AND SON) directed by LÉONOR SERRAILLE

Told over twenty years, a delicate but wrenching film about the immigrant experience – a tough single mother (Annabelle Lengronne) and two vulnerable sons settling (or not) in France from Côte d’Ivoire.

PREMIÈRE

LE PUPILLE (LES ELEVES) directed by ALICE ROHRWACHER

37-minute short The Pupils (the Italian title is Le Pupille) is a coming-of-age fable centred around innocence, greed and fantasy that follows rebellious little girls at a Catholic boarding school in the run-up to Christmas during an imaginary wartime.

MASCARADE (MASQUERADE) directed by NICOLAS BEDOS

UN CERTAIN REGARD

CLOSING CEREMONY and AWARDS

Focused on arthouse, artistically daring films, the 2022 Un Certain Regard Competition has included 20 feature films – seven of which are first features also competing for the Caméra d’or. The opening film was Mathieu Vadepied’s Father and Soldier.

Chaired by actress-director-producer Valeria Golino, the Jury included director Debra Granik, actress Joanna Kulig, actor-singer Benjamin Biolay and actor-producer Edgar Ramírez.

Un Certain Regard Prize

THE WORST ONES directed by LISE AKOKA & Romane GUERET

The Worst Ones is a drama about a film within a film that sees a crew hit a working class French town. Deadline’s review said it hit “with thought-provoking and sometimes darkly funny results.”

Jury Prize

JOYLAND directed by Saim SADIQ

Joyland centers on a married man who falls for a trans woman. Deadline called it an “atmospheric” title that “explores a whole family, presenting a picture of a clan torn between modernity and tradition in contemporary Lahore.”

Best Director Prize

Alexandru BELC for METRONOM

Best Performance Prize (jointly awarded)

Vicky KRIEPS in CORSAGE

Adam BESSA in HARKA

Best Screenplay Prize

MEDITERRANEAN FEVER directed by Maha HAJ

« Coup de cœur » Prize

RODÉO directed by Lola QUIVORON

Quinzaine des Réalisateurs

L’ENVOL (SCARLET) directed by PIETRO MARCELLO

GOD’S CREATURES directed by SAELA DAVIS & ANNA ROSE HOLMER

SHORTS PROGRAMME 2 (HAPPY NEW YEAR, JIM / MARIA SCHNEIDER, 1983 / BEBEN / JITTERBUG / DES JEUNES FILLES ENTERRENT LEUR VIE)

UN BEAU MATIN (ONE FINE MORNING) directed by MIA HANSEN-LØVE

REVOIR PARIS (PARIS MEMORIES) directed by ALICE WINOCOUR

Virginie Efira (Benedetta) stars in this latest drama from French director Alice Winocour (Proxima), about a woman who survives a deadly terrorist attack in the heart of Paris

MEN directed by ALEX GARLAND