Saw this last year's Palme d'Or just before the Cannes Film Festival opened. It doesn't feel much different from watching previous editions: the film is good, but not exciting enough.
Take a look at the Palme d'Or in recent years:
The 58th (2005) Palme d'Or "Children" (Belgium, Jean-Pierre Darnay, Luc Darnay)
The 59th (2006) Palme d'Or Award "The Wind Blows the Rice Waves" (UK, Ken Roach)
60th (2007) Palme d'Or "Three Weeks and Two Days in April" (Romania, Christian Mongi)
61st (2008 ) Year) Palme d'Or "High School Classroom" (also translated "Between the Walls") (France, Lauren Candit)
"The Wind Blows the Rice Waves" is too mediocre, even if the Palme d'Or in 2006 is vacant, no matter what. The other three have surprisingly many common features:
- Low cost, small production.
- Start small, in the form of semi-documentary, reflect the current social problems through the bottom people.
- A reaction to the baroque time treatment of previous art films, time returns to a linear flow, fitting reality more rigidly (bluntly).
- Cancel color processing.
- Cancel the soundtrack.
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and so on. The taste of Palme d'Or is evident. What about this year? The taste should also be changed.
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