While tens of thousands of people protested against France’s new gay marriage law in central Paris, the three hour lesbian drama Blue is the Warmest Colour took the Palme d’Or at the 66th Cannes Film Festival.
Weird? Coincidence? Well, maybe just passionate film-making against reality…
But one thing is for sure – Abdellatif Kechiche‘s La vie d’Adele won over Joel and Ethan Coen‘s folk music comedy Inside Llewyn Davis, which took home the Grand Prix, James Gray‘s The Immigrant, Roman Polanski‘s Venus in Fur and Nicolas Winding Refn‘s Only God Forgives, Jim Jarmusch‘s Only Lovers Left Alive, which went away empty handed. Well, ok…God will forgive them…
So, president Steven Spielberg and his jury – Nicole Kidman, Ang Lee and Christoph Waltz along with Daniel Auteuil, Cristian Mungiu, Lynne Ramsay, Vidya Balan and Naomi Kawase picked the prizes from this year’s selection. Check them out.
Blue is the Warmest Colour: Adele Exarchopoulos (L), Lea Seydoux (R) and director Abdellatif Kechiche (C) with the Palme d’Or
2013 Cannes Winners:
Palme d’Or
Blue Is The Warmest Color, dir: Abdellatif Kechiche
Grand Prize
Inside Llewyn Davis, Ethan and Joel Coen
Best Director
Amat Escalante, Heli
Jury Prize
Like Father, Like Son, dir: Hirokazu Kore-Eda
Best Screenplay
Zhangke Jia, A Touch Of Sin
Best Actress
Bérénice Bejo, The Past
Best Actor
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Camera d’Or
Ilo Ilo, dir: Anthony Chen
Cannes Golden Palm (Palme d’Or)