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Palme d'or Award for Ken Loach at Cannes

Old 05-28-06, 02:26 PM
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Palme d'or Award for Ken Loach at Cannes

Palme d'or: Ken Loach for "The wind that shakes the barley".

Grand Prix: Bruno Dumont for "Flanders".

Best Actress: collective Award for Volver's actresses, Penelope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Duenas, Blanca Portillo,
Yohana Cobo and Chus Lampreave.

Best Actor: collective Award for Indigènes's actors, Jamel Debbouze, Samy Nacéri, Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem and Bernard Blancan.

Best Script: Pedro Almodovar for "Volver".

Best Direction: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for "Babel".
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Oof. I've never yet been able to make it all the way to the end of a Loach film. And I have tried so very hard on several occasions.
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How ironic....last night I was wathing Mike Leigh's All or Nothing and then I went to Loach's KES...which should have been released in North America by now. I like the social aspect of his films...they are always edgy!! This award grants a US release, no doubt.

On a side note...really looking forward to Gatlif's Transylvania.


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Originally Posted by Josh Z
Oof. I've never yet been able to make it all the way to the end of a Loach film. And I have tried so very hard on several occasions.
Even with films such as "Land and freedom" ?
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Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist
On a side note...really looking forward to Gatlif's Transylvania.
I'm waiting for Asia Argento and Amira Casar performances.
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I've only ever seen Loach's Kes (I had to watch it after reading the book in High School). It was one of the most depressing things I've ever seen. I'll probably pass on his other work...

Originally Posted by Tutut
I'm waiting for Asia Argento
Me too .
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...not to forget...Avida...

"The kidnapping of a plump billionaire's dog by a deaf-mute and 2 ketamine addicts goes wrong. The wealthy woman takes advantage of the situation to make them fullfil her last...wishes."



Cast: Jean-Claude Carriere, Claude Lelouch, Kati Outinen, Stephane Sanseverino, Bouli Lanners, Claudine Francois, Rokia Traore, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Vuillemin, Fernando Arrabal, Remy Kolpa Kopoul.

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Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist
...not to forget...Avida...

"The kidnapping of a plump billionaire's dog by a deaf-mute and 2 ketamine addicts goes wrong. The wealthy woman takes advantage of the situation to make them fullfil her last...wishes."
There's a long time Delépine and Kervern work for the french TV channel Canal+ (they worked at the same time
than Debbouze, Salengro, Yolande Moreau and so on).

Delépine created is character of special correspondent Michael Kael, after many daily chronicles he improved his work
in a film starring Victoria Principal and Mickey Rooney, "Michael Kael Against the World News Company ".

The first film from Delépine and Kervern "AALTRA " was in black&white and weird too.
For the second, "Avida" Delépine and Kervern were in trouble to find the money but Kassowitz decided to give them a help.
What to say about the cast ?

Lelouch hmm...

Dupontel

Kati Outinen, Aki Kaurismäki's actress.

Jean-Claude Carrière, one of the best french script-writer ever:

* 1964 : Le Journal d'une femme de chambre de Luis Buñuel, d'après Octave Mirbeau
* 1965 : Yoyo de Pierre Etaix
* 1965 : Viva Maria ! de Louis Malle
* 1965 : Le Diabolique dr. Z de Jess Franco
* 1966 : Cartes sur table de Jess Franco
* 1967 : Le Voleur de Louis Malle, d'après Georges Darien
* 1967 : Belle de jour de Luis Buñuel, d'après Joseph Kessel
* 1969 : La Voie lactée de Luis Buñuel
* 1969 : Le Grand Amour de Pierre Etaix
* 1970 : Borsalino de Jacques Deray
* 1971 : Taking Off de Milos Forman
* 1971 : Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide de Jacques Deray, d'après Françoise Sagan
* 1971 : L'Alliance de Christian de Chalonge, d'après son propre roman
* 1972 : Liza de Marco Ferreri, d'après Ennio Flaiano
* 1972 : The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Luis Buñuel
* 1974 : France S.A. d'Alain Corneau
* 1974 : Le Fantôme de la liberté de Luis Buñuel
* 1975 : La Chair de l'orchidée de Patrice Chéreau, d'après James Hadley Chase
* 1975 : Sérieux comme le plaisir de Robert Benayoun
* 1977 : Le Diable dans la boîte de Pierre Lary
* 1977 : Julie pot de colle de Philippe de Broca
* 1977 : That Obscure Object of Desire de Luis Buñuel, d'après Pierre Louÿs : La Femme et le pantin
* 1978 : Un papillon sur l'épaule de Jacques Deray, d'après John Gearon : The Velvet Well
* 1979 : Retour à la bien-aimée de Jean-François Adam
* 1979 : Le Tambour (Die Blechtrommel) de Volker Schlöndorff, d'après Günter Grass
* 1979 : L'Associé de René Gainville, d'après Jenaro Prieto : El Socio
* 1980 : Sauve qui peut (la vie) de Jean-Luc Godard
* 1982 : Le Retour de Martin Guerre de Daniel Vigne
* 1982 : Passion de Jean-Luc Godard (not credited)
* 1983 : Danton (film) d'Andrzej Wajda
* 1983 : Le Général de l'armée morte de Luciano Tovoli, d'après Ismail Kadare
* 1983 : La Tragédie de Carmen de Peter Brook, d'après Prosper Mérimée et Georges Bizet
* 1984 : Un amour de Swann de Volker Schlöndorff, d'après Marcel Proust
* 1985 : Max mon amour de Nagisa Oshima
* 1988 : Un Dieu rebelle de Peter Fleischmann
* 1988 : The Unbearable Lightness of Being de Philip Kaufman, d'après Milan Kundera
* 1988 : Les Possédés d'Andrzej Wajda, d'après Fédor Dostoïevski
* 1989 : Valmont de Milos Forman, d'après les Liaisons dangereuses de Choderlos de Laclos
* 1990 : Milou en mai de Louis Malle
* 1990 : Cyrano de Bergerac de Jean-Paul Rappeneau, d'après Edmond Rostand
* 1992 : Le Retour de Casanova d'Edouard Niermans
* 1995 : The Horseman on the roof de Jean-Paul Rappeneau, d'après Jean Giono
* 1996 : Le Roi des aulnes (Der Unhold) de Volker Schlöndorff, d'après Michel Tournier

Claude Chabrol as a zoophilist.

The singer and musician Stéphane Sanseverino

The comics author Philippe Vuillemin famous for his black humor books:

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Originally Posted by Tutut
Palme d'or: Ken Loach for "The wind that shakes the barley".
Well done to Loach for his re/award. Very few European directors can say what he says in the way he says it.


Kes, Raining Stones and Riff-Raff are great films with Kes being a masterpiece.

Most of his films are painful to watch and I feel like I should be awarded a Palme de Misérable just for getting past 20 minutes with most of them. Barley isn't particulaly attractive but I shall watch it.
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Originally Posted by Tutut
Grand Prix: Bruno Dumont for "Flanders".
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No love for Ken Loach's My Name is Joe ? I thought it was well done.

I bought it in a 2 DVD set with Bread and Roses, but haven't watched the latter, yet.
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My Name is Joe is a very good movie and won a best actor award for Peter Mullan at Cannes. Loach has made so many good films, it's hard to keep track of them all. If some of his films are too painful and you want a little humor, look to Raining Stones. If you're put off by the hard-to-understand Scottish dialect in movies like Sweet Sixteen (which can be had with English subtitles) and Raining Stones; you should look to Hidden Agenda, Land and Freedom and Bread and Roses.

I think this year's award may have been influenced by Loach's work over the years, when his movies have won other prizes, but not the Palme d'Or. Well deserved IMO.

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