Cannes Canned
Right, I’m off. Make sure you head back later to the film site to see Peter Bradshaw’s full analysis of the winners. If only all awards shows were this gloriously short.
Cannes 2016: Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake wins the Palme d'Or - as it happened
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All the awards at the 69th Cannes film festival, as it happens, with Ken Loach’s powerful polemic winning the big prize
Updated
Sun 22 May 2016 15.50 EDT
First published on Sun 22 May 2016 12.26 EDT
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The stars of I, Daniel Blake react on Twitter here. The film doesn’t have a UK release date confirmed yet but it’s likely to be pushed around awards time.
Omg we've won the Palme D'or our film
— Dave Johns (@davejohnscomic) May 22, 2016
I Daniel Blake ..I'm blow away
Palme 'dor tears flowing across the sea mate. @SixteenFilms love you all, greatest team in the world!!!
— Hayley Squires (@hayleySsquires) May 22, 2016
You can also tune in to the press conference here. It’s worth it for Donald Sutherland alone:
American Honey and I, Daniel Blake are two British films winning major prizes tonight and here’s the official reply from Ben Roberts, director of the BFI Film Fund:
“What a moment for British cinema, and for two important and humane films with so much to say. Bravo to Ken and to Andrea and their collaborators - including the unstoppable Robbie Ryan who shot both films. This is cinema from the heart, and we’re grateful that we have an industry that can support such personal, powerful film-making.”
George Miller has been asked about the omission of the favourite Toni Erdmann.
“There are 21 films in competition. That’s 21 directors and 21 writers. There are many many variables. There are only eight prizes. So there are probably a number of films which might feel like they should have been in the awards. Even though it was a wonderful experience, it was also incredibly rigorous and vigorous. Nothing was left unsaid.”
The jury have been asked about what the experience of serving has been like:
“I think honestly, it was a very fantastic virtue we all had. I want to say bloody but it wasn’t bloody. It was passionate” - Mads Mikkelsen
“It was passion fuelled by exquisite consideration for everyone in the room. It was very beautiful. It was an association of people that you want to see again and again for the rest of your life. It was filled with love” - Donald Sutherland
Last year Son of Saul won the Grand Prix and the film’s director László Nemes served on the jury this time around. He was asked why he chose Xavier Dolan’s critically attacked film It’s Only the End of the World to win this year’s Grand Prix.
“I was very thrilled to see this film,” he said. “I was very moved by it and it was a great experience. We all felt that it was a very moving journey and it had tremendous ambitious and there were many risks taken”
Donald Sutherland says he got so wet on stage that he had to change his clothes and is now wearing a scarf on his head. It’s quite an odd start.
Okay so the jury press conference is about to begin, We’ll hear from George Miller, Kirsten Dunst, Mads Mikkelsen, Vanessa Paradis and their fellow jury members.
Given the unpredictable choices, there should be some interesting answers ...
“It’s a complete surprise. The audience when we showed the film was very generous and we left with a good feeling but we then went back to real life. We are really stunned” - Ken Loach, just now
Andrea Arnold is very happy and has been twerking, she just revealed. She also said she was in her friend’s garden up until 1pm today but was told she had to come to Cannes as she was a winner.
She got changed in the bathroom at the Palais. Here’s Peter Bradshaw’s not entirely convinced review of American Honey:
A mixture of emotions
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