Cannes Concludes / Final Critical Appraisal for Cannes / Interviews and Profiles from Cannes: Rasoulof

Palme d’Or: “Anora,” Sean Baker

Grand Prix: “All We Imagine as Light,” Payal Kapadia

Director: Miguel Gomes, “Grand Tour”

Actor: Jesse Plemons, “Kinds of Kindness.”

Actresses: “Emilia Pérez”

Jury Prize: “Emilia Pérez”

Special Award (Prix Spécial): Mohammad Rasoulof, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”

Screenplay: Coralie Fargeat, “The Substance”

Next Best Picture's Matt Neglia was all over Cannes this year and posted on X some serious Telluride speculation:

All of these save for Limonov have been fairly consistently on my pre-Cannes TFF possibles list.  I am a little less bullish on both Oh, Canada and Parthenope post Cannes because of fairly weak critical response.

FINAL CRTICAL APPRAISAL FOR CANNES #77

Here's top five films from Cannes from a few of the critic panels:

Screen Daily (on a four point scale):

1) The Seed of the Sacred Fig 3.4

2) Anora 3.3

2) All We Imagine as Light 3.3

4) Grand Tour 3.0

5) The Substance 2.7

International Cinephile Society (on a five point scale):

1) Grand Tour 3.88

2) The Seed of the Sacred Fig 3.70

3) All We Imagine as Light 3.63

4) Anora 3.55

5) Caught by the Tides 3.28

Reini Urban's Cannes collective (on a ten point scale):null

1) Anora 8.35

2) The Seed of the Sacred Fig 8.16

3) The Substance 7.70

4) Bird 7.45

5) Emilia Perez 7.43

INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES FROM CANNES: RASOULOF

Mohammad Rasoulof for The Seed of the Sacred Fig from the Associated Press.