“We really led with our hearts for everything we watched,” stated 77th Cannes Film Festival Jury President Greta Gerwig on what was a fiercely aggressive 12 months.
In a Cannes that delivered a Demi Moore comeback pro-femme horror movie Substance, a floor breaking trans noir Spanish-lingo musical in Emilia Perez, Francis Ford Coppola’s $120M ardour venture Megalopolis, it was Sean Baker’s darkish romantic comedy a couple of intercourse employee, Andora that transcended this 12 months’s jury.
“It was an embarrassment of riches this year in terms of cinema,” exclaimed Gerwig, “we (the jury) could have been talking into next week.”
Anora follows a stripper who falls for a Russia oligarch’s son. He loves her a lot, he marries her, a lot to the chagrin of his household. Chaos ensues.
Said Gerwig on why they selected it: “There was one thing that reminded us of a basic, there have been constructions of Lubitsch and Howard Hawks. It did one thing truthful and sudden.
Talking concerning the Mikey Madison and Mark Eydelshteyn starring function, Gerwig added, “every single performance we loved, their faces we felt…”
“We were invited to be on a journey, it was heart-forward in terms of choosing,” added the Barbie filmmaker.
On awarding finest actress to the feminine ensemble of Jacques Audiard’s Emila Perez, which went to Karla Sofia Gascon, Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz, Gerwig defined, “Women together — that’s something we wanted to honor when we made this award…Each of them is a standout, but together transcendent.”
This 12 months’s jury included Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, U.S. actress Lily Gladstone, French actress Eva Green, Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki, Spanish director and screenwriter Bayona, Italian actor Pierfrancisco Favino, and Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda.
Netflix took Emilia Perez North America and UK rights for top seven figures. With Anora, home distributor NEON wins its fifth Palme d’Or in a row.