The festival is over!
After twelve days, the 70th Cannes Film Festival has finished. And I gotta say, it's a little sad. I could genuinely cry.
If I wasn't so angry about Coppola winning the Best Director award.
But I digress. 120 Battements par Minute won the Jury Prize, and Diane Kreuger won Best Actress for In the Fade, so I really can't complain at all. Except that Killing of a Sacred Deer TIED for best screenplay along with You Were Never Really Here. Which... well, at least it won.
Nevertheless, I still managed to fit in two more films today! The first one I saw was Jupiter's Moon, a film that everyone had been talking up in our program. Visually, it was incredible. Narrative-wise... Well, I found a moment to go to the bathroom, if that tells you anything. I did watch it until the end, however.
And then, instead of trying to get into the closing ceremony (my begging days are FAR behind me), we all decided to go see Le Redoutable, a film about the life of Jean-Luc Godard following the failure of his film Le Chinoise.
It was hilarious. It felt like a Wes Anderson film, but even sharper in its humor. It was completely self-aware of its context, and it used it to its advantage.
Ultimately, this was a great way to end our experience at the Cannes Film Festival. Unfortunately, I also need to catch up on the 50 hours of sleep I sacrificed for this week.
Still, I wouldn't have traded it for the world.
Movie Count: 31
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