Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Cannes Update - The Tree of Life - Melancholia

Despite the bad critics and some booing from... blablabla. The Tree of Life went on to win Cannes' Palm d'Or. This is then Malick's second win at Cannes after 1979s Best Director award for Days of Heaven, which also won the Oscar for Best Cinematography, that is, the cinematographer did, Néstor Almendros. June 16, keep in mind.

After Lars Von Trier was declared persona non grata in Cannes for committing the crime of babbling about Hitler and Speer and the bunker and his joking about being a Nazi in this press conference, Kirsten Dunst nevertheless went on to win the award for Best Actress for von Trier's Melancholia, which will succeed The Tree of Life, after June 16, as the film I'm anticipating most. What Bret Easton Ellis has to say about the whole thing:
Kirsten Dunst looked a lot sadder when I ran out of coke at an Oscar party 5 years ago than at the Von Trier press conference at Cannes...

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