The winner of the Best Picture award at Cannes: Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley, beating out the heavily-favored Volver and Babel. Interesting that the only explicitly politcal film at the festival won.
Grand Prix: Flandres.
This is all for the moment. Everyone enjoy the weekend.
28 May 2006
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Interesting... I was under the impression (mistaken?) that Southland Tales was also explicitly political, albeit futuristic. Apart from the broad-reaching ideas of politics in the festival, I believe I read in I think Phillips' writing in the Trib that ST makes specific reference to Patriot Act. But then, it was also a heaping pile of suck, so maybe that's all beside the point.
ReplyDeleteOh, and this is probably old news, but pathe.co.uk has trailers for both Volver and Barley.
ReplyDeleteOr rather, Barley. Volver is not up yet. I'm going to stop posting like 12 times here.
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