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...Moore?s documentary ?Fahrenheit 9/11,? a passionate, well-constructed indictment of the Bush Administration?s foreign and domestic policies, won the Palme d?Or, or top prize, at the 57th Cannes Film Festival. When the award was announced, the huge crowd erupted in cheers and applause. As he mounted the stage, this self-described outsider seemed nonplussed by his new status as Minister of Film Information. In mock outrage he turned to Quentin Tarantino, the President of the Cannes Jury, to demand, ?What have you done?? and ?You just did this to mess...
...Tarantino Jury did give a prize to a politically correct road movie, but not this one. Instead, the Mise-en-Scene (Best Director) award went to Tony Gatlif, the Algerian-born French auteur of ?Exiles,? about the southbound trip two young people take from France through Spain to return to their parents? birthplace in Algeria. You could canvass critics from Sweden to the Sahara and not find one who liked the movie - but that?s juries...
...hour before the prizes are announced, scores of celebrities parade up the red-carpeted staircase of the Grand Palais. Among them are the eventual prize-winners. Sharp-eyed viewers thus can figure who will win some award and who, by their absence, will be shut out. We noted that Salles and Garcia Bernal were among the missing, as were the stars of ?Shrek 2,? which one trade paper had touted as the big winner. And where, one wondered, was Wong Kar-wai, writer-director of the Festival?s most eagerly awaited film, ?2046,? and his luminous cast: Zhang Ziyi, Gong...
...interests: all eight prizewinners were either American, East Asian or French. Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 became the first documentary to win the best-in-show Palme d'Or since Jacques Cousteau's The Silent World 48 years ago. Two of the best films couldn't win an award, since they were shown out of competition: Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education and Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers. Almodóvar, after the consecutive masterpieces All About My Mother and Talk to Her, plunges into film noir territory with a melodrama about a Madrid schoolboy molested...
...duck-hunter couture, was prowling the Riviera in a tuxedo jacket and baggy black trousers, and this time the game he was aiming at was George W. Bush. Cannes was primed for Moore's latest movie Molotov cocktail, Fahrenheit 9/11, long before it won the coveted Palme D'Or award on Saturday evening. The film's first screening, on a Monday at 8 a.m., got blanket news coverage; a dozen or so radio and TV crews circled the U.S. critics to get their early reaction. Meanwhile, Miramax Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein, whose Disney bosses had forbidden him to release...