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...Cannes Film Festival caught a political fever last year, and Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 copped the top-prize Palme d'Or. This May anti-Bush harangues gave way to cooler fare: family dramas and open-ended mysteries. L'Enfant, by the Belgian Dardenne brothers, took the highest honor. But here are this Riviera veteran's personal palmes...
...could keep the trick of his character hidden so far up his sleeve. In recent festivals, Cannes has rewarded films critical of American crimes and adventures. Gus Van Sant's Elephant, a reimagining of the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, and Michael Moore's anti-Bush Fahrenheit 9/11 were the past two years' Palme d'Or winners...
...coalition soldiers march into Baghdad. (One critic called the film "insufficiently anti-American.") There was also a British documentary, Adam Curtis' The Power of Nightmares, which traces the parallel inception and growth of Islamic fundamentalism and American neoconservatism, and diagnoses dire consequences from both. The film played like Fahrenheit 9/11, only cooler and way smarter. But it was shown out of competition, thus ineligible for a palm of any color. Cool is the temperature of the standard Cannes film. When a movie forthrightly engages the emotions - as Marco Tullio Giordana's Once You're Born superbly did in its story...
...prize this year, the big money (which is not always the smart money) is on two mystery melodramas about identity: Michael Haneke's Hidden and Cronenberg's A History of Violence. One critic, looking to the past two years, when the Palme winners Elephant and Fahrenheit 9/11 were both critical of American society, suggests that the Palme might go to Lars Von Trier's Manderlay, a parable of freed slaves reluctant to give up their old servitude. Hmmm... we wonder what Toni Morrison thinks of that film...
...early 90s (sex, lies, and videotape, Wild at Heart, Barton Fink). In the last two years, with American political domination a sore point to much of the world, Cannes pinned its crowning laurels on Gus Van Sant's Elephant, with its evocation of the Columbine High School massacre, and Fahrenheit 9/11. The prizes were as much messages to the world's only superpower as they were nods to the films' craftsmanship and power...