Earlier than the Palme d’Or will get dished out and after energy cuts took down the city’s electrical energy for a day, Cannes was abuzz with the burning query: qui a gagné le Palm Canine? The reply got here yesterday afternoon at a star-studded-collar occasion on the seashore at The Members Membership. In a woof-and-ready ceremony, jury member Peter Bradshaw famous that 25 movies had come into account for this yr’s honors, declaring that some had been made by administrators who hadn’t even been born when the occasion first occurred on the UK Pavilion again in 2000.
• The highest prize — The Palm Canine itself — went to sheepdog Panda, for her half in a movie directed by her proprietor: The Love That Stays, Hlynur Pálmason’s tragicomic, mild household saga.
• Mutt Second — for the yr’s greatest scene-stealer — went to the British Un Sure Regard movie Pillion for its long-haired Dachshund Hippo and Rottweiler Rosie.
• The Grand Jury prize went to the 2 canine in Oliver Laxe’s apocalyptic highway film Sirât.
• The inaugural 4-Legged Fellowship went to Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Amores Perros, screening in Cannes Classics.
Pillion director Harry Lighton was unable to attend, however despatched a message saying, “I’d prefer to thank the jury for recognizing the nuance, complexity and uncooked intercourse attraction in Hippo’s ‘efficiency. I hesitate to make use of that phrase. Hippo doesn’t carry out, she inhabits, and whereas Harry and Alexander do strong work, it’s Hippo who carries the movie on her little legs… This award is for each small canine on the market with huge desires.”
Unhappy information got here from Sirât star Jade Oukid, who revealed that Pipa, the canine within the movie, was really her personal, and had handed away after the shoot. Nonetheless, director Laxe kindly added that, because of the ability of cinema, Oukid’s canine had grow to be “everlasting”.
And in a transfer so new that disorganizer Toby Rose forgot to say it on the Palm Canine press launch, this yr additionally noticed the inauguration of a model new award, The 4-Legged Fellowship. This went to the crew behind Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Amores Perros (2000), which, just like the Palm Canine, celebrated 1 / 4 of a century on the pageant this yr and is about to get a shiny new re-release courtesy of Mubi.
Iñárritu was a bit too tied up, capturing Tom Cruise in London, to attend, however producer Martha Sosa despatched a message saying, “We’re actually honoured to obtain this recognition from the Palm Canine Awards, for the beloved canine stars of Amores Perros, who’re sadly now not with us. This yr marks a big double celebration: the twenty fifth anniversary of your awards and 25 years because the premiere of Amores Perros at Cannes. A heartfelt thanks to the whole Palm Canine Awards crew from all of us.”
