"Joyland" beat off several other strong entries, including "Close" by Belgian director Lukas Dhont and "Tchaikovsky's Wife" by Kirill Serebrennikov, both hot contenders for the Cannes Festival's top Palme d'Or award which will be announced on Saturday. Past winners of the prize, created in 2010 by critic Franck Finance-Madureira, include Todd Haynes for "Carol" and Xavier Dolan for "Laurence Anyways". "It makes me sad that the festival is still cold-shouldering the Queer Palm," Corsini said.
Not so at Cannes, where the festival's leadership will not even allow the "Queer Palm" - which has been running for a decade - to set up shop in its main building, the Palais du Festival. The "Queer Palm" has been won by big-name directors in the past and attracted top talent to its juries, but has no official place at the world's top film festival.Īwards for films with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer content are already an integral part of other major movie gatherings, including Berlin which has handed out its "Teddy Award" since 1987, and made it part of its official programme. "It has strong characters who are both complex and real. "'Joyland' will echo across the world," Corsini said. "It's a very powerful film, that represents everything that we stand for," "Queer Palm" jury head, French director Catherine Corsini, told AFP.Ĭorsini herself took the award last year with "La Fracture", which features a lesbian couple's relationship against the backdrop of the "Yellow Vest" movement in France. It is the first-ever Pakistani competitive entry at the Cannes festival and on Friday also won the Jury Prize in the "Un Certain Regard" competition, a segment focusing on young, innovative cinema talent. He instead joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for the troupe's director, a trans woman. "Joyland" by director Saim Sadiq, a tale of sexual revolution, tells the story of the youngest son in a patriarchal family who is expected to produce a baby boy with his wife. One of their loyal fans is Timlin (Kristin Stewart), an investigator from the National Organ Registry who is obsessed with the couple and declares “surgery is the new sex.” For some critics at Cannes, it played more as a recombined collection of ideas from his previous films ( Videodrome, Crash, Existenz) than an inspired return to form, but for others, it satisfied with a sharp welding of intellect to wholly original explorations of physiology and the art world.A Pakistani movie featuring a daring portrait of a transgender dancer in the Muslim country on Friday won the Cannes "Queer Palm" prize for best LGBT, "queer" or feminist-themed movie, the jury head told AFP. Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) is a performance artist whose show involves his partner, Caprice (Léa Seydoux), surgically removing the new organs his body creates.
Unrelated to his 1984 film with the same title, David Cronenberg’s first feature since 2014’s Maps to the Stars is set in a future where many humans no longer feel pain and the body undergoes new transformations and mutations.
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