As we’ll never know what film was denied winning the Palme d’Or over the weekend at the never-happened 2020 Cannes Film Festival — likely due to a caged bat in a Chinese market — this is as good a time as any to size up some of the films that, deserving or not, have won the coveted gold trophy in the 64 years of the festival’s Palme era.
Gazing over the list, what’s immediately striking is the number of lasting classics that emerged from the 1960s and 1970s; seven of the top ten best by my estimation had their world premieres at Cannes during that period, while only three from the past four decades made the grade.
By contrast, on my list for the ten worst Cannes top prize winners were four films from the 1990s and three made since then. On the plus side, more countries not previously considered...
Gazing over the list, what’s immediately striking is the number of lasting classics that emerged from the 1960s and 1970s; seven of the top ten best by my estimation had their world premieres at Cannes during that period, while only three from the past four decades made the grade.
By contrast, on my list for the ten worst Cannes top prize winners were four films from the 1990s and three made since then. On the plus side, more countries not previously considered...
- 5/25/2020
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
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