Jubilej Kanskog festivala / Jubilee Cannes Film Festival
Jury Grand Prix and the Fipresci Award of the International Federation of Film Critics. Foreign critics unanimously evaluated it as an exceptional artistic achievement, which sublimates all aspirations of contemporary film, while praise also came from Ameri- can actress Shirley MacLaine, who was in the main jury. However, the Palme d’Or was awarded to Antonioni’s creation Blow-Up. We also had reason to celebrate in 1980, when Milena Dravić won the Cannes Best Supporting Actress Award for her striking role as a single woman in a small-town en- vironment in Goran Paskaljević’s film Spe- cial Treatment. The name of one of the most origi- nal contemporary filmmakers is Emir Kus- turica, who isn’t influenced by trends, and who is considered one of the most impor- tant trademarks of the world’s most im- portant film festival. Cannes discovered him, and since then has revered this dou- ble Palme d’Or winner, who presided over the jury in 2005. It was the films When Fa- ther Was Away on Business, in 1985, and Underground, ten years later, that earned him victory at the world’s most prestig- ious film festival, while his 1989 film Time of Gypsies won him the 1989 Cannes Best Director Award. If we add to this list Life is a Miracle and Promise Me This, Kusturica has participated in the competition pro- gramme at Cannes five times. In 1993, New Zealander Jane Campion became the only female director to win the Palme d’Or for her film The Piano. Following the precedent set by the jury headed by Ste- ven Spielberg, the festival of 2013 will also be remembered for the fact that alongside the director, Abdellatif Kechiche, the Palme d’Or was also award to two French actresses, Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos, for the film Blue is the Warmest Colour. During the seven decades of its ex- istence, the International Film Festival in Cannes has become synonymous with qual- ity auteur films and glamorous divas, but has also managed to retain its rebellious spirit. The audience, as well as critics, still indulges in passions and responds loudly. Unlike Hollywood, where nobody boos the Oscar-winners, in Cannes attitudes are ex- pressed clearly and loudly. The jubilee 70 th Cannes festival, filled with joy, freedom and courage, and actress Claudia Cardinale, a symbol of the adven- turous spirit and activism, who is pictured on the official festival poster, promise a huge birthday party with shades of pas- sionate red and gleaming gold. The wel- coming spirit of openness will again levi- tate above the Promenade de la Croisette via films that are a mirror of today’s world, without embellishment.
Glumica Klaudija Kardinale, simbol avanturističkog duha i aktivizma, na zvaničnom festivalskom plakatu Actress Claudia Cardinale, a symbol of adventurous spirit and activism, pictured on the official festival poster
possible advertisement for the film, which went on to win the Palme d’Or. InMay1968,FrançoisTruffautandJean- Luc Godard conquered the auditoriums of the festival’s palace, lowered the curtain in a show of solidarity with striking workers and converted the festival into a political forum. That year saw the festival end in fias- co for the first time in its history. The maes- tro of the scandal was one of the jury mem- bers. It was French writer Françoise Sagan, who presided over the jury in 1979, and who revealed what was supposed to re- main secret: that the jury was pressured to award the prize to Francis Ford Coppo- la’s film Apocalypse Now. Despite the superiority carried by the dream factory under the hill with the label “Hollywood”, nothing is as sophisticated, el- egant, unobtrusive and delicious (like the taste of champagne) as the red carpet in front of the Grand Palais on the Promenade de la Croisette. There everything is seamless- ly packaged and fragrant, with style; French style. Each May Cannes is the epicentre of the global jet-set, where the“cream’of Hol- lywood in particular like to parade them- selves, but also filmmakers from all corners who promote different cultures.
U TRCI ZA JUBILARNU ZLATNU PALMU Ove godine takmiči se 18 filmova, među kojima su dela oska- rovca Mišela Azanavisijusa, Toda Hejnsa, Fransoa Ozona, An- dreja Zvjaginceva, Fatiha Akina, Kornela Mundruca, Naomi Kavase, Sofije Kopole i dvostrukog kanskog pobednika Miha- ela Hanekea, kome se ponovo ukazala šansa da osvoji i treću Zlatnu palmu i uđe u festivalske anale. Najveći ekskluzivitet jubilarnog 70. kanskog izdanja jeste premijerno prikaziva- nje prve dve epizode dugoočekivanog nastavka kultne seri- je Tvin Piks Dejvida Linča. Monika Beluči, jedna od glumica u seriji, imaće i ulogu domaćice ceremonije otvaranja i zatvara- nja festivala, a legendarni španski reditelj Pedro Almodovar dobio je zadatak da predvodi međunarodni žiri koji će done- ti odluku o dobitniku jubilarne Zlatne palme, koju i ove godi- ne izrađuje kuća Šopar. IN THE HUNT FOR THE JUBILEE PALME D’OR This year includes 18 competing films, among them works of Oscar winner Michel Hazanavicius, Todd Haynes, François Ozon, Andrei Zvyagintsev, Fatih Akin, Kornél Mundruczó, Nao- mi Kawashima, Sofia Coppola and double Cannes winner Mic- hael Haneke, who has again been given a chance to win a third Palme d’Or and thus enter the annals of the festival. The grea- test exclusive event at the 70 th edition of the Cannes Film Festi- val is the premiere screenings of the first two episodes of the long-awaited continuation of David Lynch’s cult series Twin Pe- aks. Monica Bellucci, one of the stars of the series, will also host the festival’s opening and closing ceremonies, while legen- dary Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar has been tasked wi- th leading the international jury that will decide the winner of the jubilee Palme d’Or, which is being made again this year by company Chopard.
FROM SAŠA PETROVIĆ TO KUSTURICA
Our first great success at Cannes is linked to the year 1967, precisely half a cen- tury ago, when Aleksandar Saša Petrović’s film I Even Met Happy Gypsies, which de- picts in an authentic way the fate of the Roma people to be condemned to eternal wandering, singing and passion, won the
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