What to remember from the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival

Solène Leroux with AFP 11:23 p.m., May 28, 2022, modified at 11:25 p.m., May 28, 2022

The 75th Cannes Film Festival chose a corrosive and political outburst of laughter by offering a second Palme d'Or to Swede Ruben Östlund, for his acid satire on the ultra-rich and class relations in Western societies.

After

 by Frenchwoman Julia Ducournau, it's another kind of punk, much less bloody, but just as hair-raising and willingly scatterbrained, which won the most prestigious prize in world cinema.

Beyond the Palme d'Or, the jury including Rebecca Hall (

), the Indian Deepika Padukone, and the directors Asghar Farhadi and Ladj Ly, gave its second most prestigious distinction (Grand Prix) tied with the Frenchwoman Claire Denis, 76, (

) but especially to a young talent to follow, Lukas Dhont, 31 years old.

Belgium is one of the winners of the Festival: in addition to Lukas Dhont, the Dardenne brothers, champions of social cinema, received a special prize for this 75th anniversary edition, for

, a social drama about young exiles, and the Flemish couple Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix van Groeningen (

) receives the Jury Prize, ex aequo with the UFO of the competition,

 (

), animalist manifesto on a donkey, directed by a figure of Polish cinema, Jerzy Skolimowski.

Out of competition, the Festival also wanted to make the public dream by inviting the mega-star Tom Cruise, who came to present the new

, and the new darling of Hollywood, Austin Butler, in the role of Elvis for the biopic-event of the

.

Two films on which the cinema industry is counting on to bring the crowds back to theaters, after two years of health crisis.

Palme d'or: Ruben Östlund wins a 2nd Palme d'or for his hilarious

Unfiltered

Five years after

, Swede Ruben Östlund won a second Palme d'or on Saturday at the 75th Cannes Film Festival with

, an enjoyable satire of the super-rich and luxury, undoubtedly the most entertaining film in the competition.

Euphoric on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière, the Swede with a scathing humor joined, at 48, the very closed club of webbed doubles, including the Dardenne brothers and Ken Loach.

"The whole jury was extremely shocked by this film", announced Vincent Lindon, the president of the jury.

"When we started this film, we had only one goal: to try to make a film that interests the public and makes them think provocatively," said the Swede, receiving his award.

Unfiltered 

follows the adventure of Yaya and Carl, a couple of models and influencers vacationing on a luxury cruise.

A journey that turns to disaster.

In a kind of reverse

 , where the weakest are not necessarily the losers, the film dissects the class mechanisms from top to bottom: the rich against the poor, but also men against women, and whites against blacks. .

The director delivers an uncompromising critique of capitalism and its excesses.

Raised by a communist mother, defining himself as a "socialist", the Swede did not give in to the ease of "describing the rich as bad people" but rather to "understand their behavior", he says.

After

 (2011),

 (2014) and

 (2017), Ruben Östlund continues to dissect social conventions, small cowardices and moral dilemmas.

In

, the cast is English-speaking: Östlund has mixed newcomers (the South African model Charlbi Dean, in particular) and confirmed actors, like the American Woody Harrelson.

The latter excels as a coasting captain, letting his boat capsize while he drinks.

Best Actress Award: Iranian Zar Amir Ebrahimi

Iranian actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi, who had to leave Iran for France in 2008 following a sex scandal, was crowned the Best Actress award on Saturday for her role in Ali Abbasi's thriller

.

The actress first spoke in Farsi when she received her award.

"Tonight, I have the feeling of having had a very long journey before arriving here on this stage (...) a journey marked by humiliations", she said, thanking France for the to have welcomed.

In this thriller with David Fincher sauce in the land of the mullahs which recounts the assassination of prostitutes by a madman of God, she plays a journalist in search of truth, but confronted with the machismo of a patriarchal Iranian society.

"This film is about women, about their bodies, this film is filled with hatred, hands, breasts, everything that cannot be shown in Iran. Thank you Ali Abassi for being so crazy, so generous. Thank you for this art so powerful," she said, visibly moved.

Born in Tehran where she grew up, she performed in the theater and held important roles in TV movies and series.

Her career was abruptly interrupted in 2006 due to a sex scandal.

Scandal which forced her to leave her country for France in 2008. "I am condemned to freedom in France, I would like my family to be proud of me tonight as I am proud of my parents", she still said.

Best Actor Award: South Korean Song Kang-ho

South Korean star Song Kang-ho, 55, won the best actor award at Cannes on Saturday night for his role in

by Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-Eda.

Favorite actor of his compatriot Bong Joon-ho, and star of his film

, Palme d'Or 2019, he plays in this Kore-eda film a man involved in baby trafficking, who will form a small family of odds and ends. pitcher around him.

"I'm very happy for my whole family," he said soberly when he received his award at Cannes.

In the film, her debt-ridden character discovers an abandoned baby and volunteers to find her a new family, in exchange for money.

Around him gravitate another man who helps him in the "transaction" and the young mother, whose motivations remain opaque for a long time.

The sale of the baby will turn into a trip between Busan and Seoul, in a decrepit van.

Song Kang-ho expected "meticulous and calculated" acting direction from Kore-eda.

"But he really respected us and brought out our emotions in a way that was really free, benevolent and inexhaustible," he said in early May in Seoul.

In 25 years of career, Song Kang-ho has toured with a number of South Korean directors including Park Chan-wook (

, 2009,

2003) and Bong Joon-ho (

2004,

2006, before

).

The complete prize list of the 75th Cannes Film Festival

Palme d'Or

Without Filter

by Ruben Östlund

Grand Prize

Won ex aequo by

by Lukas Dhont and

 by Claire Denis

Staging Award

Decision to leave

 by Park Chan-wook

Script Award

Boy from Heaven

 by Tarik Saleh

Jury Prize

Jointly won by

 by Jerzy Skolimowski and

 by Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix van Groeningen.

75th Festival Prize

Tori and Lokita

 by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

Best Actress Award

Zar Amir Ebrahimi for his role in

, by Ali Abbasi.

Best Actor Award

Song Kang-Ho for his role in

 by Hirokazu Kore-Eda.

Golden Camera

War Pony

 by Riley Keough and Gina Gammell

Palme d'Or for short film

The water murmurs

 by Jianying Chen

Honorary Palme d'Or

Tom Cruise and Forest Whitaker