The Queer Palm goes to "La Fracture"

by Nathaniel R

Catherine Corsini celebrates her Queer Palm win

The Queer Palm jury this year was led by actor Nicolas Maury (Call My Agent), and included Josza Anjembe, Vahram Murayan, Roxane Mesquida, and Aloïse Sauvage. They've given their prize to La Fracture / The Divide by Catherine Corsini (reviewed here) which is about a fifty-something lesbian couple (inspired by Corsini's own relationship) who are trying to survive a night in a chaotic hospital during a yellow vest protest. The film is also rumored to be a contender for a prize tonight when Spike Lee's jury hands out their awards in the main competition.

The other eligible feature films vying for the unofficial prize were...

From the COMPETITION SLATE

• Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven) REVIEW
• Compartment No 6 (Juho Kuosmanen) REVIEW
• Les Olympiades (Jacques Audiard) REVIEW
• Titane (Julia Ducournau) REVIEW
• Everything Went Fine (François Ozon) REVIEW

From UN CERTAIN REGARD

• Great Freedom (Sebastian Meis)
• Moneyboys (C.B. Yi) REVIEW
• Women Do Cry (Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova)

From DIRECTORS FORTNIGHT

• The Hill Where Lionesses Roar (Luana Bajrami)
• Neptune Frost (Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman)
• Fragments (Jean Gabriel Pierot) 

From CRITICS WEEK

• Les Amours D'Anaïs (Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet)
• Bruno Reidal (Vincent Le Port)
• Petite Nature (Samuel Theis)

ACID CANNES 

• Ghost Song (Nicolas Peduzzi)
• Venus Sur Le Riv (Lin Wang)

The jury also awards TWO short films this year. They short film Queer Palm went to both the Spanish film The Fall of the Swift (Gonzale Quincoces) as well as the German film Frida (Aleksandra Odic) which is about a young nurse and her patient.

The Fall of the SwiftFrida

The other shorts that were eligible were the following...

• The Right Words (Adrian Moyse Dullin) France
• Simone is Gone (Mathilde Chavanne) France
• Brutalia, Days of Labour (Manolis Mavris) Greece [CANAL+ SHORT FILM AWARD] 
• If It Aint Broke (Elinor Nechemya) Israel
• Uber Wasser (Leia Hasler (Switzerland)
• Billy Boy (Sacha Amaral) Argentina
• Cicada (Yoon Daewoen) South Korea [SECOND PLACE IN CINEFONDATION] 
• King Max (Adel Vincente-Crasson) France
• Cantareira (Rodrigo Ribeyro) Brazil

Comments

[Peggy Sue]

Middle-aged Americans optioning the rights of La fracture in three, two, one.