A day before the award of the Palme d'Or, which will validate a filmmaker's proposal, with the promise of a near-global distribution, another expected award was presented this Friday afternoon: the Palm Dog. Since 2001, this unofficial award, conceived by a mischievous British journalist, rewards the best dog seen on the screens of the festival. Because there are always a lot of dogs in movies. The first winner of this canine palm was Otis, seen in The Anniversary Party, by Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming. In the process were sacred dogs filmed by Aki Kaurismki, Lars von Trier, Sofia Coppola or Stephen Frears.
In 2011, the award-winning animal became a star, posing with his award in Hollywood: Uggie, partner of choice of Jean Dujardin in The Artist. And in 2016, for the first time, the Palm Dog was awarded posthumously. What suffered no discussion, as Nellie the female, who stars in Paterson, Jim Jarmush, the role of Marvin the Male, is as important as the stars Adam Driver and Golshifteh Farahani. Once again this year, the jury broke new ground by awarding a collective prize to the entire barking cast of Dogman, Matteo Garrone's social thriller.
This choice was obvious, as dogs are an essential component of the story. They are there to point out that there is sometimes more animality in humans and humanity in them. But this year, in Cannes, we also saw a lot of cats, again this Friday morning in the penultimate film of the official competition, Ayka, by Sergey Dvortsevoy. So it's time not to sing them and create a Palm Cat - even if the pun doesn't work. A prize that would undoubtedly go to Choffo, who in Burning, by Lee Chang-dong, makes its effect when he finally appears after being a ghost.<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->https://www.lovelyhomefenchbulldogs.com/