Lars von Trier defied expectations, and sparked even more controversy, when his "Antichrist" leading lady, the very lovely, Balenciaga muse, Charlotte Gainsbourg was awarded the Best Actress trophy at the Cannes Film Festival.
Crazy and weird as he might be, very few living directors push actresses to the lengths he takes them to. The stories about how he tortured Bjork in "Dancer in the Dark" are legendary, but she got Best Actress at Cannes too (and was robbed of an Oscar nomination), Nicole Kidman was never better than in "Dogville", and the seriously underrated Bryce Dallas Howard was phenomenal in "Manderlay".
Other winners at the festival included Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon" which was awarded the Palme d'Or and Christoph Waltz as Best Actor for Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Basterds".
Rest of winners at the festival's website.
2 comments:
i've enjoyed roger ebert's blogging from the cannes festival. I'm excited about seeing "Antichrist", sounds interesting at least... and "dancer in the dark" was a revelation.
Im a Vor Trier's fan, i discover him thanks to Bjork ( oh my dearest Bjork, can't live withouth her ) and then i went deep into vor trier's , one of the movies of him that i like it a lot is breaking the waves ( the previous to dancer i think ) shows an amazing Emily Watson. I heard that Antichrist was not very accepted when it was shown in Cannes ( it received buuus ) but i think is one of the peculiarities of Von trier, to make non accesible films.
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