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(Some additional shout - outs to: Frederick Wiseman's extraordinary Ex Libris; Scott Cooper's Searchers - throwback Western Hostiles; Agnes Varda's late - act collaborative documentary Faces / Places; the last half of Brawl on Cell Block 99; the epic look at Parisian ACT UP activists B.P.M. (Beats Per Minute); the Canadian zombie flick Les Affames; The Florida Project and Molly's Game, both coming to a theater near you very soon); the sheer balls on Darren Aronofsky for making mother!

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The new French drama BPM (Beats Per Minute), winner of the Grand Prix at this year's Cannes Film Festival, is not, as so many American historical films tend to be, a wistful reminder of how far we've come.

I'll get to it, then, as day four of my festival experience began with just that — Robin Campillo's 120 Beats Per Minute, otherwise known...

BPM (Beats Per Minute) Robin Campillo's look at the Act Up Paris movement in the height of the AIDS epidemic exists on the every fathomable level: the social, the personal, the molecular, and all of the mess in between.

120 Beats Per Minute — the title evoking heart rates and drum machines — won the Grand Prix, though there were some (including, perhaps, jury head Pedro Almodóvar, to judge from his comments at the post - ceremony press conference) who might've liked to see it get the Palme.

Case in point is 120 Beats Per Minute, which follows a group of French ACT UP members in the early 1990s before focusing on one as he falls ill from AIDS.

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Robin Campillo, who co-wrote Cantent's film, should also be ready with his own third feature 120 Beats Per Minute starring Adele Haenel (although this seems more likely to appear in Un Certain Regard or Directors» Fortnight).

The Grand Prix or second prize went to Robin Campillo's 120 Beats Per Minute, the biopic of an organisation, the French Act Up association that fought, sometimes controversially, for a massive increase in research and investment to resolve the HIV - Aids crisis as it emerged in the 1980s.

«Sauvage,» which Tesson said was a poignant and bold drama, toplines Félix Maritaud, who starred in Robin Campillo's «(BPM) Beats Per Minute.»

This year's contest proved its volatility at the December shortlist stage, when such critical faves as France's «BPM (Beats Per Minute)» and Cambodia's Angelina Jolie - directed «First They Killed My Father» failed to make -LSB-...]

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Best Picture: «Lady Bird» Best Actor: Timothée Chalamet, «Call Me By Your Name» Best Actress: Saoirse Ronan, «Lady Bird» Best Supporting Actor: Willem Dafoe, «The Florida Project» Best Supporting Actress: Tiffany Haddish, «Girls Trip» Best Director: Sean Baker, «The Florida Project» Best Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson, «Phantom Thread» Best Cinematographer: Rachel Morrison, «Mudbound» Best Foreign Film: «BPM (Beats Per Minute)» by Robin Campillo Best Animated Film: «Coco» (Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina) Best Documentary: «Faces Places» (Agnès Varda) Best First Film: «Get Out» (Jordan Peele)

GRAND PRIX - 120 BATTEMENTS PAR MINUTE (BPM — Beats Per Minute) directed by Robin CAMPILLO The Grand Prix was awarded by Costa - Gavras and Agnès Jaoui.

Lady Bird, Get Out, City of Ghosts, God's Own Country, Jane, and BPM (Beats Per Minute) rep the 99 percent club.

Many had expected the French 90s - era AIDS drama 120 Battements par minute (Beats Per Minute) from Robin Campillo to triumph but that film ended up with the Grand Prize of the Jury (2nd place, essentially) while...

His top 3 theatrical releases of 2017: Ladybird, The Florida Project and BPM (Beats Per Minute).

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Many had expected the French 90s - era AIDS drama 120 Battements par minute (Beats Per Minute) from Robin Campillo to triumph but that film ended up with the Grand Prize of the Jury (2nd place, essentially) while Ruben Östlund's The Square won the Palme.

The big draws of the fourth day on the Croisette were the art - world satire The Square and Aids drama 120 Beats Per Minute — plus a certain former governor of California

Other film awards went to Laurie Metcalf, supporting actress for «Lady Bird,» beating out odds - on Oscar favorite Allison Janney in «I Tonya»; Greta Gerwig, best director for «Lady Bird»; Sally Hawkins, best actress for «The Shape of Water»; «BPM (Beats Per Minute),» foreign film; Jordan Peele, screenplay, for «Get Out»; «Faces Places,» documentary; «The Shape of Water,» visually striking film of the year; «God's Own Country,» unsung film; and «Mother,» campy flick of the year.

If forced to hazard a guess, I would reiterate my suspicion that Robin Campillo's AIDS - activist drama «120 Beats Per Minute,» one of the competition's most roundly satisfying emotional experiences, stands the best chance.

The festival may still be in its early days, but some have already tipped «120 Beats Per Minute» to win a prize from this year's Pedro Almodóvar - headed competition jury.

In an extended love scene notable for both its hot - blooded sensuality and its intricate, bittersweet play with memory, «120 Beats Per Minute» embraces sex as not just an expression of love or lust, but something more — an act of life - sustaining defiance.

Running just shy of 2 1/2 hours, «The Square» is one of the two longest features in competition at Cannes this year, the other one being Robin Campillo's 143 - minute «120 Beats Per Minute (120 Battements Par Minute)», which screened for the press on Saturday morning.

«We got very specific with the rhythm and the beats per minute.

A few other films I liked and also want to mention despite that they did not make to my top 10: A Skin So Soft (Denis Côté, 2017) Untitled (Michael Glawogger, Monika Willi, Austria, 2017) Good Luck (Ben Russell, France / Germany, 2017) 120 Beats Per Minute (Robin Campillo, France, 2017) Faces Places (Agnes Varda, JR, France, 2017) Le fort des fous (Narimane Mari, France, 2017) Good Time (Safdie Brothers, US, 2017) Electro - Pythagoras (A Portrait of Martin Bartlett)(Luke Fowler, UK, 2017) Columbus (Kogonada, US, 2017) Get Out (Jordan Peele, US, 2017)

A fast - moving flight of exuberance and ecstasy set amidst the backdrop of AIDS ravaged France of the 1990s, BPM (Beats per Minute) is the visually varied, intoxicating, romantically yearning, tragically uptempo, and entirely deserving Grand Prix recipient at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.

Still, he does have strong competition from Claes Bang, the talented Danish discovery who stars in «The Square,» and Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, the terrific Argentinian actor who gives «120 Beats Per Minute» its emotional pulse — and perhaps even from Phoenix and Renier, if the jury is in a playful or adventurous mood.

If «120 Beats Per Minute» is inescapably a period piece, a flashback to a moment when AIDS was decimating the gay community in much higher numbers than it is today, the movie nevertheless unfolds in a brisk, urgent present tense that refuses the consolations of nostalgia.

(Here I must correct an earlier post in which I misidentified «The Square» and «120 Beats Per Minute» as the longest films in competition; at 143 minutes, «A Gentle Creature» belongs in their company.)

L to R: Zama, On the Beach at Night Alone, Ismael's Ghosts, Félicité, Lover for a Day, BPM (Beats Per Minute), The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), The Square, Thelma

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In one of the most critically praised films in competition, the jury's Grand Prix winner 120 Beats per Minute, an activist is praised at his funeral as having lived «politics in the first person.»

November 22: Removed Battle of the Sexes, Blade Runner 2049, BPM (Beats Per Minute), Mother!

The first third of the French film «120 BPM» (Beats Per Minute) deals mostly with the comings and goings of ACT UP Paris in the early 1990s — their actions, stridency, the internecine battles between various players.

With a title standing for Beats Per Minute, this ambitious and captivating drama from French director Robin Campillo (Eastern Boys) covers familiar territory in a fresh way.

Runners - up (all of which might have ended up in my Top 10 if you'd asked me on a different day): «Baby Driver,» «The Big Sick,» «BPM (Beats per Minute),» «Call Me by Your Name,» «Colossal,» «Columbus,» «Dunkirk,» «Ex Libris,» «Faces Places,» «A Fantastic Woman,» «Graduation,» «Kedi,» «Lady Bird,» «Menashe,» «The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected),» «Okja,» «Personal Shopper,» «The Post,» «A Quiet Passion,» «Star Wars: The Last Jedi,» «Wonderstruck.»

But of the French films that did make some sort of transatlantic mark this year (whether through festival hype or theatrical release) you'll see BPM (Beats Per Minute), the horror film Raw, and Agnes Varda's Oscar nominated Faces Places among their nominees...

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BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR Beatriz at Dinner BPM (Beats Per Minute) Call Me By Your Name Faces Places The Florida Project The Killing of a Sacred Deer *** Lady Bird mother!

That's a profound shame, as BPM (Beats Per Minute) won't receive the exposure it deserves from an extended awards push.

Sean Baker — The Florida Project Robin Campillo — BPM (Beats Per Minute) *** Greta Gerwig — Lady Bird Luca Guadagnino — Call Me By Your Name

Nahuel Perez Biscayart, BPM (Beats Per Minute)-- The Orchard Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name — Sony Pictures Classics James Franco, The Disaster Artist — A24 Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out — Universal Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour — Focus Features

It's joined by Guillermo del Toro's love fantasy The Shape of Water, Jordan Peele's prescient horror film Get Out, Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age dramedyLady Bird and the French - language ACT UP drama BPM (Beats Per Minute).

All the major prize - winners are present and correct from Palme d'Or winner The Square to Grand Prix recipient 120 Beats per Minute.

BPM (Beats Per Minute)-- The Orchard Call Me by Your Name — Sony Pictures Classics Get Out — Universal Lady Bird — A24 The Shape of Water — Fox Searchlight

BPM (Beats Per Minute)-- The Orchard Battle of the Sexes — Fox Searchlight Call Me by Your Name — Sony Pictures Classics A Fantastic Woman — Sony Pictures Classics God's Own Country — Samuel Goldwyn Films

For the bigger awards, Russian director Andrey Svyagintsev's Loveless won the Jury Prize, Robin Campillo's BPM (Beats Per Minute) won the Grand Prix, and the coveted Palme D'Or went to Ruben Östlund's satire The Square — a reportedly divisive film that The A.V. Club's own A.A. Dowd said was one of his favorites at Cannes.