It was disheartening — no, it was completely fucked - up — that the festival competition jury awarded no prize to Toni Erdmann, which was by far the most
popular film in the competition and which did the near - impossible by uniting entertainment - oriented and art - oriented viewers.
Genre played a welcome role
in the
Competition, represented by a black - and - white neonoir (F.J. Ossang's 9 Fingers, winner of the Best Director prize), an allegorical werewolf
film from Brazil (Good Manners, from the team of Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas, winner of a Special Jury Prize), and a comic reimagining of a
popular gothic parable (Serge Bozon's Madame Hyde, which won the Best Actress award for its star, Isabelle Huppert).
I can't f-cking wait for this movie and, seeing how
popular Yorgos is at Cannes, there's a possibility the
film will screen
in competition there next month.