Cannes 2024: Which film will win this year's coveted Palme d'Or?

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The Palme d'Or, the most prestigious prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival, will be announced on Saturday 25 May. Here are our main contenders for the title...

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00:00Our Euronews culture has been in Cannes over the past fortnight celebrating this festival

00:13of film here at the most prestigious and certainly the most glamorous film festival in the world.

00:19David, it's been incredible over the last two weeks. What have been your highlights?

00:24What stood out and what are you tipping for the coveted Palme d'Or on Saturday night?

00:29Okay, there's a lot to unpack there. So, no, it's been a very, very good festival, very

00:33eclectic bunch. I think for the Palme d'Or, and these also happen to be my favourites

00:38obviously, I think that there's four films basically that could nab it. Emilia Perez

00:45by Jacques Audiard, this cartel Mexican set musical, which sounds like an absolute mess

00:52on paper, but it really, really works. It's infectiously joyous and the performances are

00:58great and it is something that we weren't expecting, so that's always great. I think

01:03Coralie Farge as The Substance could potentially do what Titan did in 2021. It's a genre film,

01:11a horror film, it's breathtakingly intense and it culminates in this kind of grand guignol

01:18explosion of gore, which is again something we haven't had this year, so that was great.

01:24And the other one, Miguel Gomes, the Portuguese filmmaker, has a film called Grand Tour. Now,

01:30this is a very, very hard one to recommend because the first hour is not an easy watch

01:37because it is soporific and it is this kind of fever dream, but once you get on its wavelength,

01:42it talks about a man who walks out on his marriage and who starts travelling and his

01:49wife, his, well, would-be wife, follows him bit by bit and it is, it's very hard to describe,

01:56it is this very atmospheric, poetic piece, which I think could be in for a chance. It would

02:04certainly be a very audacious choice. And then, for me, it's Anora by Sean Baker. This, again,

02:11euphoric, I came out of the cinema just feeling energised by what I'd seen and that is what you

02:18want cinema to be and that tells the tale of a young sex worker in Manhattan and it turns into

02:24this screwball comedy, which has a little bit of a dark underbelly because at the end of the day,

02:30it is about those whose society marginalise and choose to marginalise and how they will always

02:37be set up to fail, but again, just a very vibrant, very chaotic film, but one that completely won

02:44me over, so that is my top pick for the Palme d'Or this year.

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