My Awards
Best Film: Loveless
Best Actor: Louis Garrell taking on Jean Luc Godard in Le Redoubtable
Best Actress: Vasilina Makovtseva, A Gentle Creature
Best Ensemble: 120 Beats Per Minute
Best Music: the 70s bits in Wonderstruck; Good Time score by Oneohtrix Point Never.
Best Meal: Shark and shellfish stew (under)cooked by Emma Thompson in The Meyerowtiz Stories
Best Dance: unsettlingly weird karaoke dance to Sia by the son in Haneke’s Happy End
Worst Dance: Marion Cotillard to Bob Dylan in Ismael’s Ghosts
Best outfit: The “Russia” tracksuit in the final shot of Loveless
Best animal: Okja, the super pig
Best Drink: Jamesons and Ginger Ale at Straight 8 party
Best Food: excellent John Dory at IMDb dinner at Table 22
Best Shot: The collapse of the work site in Happy End; the float down the tower block looking in all the windows in the criminally under-rated Jupiter’s Moon.
Best Scene: The shouting argument in the car back from Cannes in Le Redoubtable; the flop house vodka drinking session in A Gentle Creature
Best Dressed: Nicole Kidman, who pulled off 4 good red carpet looks, one for each of her movies in the official selection.
