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Park Chan-Wook is getting a bit foolish whereas on this yr’s Cannes Movie Pageant jury. Through the post-closing ceremony panel, the jury president confirmed a humorousness when discussing the challenges of serving because the main member of the voting committee for a prestigious movie pageant, like being away from the telephones all morning. On making a choice to depart, Chan-Wook joked, “It wasn’t to get our telephones again.” Some decisions, like selecting the perfect director or the perfect actress, had been tougher than others, resulting in a tie or two winners from the identical movie. “So far as the director award, to emphasise this once more, each filmmakers did an incredible job with their work, and we couldn’t resolve whether or not one was higher than the opposite,” he defined. As for who acquired the most important prize of the evening, Palme d’Or, Chan-Wook took it as an opportunity to remind everybody that whereas he’s gained the Grand Prix, Greatest Director, and the Jury Prize, he’s by no means gained a Palme d’Or. “I didn’t need to give the Palme d’Or to any of the movies as a result of it’s an award that I’ve by no means gotten,” he stated, earlier than leaving everybody with one last joke. “However I had no different alternative.”
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