The Cannes film festival ends on Saturday with the race for the Palme d’Or wide open and a cracking crop of movies vying for the top prize. Almodovar, 69, has yet to win the Palme d’Or in six attempts, but has brought up the big emotional guns this time, with Penelope Cruz in the role of his mother. Tarantino — who won the Palme d’Or 25 years ago for “Pulp Fiction” — collected the Palm Dog prize Friday for Cannes’ best canine performance, joking, “At least I do not go home empty-handed”. Campion only shared her prize with “Farewell My Concubine”, so if “Portrait of a Lady Burning” was to win Sciamma would be the first women to win outright. He dedicated the win for his story of two women struggling against repression in the 1950s to “all the women of the world”.

Source: Punch May 25, 2019 15:22 UTC