Reuters, CANNESThe Square, a Swedish movie about the curator of a museum filled with grotesquely pretentious conceptual art, on Sunday beat stiff competition to win the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The film’s highlight is a dinner for the museum’s well-to-do patrons, with a performance artist leaping from table to table impersonating an ape in a bizarre, tense and ultimately violent scene. Although members of the jury said she was the first woman to win that prize, the history books show that Soviet director Yuliya Solntseva won it in 1961. Video-streaming company Netflix, which had two acclaimed movies in competition, left empty-handed. Its lack of success should have come as no surprise, given that Almodovar said at the start of the festival that the Palme d’Or should not go to a movie that would not be given a theatrical release.

Source: Taipei Times May 29, 2017 16:15 UTC