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Monday 30 May 2022
‘Triangle of Sadness’ wins Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Fest

CANNES, France (AP) — Ali Abbasi’s “Holy Spider,”
Swedish director Ruben Os- a true-crime thriller about
tlund’s class warfare com- a serial killer targeting sex
edy “Triangle of Sadness” workers in the Iranian re-
won the Palme d’Or at the ligious city of Mashhad.
75th Cannes Film Festival Violent and graphic, “Holy
on Saturday, giving Ostlund Spider” wasn’t permitted
one of cinema’s most pres- to shoot in Iran and instead
tigious prizes for the second was made in Jordan. Ac-
time. cepting the award, Ebra-
Ostlund, whose art-world himi said the film depicts
send-up “The Square” took “everything that’s impos-
the Palme in 2017, pulled sible to show in Iran.”
off the rare feat of win- The jury prize was split be-
ning Cannes’ top award tween the friendship tale
for back-to-back films. “Tri- “The Eight Mountains,” by
angle of Sadness,” featur- Charlotte Vandermeersch
ing Woody Harrelson as a and Felix Van Groeningen,
Marxist yacht captain and and Polish director Jerzy
a climactic scene with Skolimowski’s “EO,” about
rampant vomiting, pushes a donkey’s journey across
the satire even further. a pitiless modern Europe.
“We wanted after the “I would like to thank my
screening (for people) to Writer/director Ruben Ostlund, winner of the Palme d'Or for 'Triangle of Sadness,' poses for photog- donkeys,” said Skolimowski,
go out together and have raphers during the photo call following the awards ceremony at the 75th international film festival, who proceeded to thank
something to talk about,” Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 28, 2022. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP) all six donkeys used in the
said Ostlund. “All of us film by name.
agree that the unique thing Theater. starring Margaret Qualley eda’s film “Broker,” about The jury also awarded a
with cinema is that we’re The jury’s second prize, the as a journalist in Nicaragua. a Korean family seeking a special award for the 75th
watching together. So we Grand Prix, was shared be- The directing prize went home for an abandoned Cannes to Belgian direc-
have to save something to tween the Belgian direc- to South Korean filmmaker baby. tors Jean-Pierre and Luc
talk about but we should tor Lukas Dhont’s tender Park Chan-wook (“Old- “I’d like to thank all those Dardenne, two-time Palme-
also have fun and be en- boyhood drama “Close,” boy,” “The Handmaiden”) who appreciate Korean winners and long a regular
tertained.” about two 13-year-old for his twisty noir “Deci- cinema,” said Song, who presence at the festival,
The awards were selected boys whose bond is tragi- sion to Leave,” a romance also starred in Bong Joon for their immigrant drama
by a nine-member jury cally separated after their fused with a police proce- Ho’s Palme d’Or winning “Tori and Lokita.” Swedish-
headed by French ac- intimacy is mocked by dural. film “Parasite” in Cannes Egyptian filmmaker Tarik
tor Vincent Lindon and schoolmates; and French Korean star Song Kang Ho three years ago. Saleh took best screenplay
presented Saturday in a filmmaking legend Claire was named best actor for Best actress went to Zar at Cannes for “Boy From
closing ceremony inside Denis’ “Stars at Noon,” a his performance in Japa- Amir Ebrahimi for her per- Heaven,” a thriller set in
Cannes’ Grand Lumière Denis Johnson adaptation nese director Hirokazu Kore- formance as a journalist in Cairo’s Al-Azhar Mosque.q

Jury’s duty in Depp-Heard trial doesn’t track public debate

cific instances where she Most of the article discusses clear reference to Depp,
says she was assaulted by public policy as it relates given that Heard publicly
Depp. to domestic violence, and accused Depp of domes-
Depp has denied any phys- Heard’s lawyers say she has tic violence in 2016 — two
ical or sexual abuse, and a First Amendment right to years before she wrote the
says Heard concocted the weigh in. article.
claims to destroy Depp’s In closing arguments, In a second passage, she
reputation. Depp’s legions though, Depp lawyer Ca- states, “I had the rare van-
of online fans have focused mille Vasquez argued that tage point of seeing, in
on their belief that Heard Heard’s free-speech rights real time, how institutions
has been untruthful, and have limits. protect men accused of
that that will determine the “The First Amendment abuse.” (Depp’s lawyers
outcome. doesn’t protect lies that are also seeking damages
But the case itself is a defa- hurt and defame people,” over a headline that ap-
mation claim. Depp sued she said. peared above the online
Heard for libel — for $50 mil- Depp’s lawyers point to version of the article, even
Actor Johnny Depp waves to supporters as he departs the Fair-
fax County Courthouse Friday, May 27, 2022 in Fairfax, Va. (AP lion — in Fairfax County Cir- two passages in the article though Heard didn’t write
Photo/Craig Hudson) cuit Court over a Decem- that they say clearly refer it.)
ber 2018 op-ed she wrote to Depp. The jury, which has to come
(AP) — A seven-person gulfed the high-profile pro- in The Washington Post de- In the first passage, Heard to a unanimous decision
civil jury in Virginia will re- ceedings. scribing herself as “a public writes that “two years ago, for a verdict, must decide
sume deliberations Tues- For six weeks, testimony fo- figure representing domes- I became a public fig- whether those passages in
day in Johnny Depp’s libel cused on details of alleged tic abuse.” ure representing domes- the Post are defamatory.
trial against Amber Heard. abuse that Heard says she That article never even tic abuse, and I felt the And the verdict form gives
What the jury considers will suffered at the hands of mentions Depp by name, full force of our culture’s them step-by-step instruc-
be very different from the Depp. Heard has outlined but his lawyers say he was wrath.” tions on how to determine
public debate that has en- more than a dozen spe- defamed nonetheless. Depp’s lawyers call it a that.q