The world of silence (Palme d’or 1956)
This is the first documentary to receive the ultimate award of the Cannes Film Festival. Through this film, Commander Cousteau, helped by a young Louis Malle to the realization, leads the spectator into the underwater depths. The result of these hundreds of hours of filming aboard the Calypso? A real technical feat at the time, crossed by moments of grace, but also of horror, like the scene of shark massacres.
The mistake (Palme d’or 1973)
Difficult to survive in memories after an ex-aequo victory. The year of his triumph, the film by Alan Bridges shared the Palme d’Or with Epouvantail From Jerry Shatzberg, Road Movie featuring Al Pacino and Gene Hackman. The mistakestory of a friendship between an aristocrat and his driver, was mainly rewarded for the exceptional interpretation of Sarah Miles.
Mission (Palme d’or 1986)
At the beginning of the 18th century, the Jesuit brother Gabriel founded a mission on the lands of the Guaranis Indians. With Mendoza, a mercenary adventurer, he will fight against Spanish and Portuguese domination. The feature film by Roland Joffé, carried by Robert de Niro and Jeremy Irons, is far from having been unanimous. If criticism of Mask and pen had estimated that it was a turnip, The world had praised a “great theological western” on the contrary.
