CANNES, FRANCE (AFP) – Shock-fest Titane took home the top Palme d’Or prize at Cannes on Saturday (July 17), revealed early at the closing ceremony in an embarrassing slip-up by jury president Spike Lee.
French director Julie Ducournau is only the second woman to scoop the prize, for a movie that was one of the wildest, sexiest and most violent ever shown at the Cannes film festival.
It tells the story of a young woman who has sex with cars, kills without a care, and pretends to be a boy despite being pregnant by a vintage Cadillac.
Lee, the first black man to lead the jury, read out the winner at the very start of the prize section, rather than introducing the first award of the night for best actor.
After an awkward pause and regrouping, the best actor award was given to US actor Caleb Landry Jones for his chilling performance in Nitram, about Australia’s worst mass…
