As per tradition, or an old charter, or something, I thought it’s worth mentioning this year’s….
| ….animated: | La tortue rouge |
| ….cinema: | Draken (thanks to the staff, the screen, the theatre, the sound system, the chairs….) |
| ….low-point: | Anisoara |
| ….shortage: | Documentaries |
| ….short subject | Studio 5, by Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck |
| ….best seat: | In the middle of the row by the fourth lamp, Draken |
| ….should be caught at the cinema: | Loving |
| ….cinematography: | Ping Bin Lee, Éternité |
| ….future promise: | Lene Cecilia Sparrok |
| ….reading: | The Programme and Before they are hanged by Joe Abercrombie |
| ….most uneven: | King of the Belgians |
| ….set/production design: | Lady Macbeth |
| ….theme: | Blood |
| ….aging: | Audrey Tautou, in both L’Oddysse and Éternité |
| ….vignette film: | Animated/silhouette bird that gets shot by two archer rabbits. Pretty pointless. |
| ….weather: | Cold and dry, then cold and damp. |
| ….screenplay: | Gaby Chiappe – Their finest |
| ….villain: | Timothy Spall |
| ….music: | 20th Century women |
| ….Bechdel spread: | 24% pass |
| ….most frequent actor: | Audrey Tautou, Billy Crudup, Richard E Grant and Greta Gerwig all appeared in at least two films each, but Tautou had a greater part in hers |
| ….transport: | Walking boots |
| ….Lost item: | My mini e-book reader, destroyed by a leaky water bottle |
| ….Lost, and retrieved, item: | My big e-book reader, cleverly hidden in a regular book, lost and found at Capitol |
| ….Skarsgård: | No Skarsgård to be found. Not in the films, not at the galas, not in the audience. |
