Most of the critics here in Cannes, it must be said, are fixating on Sunday’s Palme D’Or award. Will it go to Steven Soderbergh’s two new films about Che Guevara, which are both playing here together in a bizarre “counts as one choice” four-and-a-half-hour, butt-numbing marathon? Could it be Synecdoche, New York: the directorial debut of genius scriptwriter Charlie Kaufman, who wrote Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind? And then there are those of us who are also giving head space to the no-less-prestigious* Palm Dog award, for best canine performance in a Cannes film. The handsome dog collar (see above, photographed at the London Film Festival rooftop bash) will be presented in Cannes on Friday, after much deliberation by judges from The Guardian, Times, Independent, London Evening Standard and heat. Watch this space.
*OK, slightly less prestigious.
heat’s Film Editor Charles Gant is at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
Canine comp at Cannes