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Lukas Dhont also competed for the Palm d'Or with this courageous movie about Belgian support soldiers in the Great War, and our own David Caballero gives us his impressions (including the inevitable comparison with La Bola Negra) right after leaving the Cineum in Cannes, were a fire broke out as he was filming his update. Can't get more war-like!
"So I'm at the 79th Film Festival in Cannes and I just left one of the theatres at the Cineum and I just watched a movie called Coward, and it's a very brave movie by Lukas Dhont and I was hearing this is one of the favourite for tonight Palme d'Or awards and now I know why, I wanted to see it, I only got access to a limited number of movies this year because of the dates we chose and the time we have here, but now I understand it's strong, at times it's really strong, it's a movie about World War..."
"So I have to continue this update indoors because a fire broke out in the background as I was filming this update about Coward. As I was saying it's a very brave movie by Lukas Dhont it's set in the World War I where Belgian soldiers were providing support for the front line it's not your typical war movie, I liked the pace to it, I liked the colours, the photography the oranges to it, and it makes it different and warmer than most of your typical war movies before I compare it with La Bola Negra because that's inevitable, I wanted to say it kind of dilutes towards the end I liked more of the strongest moments where it managed to move me, when they sing when the whole group of soldiers are singing together and those moments are super powerful and really managed to move me, but I don't think, let me compare it, I don't think it's as impactful as La Bola Negra and I say it's inevitable to compare them because both are competing for tonight's Palme d'Or and yesterday people were telling me that Coward is probably got a bigger chance of winning the Palme d'Or but yeah, coincidentally they deal with similar topics, they are both based in the war even if one is WWI and the other one is the Spanish Civil War they both deal with theatre in war times and they both mainly deal with sexuality in war times and they do it completely differently, but again when you're here to watch movies and to review them and then you've watched La Bola Negra first, which is a much more complicated movie with three interwoven stories and then there are some mysteries that you unravel throughout the film it was fresher to me, more entertaining, if you know what I mean whereas Coward is simpler, it's very well done, it's beautiful and it's probably got a better pace to it, as I said but if I had to choose my favourite for tonight, I would say that La Bola Negra is just something else so I'm placing my bet on that one and I will be there at the red carpet waiting for the closing ceremony so stay tuned for my review on both movies and other movies I've been watching here in Cannes Thank you for watching!"
