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Sunday, May 23, 2004
Palme D'Or for Michael Moore
Moore tried his best to take a bow at the Cannes Film Festival
Moore tried his best to take a bow at the Cannes Film Festival
FAHRENÔUT 9/11.
Basking in the
uniquely French
glory of winning a gold medal for "outstanding vitriol by an ugly
American," Michael
Moore headed for home today to begin a nationwide boasting campaign on
behalf of his new movie.
In one sense he dodged a bullet. Fahrenòut 9/11 narrowly edged out the second place winner, Fallacie 3/11, a documentary by French filmmaker Phillipe de Grenouille proving that the recent terror attack in Spain was not provoked by Franco-European appeasement and corruption. The work drew ovations almost as long as Moore's, particularly in sequences featuring the animated disembowelling of George W. Bush and some of the longest anti-American screeds by French politicians ever put on film.
In another sense, Moore didn't quite dodge a bullet. Racing for his connecting flight to New York at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, Moore lumbered through the pride and joy of modern French architecture known as Terminal 2E. The ensuing disaster has been covered in detail elsewhere, but it can be reported that Moore suffered no more than a few "cuts and bruises."
Terminal 2E moments after Moore hurried through it
In one sense he dodged a bullet. Fahrenòut 9/11 narrowly edged out the second place winner, Fallacie 3/11, a documentary by French filmmaker Phillipe de Grenouille proving that the recent terror attack in Spain was not provoked by Franco-European appeasement and corruption. The work drew ovations almost as long as Moore's, particularly in sequences featuring the animated disembowelling of George W. Bush and some of the longest anti-American screeds by French politicians ever put on film.
In another sense, Moore didn't quite dodge a bullet. Racing for his connecting flight to New York at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, Moore lumbered through the pride and joy of modern French architecture known as Terminal 2E. The ensuing disaster has been covered in detail elsewhere, but it can be reported that Moore suffered no more than a few "cuts and bruises."
Terminal 2E moments after Moore hurried through it
