{"id":3454,"date":"2018-05-19T19:16:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T19:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/05\/19\/netflix-acquires-cannes-winners-happy-as-lazzaro-and-girl-after-falling-out-with-festival\/"},"modified":"2018-05-19T19:16:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T19:16:04","slug":"netflix-acquires-cannes-winners-happy-as-lazzaro-and-girl-after-falling-out-with-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/05\/19\/netflix-acquires-cannes-winners-happy-as-lazzaro-and-girl-after-falling-out-with-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Acquires Cannes Winners \u2018Happy as Lazzaro\u2019 and \u2018Girl\u2019 After Falling Out With Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After pulling its films from the festival and giving the impression that it might leave the Croisette with little to show for it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix\">Netflix<\/a> has gone ahead and acquired two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/cannes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cannes\">Cannes<\/a> prizewinners: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/happy-as-lazzaro\/\" id=\"auto-tag_happy-as-lazzaro\">Happy as Lazzaro<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/girl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_girl\">Girl<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0Alice Rohrwacher&#8217;s follow-up to her Grand Jury Prize\u2013winning &#8220;The Wonders&#8221; shared the Best Screenplay award with Jafar Panahi&#8217;s &#8220;3 Faces,&#8221; and Lukas Dhont&#8217;s film won both the Camera d&#8217;Or for best first film and Best Actor laurels in the Un Certain Regard section for Victor Polster.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/05\/netflix-cannes-deal-next-gen-animated-robot-film-1201963304\/\" title=\"Netflix Makes First Cannes Purchase With $30 Million Deal for Animated Robot Film \u2018Next Gen\u2019\">Netflix Makes First Cannes Purchase With $30 Million Deal for Animated Robot Film \u2018Next Gen\u2019<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>The streaming service now owns the rights to both films in North America and Latin America. It&#8217;s been in a sort of dispute with Cannes over the festival&#8217;s decision to disqualify films that don&#8217;t receive theatrical releases from its vaunted Competition; last year Netflix had two movies in Competition: Noah Baumbach&#8217;s &#8220;The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)&#8221; and Bong Joon-ho&#8217;s &#8220;Okja.&#8221; Notably, as a competition film at this year&#8217;s festival, &#8220;Happy as Lazzaro&#8221; would not have been able to play at Cannes if Netflix had acquired it prior to Cannes.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/05\/netflix-cannes-loophole-everybody-knows-1201961253\/\" title=\"Netflix Eyes Cannes Loophole, Could Buy \u2018Everybody Knows\u2019 and More Palme d\u2019Or Contenders \u2014 Report\">Netflix Eyes Cannes Loophole, Could Buy \u2018Everybody Knows\u2019 and More Palme d\u2019Or Contenders \u2014 Report<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>No release dates have been set for &#8220;Happy as Lazzaro&#8221; or &#8220;Girl.&#8221; Other big winners at the festival include Hirokazu Kore-eda&#8217;s &#8220;Shoplifters,&#8221; which won the Palme d&#8217;Or; Spike Lee&#8217;s Grand Prix\u2013winning &#8220;BlacKkKlansman&#8221;; and\u00a0Pawel Pawlikowski, who won Best Director for &#8220;Cold War.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link sign-up\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Sign Up:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/indiewire.com\/email\" title=\"Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! 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Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After pulling its films from the festival and giving the impression that it might leave the Croisette with little to show&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-3454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-TI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}