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Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord, starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve, won the Palme d’Or as the 79th Cannes Film Festival closed Saturday night on the Croisette.
The 79th Cannes Film Festival wrapped Saturday night with the Palme d’Or going to Fjord, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu‘s competition entry starring Sebastian Stan and Norwegian actress Renate Reinsve.
Yahoo’s festival recap walking through the Fjord win and the broader closing ceremony notes that this year’s jury, which included Demi Moore, Chloé Zhao, and Ruth Negga, processed 21 competition titles across a 12-day run.
The festival’s parallel ceremony honored Barbra Streisand with an honorary Palme d’Or for lifetime achievement. Streisand was a no-show after a knee injury; Isabelle Huppert read tribute remarks at the closing ceremony in her place.
The Croisette delivered the red carpet it usually does, despite this year’s lighter Hollywood-studio presence. Monica Bellucci, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Penélope Cruz, Bella Hadid, and Moore all turned up. John Travolta, Stan, Sharon Stone, Dua Lipa, and Cate Blanchett rotated through across the two weeks.
The festival’s other major sales story was La Bola Negra, Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s Spanish-language drama with Cruz and Glenn Close, which sold to Netflix late in the run in a record domestic deal for a non-English-language title.
W magazine’s running gallery of the closing-ceremony red carpet and the final premiere block captured the houses doing the heaviest lifting: Chanel, Dior, Schiaparelli, Balenciaga, and a particularly heavy showing from Chopard’s jewelry side.
The single most-discussed dress of the run came from Schiaparelli. Hadid wore an ivory lace gown with a deeply plunging neckline that drew comparisons to Jane Birkin’s 1969 crochet look. The house claimed the piece required 22,160 hours of embroidery from 130 artisans.
Vanity Fair’s photo archive of the full Cannes red carpet from May 12 through closing tracks every premiere look. Barbara Palvin debuted a baby bump alongside husband Dylan Sprouse during the festival; Cara Delevingne arrived with a much-photographed new haircut.
Behind the gowns, the festival had a substantive cinematic year. The competition lineup, lighter on American studio titles than recent editions, leaned hard on European and international auteurs.
Fjord does not yet have a U.S. distributor attached. The film will travel the fall festival circuit before any theatrical release announcement.
The Croisette goes dark until May 2027.
