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“Everything Everywhere All at Once” Oscar’s Closest call 🌺 included

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We had high hopes but once again Oscar won’t land on Belgian soil this year. Film history is written though. Lukas Dhont and his cast and crew have definitely left their mark on Hollywood. Close might not have won the little statue but all the more hearts in cinemas worldwide 🌺🎞

Dear Lukas, Michiel, Angelo, Eden, Gustav & Cie, Belgium could not be more proud of your outstanding ambassadorship through this film. A cinematographic gem to cherish and already a classic.🙌

ArtistCongratz just for that! And a symbolic “screensilver oscar” to go with it. As a token from all viewers, touched by Remi and Leo’s story around the globe. Your very own magnificent once-upon-a-time-in-Hollywood to remember. As in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” 🎞🌺

Ok maybe not all at once 😉 but you will be back 🙌 for more. To be continued.

Which brings us to the ultimate highlight of Oscarnight. This film seems to have it all. Starting by the title. As inspiring as Close, poems might emerge. ArtistCongratz can’t wait to see leading ladies Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis acting their way to Oscar and parallel universes in “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once”

Ke Huy Quan, best actor in a supporting role, gave the most moving speech of the evening honoring his 84 year old mom back home. His story reads like a fairytale. Almost four decades after his role as Short Round along Harrison Ford and Kate Capshaw (Mrs. Steven Spielberg) in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the former child actor wins an Oscar for his role as Waymond in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Congratz !

Which Oscarmovies besides Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, you consider absolute mustsees? Feel free to let us know, we will add them to this list.

These should be on 🔝 , according to ArtistCongratz ⤵️

  • 🎬 Top Gun: Maverick, for obvious reasons, inspiring this years Oscarhost Jimmy Kimmel for a sky high entry 🪂 Lady Gaga performed her latest signature song live at the Dolby theatre
  • 🎬 All Quiet on The Western Front, winning epic war saga, unfortunately all too topical still today
  • 🎬 Women Talking, a revealing story about abused women in an isolated colony, written and directed by Sarah Polley, starring Frances McDormand and Claire Foy, aka the young Queen Elisabeth in The Crown 👑
  • 🎬 The Whale, starring an amazingly transformed Brendan Fraser, best actor in a leading role.
  • 🎬 The Fabelmans, a coming of age drama film by Steven Spielberg, starring Michelle Williams. And the also nominated Judd Hirsch at a dazzling age of 88🙌
  • 🎬Triangle of Sadness: which won the Palme d’or in Cannes
  • 🎬Tar: starring Cate Blanchett, directing…an orchestra
  • 🎬 And Close of course, a moving story about a close friendship between two young boys. From the same director as Girl, Lukas Dhont. His flower run scene will stay with you.🌺
Close, directed by Lukas Dhont, screenplay by Lukas Dhont and Angelo Tijssens. Cast: Eden Dambrinne, Gustav De Waele, Emelie Dequenne, Kevin Janssens…

But from all “women talking” at this years Oscars, the one and only best Actress 👸🏻 in a leading role wins again with this quote ❤️⤵️

“And, Ladies,
Don’t let anybody tell you you’re ever passed your prime”

Michelle Yeoh

Prime Rhyme we might add. You might wanna read some poetry in motion, written by yours truly as a tribute to these 95th Oscars.

Say what? Amen to that,
& ArtistCongratz Michelle Yeoh!

https://www.rhymetime.be/newsletter-poems

And last but not least. Music Maestro’s 🎼

Starting by Lady Gaga and her most intimate performance, a breath of fresh air at the Oscars. Far from glam, but all the more captivating.🎶

Rihanna was one of the other popicons performing live on Sunday. Lenny Kravitz paid tribute to the legends we lost, after John Travolta’s moving introduction. His way to honour his legendary co-stars Kirstie Alley and Olivia Newton John. Remaining « hopelessly devoted, always »

Composer Volker Bertelmann won the Academy award for best original score in All Quiet On the Western Front. The German Netflix-remake of the original movie (1930) based on the 1929 novel by Erich Maria Remarque is probably the one movie keeping Belgium’s Close from winning the Oscar in the category best foreign film.

And then there was this moment when Hollywood turned into Bollywood 🇮🇳

Prepare for an even greater music hype following this years best Oscarsong. You won’t sit still to Naatu Naatu, it’s too catchy. An instant TikTok-revelation, even before the nomination. The song is from the blockbuster RRR, an entirely fictitious story about two Indian revolutionaries, dancing their way through three hours of spectacle. To be added to our previous wishlist 🎬

Warning for people with social-media-sensitive-epilepsy: This music-act is not TikTok-proof

🌺🌼🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺Première Night !🎞

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At Filmfest Ghent, it’s come as Close as it can get. Tonight is “Homerun-night” for “Close”.

This refined Belgian motion picture just might be our next production to make it to the stage of the Dolby Theatre on March 12th 2023.🍒

But let’s not get too far ahead. ArtistCongratz discovered the film in an exclusive preview just yesterday.

The only way to capture completely what it was that touched so many filmhearts in Cannes last Spring. And will touch many more in the months to come.

Writing a review that does this gem justice is not an easy task, but certainly not too much to ask.

ArtistCongratz has made an ultimate wishlist why you absolutely should go see this movie📩

1. Director Lukas Dhont and screenwriter Angelo Tijssens tell a story that concerns us all.
2. Close is close in more ways then one. Be prepared to be glued to the screen.
3. In this film cinema meets visual arts and poetry in all its simplicity 🌺 some things are left unspoken. But the director understands the art of making the viewer read between the lines.
4. The acting performances of the entire cast are stunning. Eden Dambrinne plays the leading role like a pro, although this is his debut. AC would like to invent him a nickname: #Silverscreenblender with eyes like a reindeer.
5. One of the most moving breaking-scenes in a supporting role is played by one of our Belgian fetisj actors, Kevin Janssens.
6. Every school and every student should go see this film and by that we don’t mean just filmstudents.
7. Leo & Remi’s “flower run” will become legendary.
8. This is not only queercinema at its best. Close is cinema at its closest to closure after devastating events.
9. Be able to say you saw it even before it was nominated for an Oscar.
10. Although it will also touch you on TV, this film is made for the big screen. The cinematography is mindblowing.

Close is a Lumière-production. Directed by Lukas Dhont. Written by Lukas Dhont and Angelo Tijssens. Cast: Eden Dambrinne (Leo), Gustav De Waele (Remi), Igor Van Dessel (Charlie), Emilie Dequenne (Sophie), Léa Drucker (Nathalie), Kevin Janssens (Peter).

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“Vive la Belgique!”🎬 «E Viva Belgica!»🥅

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WAUW. ArtistCongratz comes CLOSE to crescendo this week(end). From our own seaside to Le Stade de France and the Rivieracarpet. Belgium is 🔛the map of lalaland!🎬🎶🏆

While Saving-Sant-Thibaut-Tarantula 🇧🇪🥅 is now without a doubt the best keeper🇪🇸💃 in the whole wide world, we can honestly say he won’t have to search very far in need of the best director for his future biopic. A soccer AND a filmcountry. BELGIUM IS ALL THAT AND MORE🎶

« Historic and truly exceptional this Belgian coloured Cannes Scenario”, according to two iconic siblings. They should know. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne add another award to their impressive collection🎞

Three times Congratz-en-stéréo to our Belgian fine fleur or should we say filme fleur 🌹 🎞:

1. 🎬👯Lukas Dhont (Grand Prix for Close) in ex æquo with French Director Claire Denis (Stars at Noon)

Close, story about an intense friendship, inspired upon the directors own childhood, definitely touched the hearts of the jury in Cannes. Next are audiences all over the world.

Never change a winning team they say. Once again Lukas collaborated with Angelo Thijssens. Repeating the triumph of their “Girl-scenario”.

Also Congratz to
The exceptional Close-cast: Eden Dambrine, Igor Van Dessel, Émilie Duquenne, Kevin Janssens, Léa Drucker etc.
Pic shares in story from the director’s instapage

2. 🎬🏔Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch (Prix du Jury for «Le Otto Montagne») in ex aequo with Jerzi Skolimowski (EO)

Charlotte and Felix, surrounded by the cast of «Le Otto Montagne » Their first « joint venture » as a directing duo calls for a sequel ✌️

3. 🎬Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne 🙌 They received a special prize for their film «Tori & Lokita» on the occasion of the Festival’s 75th birthday🎂

Their ninth feature film presented in competition, tells the story of two young exiles with an unbreakable bond, who have come to settle in Belgium.

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Top of the Bill; « le Palme d’Or » goes to the Swedish director Ruben Ostlünd, for the second time. His satire “Triangle of Sadness”, starring Woody Harrelson, succeeds «The Square»(Palme d’Or 2017)
Palme d’Or 2022: «Triangle of Sadness» starring Woody Harrelson. A satire in which a pair of models find themselves at a crossroads in their careers. Fashion model couple Carl and Yaya are invited on a luxury cruise. When the yacht sinks they become stranded on a desert island with a group of billionaires and a cleaning lady.
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A little twist we discovered as a small addition to our ArtistCongratz-Trivia: The Winner of the Palme d’Or and your editor seem to have a certain date of birth in common🍾April 13th 🎂🥳🎬