As the penultimate day of the 70th Cannes Film Festival comes to a close in the South of France, all 19 of the films in the main competition have screened. The most prestigious prize on the international film-festival circuit, the Palme d’Or, is now in the hands of a nine-member jury headed by director Pedro Almodovar and also including actors Jessica Chastain and Will Smith, directors Maren Ade and Paolo Sorrentino and composer Gabriel Yared.
What will they choose? Occasionally, a clear frontrunner emerges and takes the Palme: “Blue Is the Warmest Color” was the odds-on favorite in 2013, and “Amour” the year before that.