a pynchonian character wins an award

[umberto rossi]

Michael Moore looks like somebody out of a Pynchon novel. First time 
I saw him on the screen (interviewing Quentin Tarantino) I asked 
myself: what's that grizzly doing here talking about cinema? 
Shouldn't he be somewhere drinking beer and hunting deers? Well, 
these news might be of interest anyway.

Moore's 'Fahrenheit 9/11' wins Cannes award
Saturday, May 22, 2004 Posted: 9:58 PM EDT (0158 GMT)


Michael Moore gets the Palme d'Or to put beside his Oscar.


CANNES, France (AP) -- U.S. filmmaker Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 
9/11," a scathing indictment of White House actions after the 
September 11 attacks, won the top prize Saturday at the Cannes Film 
Festival.

"Fahrenheit 9/11" was the first documentary to win Cannes' 
prestigious Palme d'Or since Jacques Cousteau's "The Silent World" in 
1956.

"What have you done? I'm completely overwhelmed by this. Merci," 
Moore said after getting a standing ovation from the Cannes crowd.
"Fahrenheit 9/11" took the prestigious Palme d'Or amid sharply 
divided Cannes moviegoers, who found a solid crop of good movies 
among the 19 entries in the festival's main competition but no great 
ones that rose to frontrunner status.

While "Fahrenheit 9/11" was well-received by Cannes audiences, many 
critics felt it was inferior to Moore's Academy Award-winning 
documentary "Bowling for Columbine," which earned him a special prize 
at Cannes in 2002. Some critics had speculated that if "Fahrenheit 
9/11" won the top prize, it would be more for the film's politics 
than its cinematic value.

With Moore's customary blend of humor and horror, "Fahrenheit 9/11" 
accuses the Bush camp of stealing the 2000 election, overlooking 
terrorism warnings before September 11 and fanning fears of more 
attacks to secure Americans' support for the Iraq war.
Moore appears on-screen far less in "Fahrenheit 9/11" than in 
"Bowling for Columbine" or his other documentaries. The film relies 
largely on interviews, footage of U.S. soldiers and war victims in 
Iraq, and archival footage of Bush.

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