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CANNES, France – The 2021 edition of the Cannes Film Festival awarded the French film “Titane” its grand prize, the prestigious Palme d’Or.

A wild serial killer story featuring some of the festival’s most controversial scenes, “Titane” was directed by Julia Ducournau, who was only the second woman to win the Palm after Jane Campion won the 1993 award for “The Piano”. ”

And although “Titane” was hotly touted as the main contender for the palm, that reveal came much earlier than intended: At the beginning of the graduation ceremony, when Jury President Spike Lee was asked to take the first prize of the night, he misunderstood and read that instead first prize winner.

“Do not do it!” shouted actress-director Mélanie Laurent, a jury member who sits next to Lee. But the cat was already out of the bag.

(At a post-ceremony press conference, Lee said he had no excuses and that “I screwed it up,” added, “I’m a huge sports fan. It’s like the guy at the end of the game on the foul line. Him misses the free throw or a guy misses a kick. “He also said he apologized to the Cannes organizers.” They said forget it. “

The accidental disclosure of “Titane” was only the first of several chaotic moments at the ceremony, as the spoiled palm unveiling was followed by a Best Actor Award for Caleb Landry Jones for the Australian tragedy “Nitram”. When a nervous looking Jones took the stage, he seemed to have a bad stomach, said, “I can’t do this,” and hurriedly backed off.

When, at the end of the ceremony, a tearful Ducournau was brought out to finally accept her palm, chaos had embraced her. “This evening was perfect,” she said, “because it’s not perfect that way.”

Other big winners were Leos Carax, who received the award for the best director for his eccentric musical “Annette”, the winner of the best leading actress Renate Reinsve for the Norwegian romantic dramedy “The Worst Person in the World” and a pair of ties: The Second -Place was split between “A Hero” by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and the Finnish drama “Compartment No. 6”, while third prize went to the Nadav Lapid films “Ahed’s Knee” and “Memoria”. with Tilda Swinton.

At the last Cannes Film Festival in 2019, the palm tree winner was “Parasite”, the first big prize that Bong Joon Ho’s film took on its way to the Best Picture Oscar. Although “Titane” is far too bloody to be a major Oscar contender, her Palme win makes Ducournau only two feature films in her career as a major international director.

Correction: July 17, 2021

In an earlier version of this article, the name of the winner of the Best Director Award was misspelled. He’s Leos Carax, not Leox Carax.

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Volkswagen inadvertently posted a press release on its website a month earlier Monday, announcing a new name for its US business, Voltwagen of America, highlighting the German automaker’s efforts to promote electric vehicles.

A company spokesman declined to comment on the release, which was dated April 29 and has since been abolished.

A person familiar with the company’s plans confirmed the authenticity of the release to CNBC. They asked to remain anonymous as the plans shouldn’t be public yet.

The press release referred to the change as a “public statement on the company’s future investment in electric mobility”. It is said that all EV models with gas vehicles bearing only the company’s iconic VW emblem are said to be used as the exterior badge.

To “preserve elements of Volkswagen’s legacy,” the company planned to keep the dark blue color of the VW logo for gas-powered vehicles and use light blue to differentiate “the new, EV-centric branding”.

The press release states that Voltwagen of America will remain an operating unit of the Volkswagen Group of America and a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG, headquartered in Herndon, Virginia.

Volts are the derived units of electrical potential, also known as electromotive force, between two points. General Motors previously used Volt for a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle between 2010 and 2019.

The VW press release was incomplete, highlighting the need for an additional listing and photograph from the automaker’s facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

One name change would be the latest EV news from Volkswagen, which held a “Power Day” earlier this month to discuss their EV technologies. Targets were also announced to significantly increase sales of electric vehicles by the end of the decade. It is expected that more than 70% of the Volkswagen brand’s European sales will be generated in electric vehicles by 2030, compared to an earlier target of 35%. In the United States and China, half of all sales are expected to come from electric vehicles by then.

GM didn’t go as far as to change its name earlier this year, but instead announced a new logo and advertising campaign focused on electric vehicles. The Detroit automaker’s new logo includes its gm initials in lower case, with the “m” underlined as a nod to the Ultium battery cell platform that underpins the new electric vehicles. The blue letters are in a rounded box of the same color. It replaced a white GM that was underlined in a darker blue block.