As family dog Snoop, Messi plays a key role in Justine Triet's French legal thriller. Said the director: 'He is as much a character as any other [in the film] and that was very important to me.'
What used to be an inside joke has become, in its 22nd year, a Cannes institution, and this year’s Palm Dog “gala,” held at the Long Beach restaurant Friday afternoon, was a packed affair, complete with corporate sponsor with multiple camera crews attending as well as several canine celebs, including a stunning Samoyed, a beauty of a Border Collie and a mildly petulant Pitbull .
In terms of canine performances, this year’s Cannes lineup was the most competitive yet, said Palm Dog founder Toby Rose. Forced to choose between a “veritable tsunami of dog performances” on screen, Rose said the Palm Dog jury created three new categories: The Mutt Moment, for best dog cameo, which went to a four-legged walk-on performance in Alice Rohrwacher’sVincent Must Die
, and a lifetime achievement award for British director Ken Loach for celebrating “the bond between human and animals and for canines in particular.” Loach, already a recipient of the Palm Dogmanitarian award for making three-legged fidos a fixture in his films, gave a prime place in his most recent Cannes entry,
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