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For Vulture, Dennis Lim allows Cannes juror Asia Argento to plug 42×42, a short film omnibus series with a vodka sponsor that the filmmaker/actress organized with her husband, and then gets to the good stuff: how come a bunch of movies that critics hated won big fancy Cannes awards? Asia, perhaps unsurprisingly, eagerly takes all the credit/blame.

“I was very happy with [Best Director winner] Kinatay,” Argento told Lim, although her subsequent praise of the film sort of seems like an insult: “It felt like the director had no idea how to do it and picked up a camera and was shooting the first movie of history. The 45-minute scene in the car where nothing happens I thought was incredible.” Argento also defended honoring the equally derided Spring Fever with the Best Screenplay prize, even though “the movie was very long.”

So was pissing off critics part of the plan? When Lim told her that both the screenplay and director prizes were booed in the press room, Argento responded, “I know. That’s always a good sign.”