Q 01/05

Which 2019 film was the first since Marty, over 60 years earlier, to win both the Palme d'Or and Best Picture?

A) Minari

B) Parasite

C) Decision to Leave

D) Memories of Murder

Answer · why

B) Parasite

Parasite's semi-basement flat and its whole street were built on a set, partly so the flood scenes could be shot.

Q 02/05

Which 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet film has a shy young Parisian secretly engineer small joys for the people around her?

A) Delicatessen

B) A Very Long Engagement

C) Amélie

D) Micmacs

Answer · why

C) Amélie

Amélie was turned away by Cannes after festival chief Gilles Jacob found it uninteresting, and the snub stirred a minor controversy once audiences mad...

Q 03/05

Which Guillermo del Toro fantasy has a girl named Ofelia meet a faun in Francoist Spain in 1944?

A) The Devil's Backbone

B) Cronos

C) Pan's Labyrinth

D) The Orphanage

Answer · why

C) Pan's Labyrinth

Pan's Labyrinth is El laberinto del fauno in Spanish, naming a faun of Roman myth rather than the god Pan, and it went on to win three Oscars.

Q 04/05

Which 2002 Brazilian film, cast largely with real favela residents, charts gang wars in a Rio housing project?

A) City of God

B) Elite Squad

C) Neighbouring Sounds

D) Bacurau

Answer · why

A) City of God

City of God wasn't nominated for the foreign-language Oscar as Brazil's entry, then a year later earned four nominations, including Best Director for ...

Q 05/05

Which brothers gave their first paid public film screening at Paris's Grand Café in December 1895?

A) Pathé

B) Lumière

C) Skladanowsky

D) Warner

Answer · why

B) Lumière

The Lumière brothers were beaten to a paying audience by Berlin's Skladanowsky brothers, whose Bioscop shows had run through November 1895.