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Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix 1983 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Original Song Written 1983 · Nominated
The Meaning of Life was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. While the Cannes jury, led by William Styron, were fiercely split on their opinions on several films in competition, The Meaning of Life had general support, securing it the second-highest honour after the Palme d'Or for The Ballad of Narayama.
Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor.
Mar 31, 1983 · The Meaning of Life: Directed by Terry Jones. With Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle. The comedy team takes a look at life in all of its stages in their own uniquely silly way.
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- Comedy, Musical
- Terry Jones
- 1983-03-31
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life is a musical film/comedy made by the Monty Python comedy team and released on 31 March 1983 in the US and 23 June 1983 in the UK. Unlike their previous two films, which had told a single, coherent story, The Meaning of Life returns to the sketch comedy format...
- 3 min
Mar 31, 2018 · On March 31, 1983, the Monty Python team unveiled their latest feature, The Meaning of Life, in theaters. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review of the R-rated Universal comedy is below.
May 20, 2024 · Monty Python’s ‘The Meaning of Life’ in Cannes: 1983 was the year the world’s most serious film festival fell for 'something completely different.'.
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