Odds on Palme Have Loach Out Front

The odds are on the Ken Loach’s Route Irish, a late entry to the Cannes Film Fest, will win the whole thing. The Loach film is about two ex-soldiers moving to Iraq to work as private contractors. Loach is considered a favorite because of his past record with the Golden Palme — most recently, Loach won for The Wind that Shakes the Barley. Oscar, of course, knows nothing of Loach. Paddy Power’s full odds:

Palme D’Or Winner 2010
3/1  Route Irish (Ken Loach)
4/1  Biutiful (Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu)
5/1  Another Year (Mike Leigh)
6/1  La Princesse de Monptpensier (Bertrand Tavernier)
6/1  Poetry (Lee Chang-dong)
10/1 Fair Game (Doug Liman)
12/1 Tournee (Mathieu Almaric)
14/1 Des Hommes et des Dieux (Xavier Beauvois)
16/1 Hors-la-loi (Rachid Bouchareb)
16/1 Un Homme Qui Crie (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
18/1 Outrage (Takeshi Kitano)
18/1 You, My Joy (Sergei Lovnitsa)
20/1 Housemaid (Im Sangsoo)
20/1 La Nostra Vita (Daniele Luchetti)
20/1 Loong Boonmee Ralek Chaat (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
25/1 Rizhao Chongqing (Xiaoshuai Wang)
25/1 Copie Conforme (Abbas Kiarostami)
33/1 A Frankenstein-terv (Kornel Mundruczo)
33/1 Utomlyonnye Solntsem 2 (Nikita Mikhalkov)