|
Home>News Center>Life | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
'The Child,' 'Shanghai Dreams' win at Cannes
The Belgian film The Child, about a young petty crook suddenly faced with the responsibilities of fatherhood, won top honors Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival.
It was the second time a movie by sibling filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne won the prestigious Palme d’Or. Their teen drama Rosetta took the main Cannes prize six years ago. Like earlier films from the Dardennes, The Child deals with social issues involving Belgium’s struggling poor. The award was presented by Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman, who won Academy Awards in February for Clint Eastwood’s boxing saga Million Dollar Baby. Receiving the second-place grand prize was U.S. director Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers, a droll drama starring Bill Murray as an aging Don Juan in pursuit of the son he never knew he had. The third-place jury prize was given to Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai’s Shanghai Dreams, a love story set among workers who dutifully obeyed the government’s call to relocate to factories in a remote new territory in the 1960s. Tommy Lee Jones was honored as best actor for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. Hanna Laslo earned the best-actress prize for her role as a gabby cabdriver in Israeli director Amos Gitai’s Free Zone, a road-trip tale through the Middle East. Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke received the directing award for Hidden, his cryptic thriller about a couple menaced by a video stalker. The award for best film by a first-time director was shared by U.S. filmmaker Miranda July for Me and You and Everyone We Know and Vimukthi Jayasundara of Sri Lanka for The Forsaken Land. On Friday, Romanian director Cristi Puiu’s The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, a tale of a lonely widower living with three cats, won the top prize in a secondary Cannes competition called Un Certain Regard. July’s Me and You and Everyone We Know took main honors in a third Cannes category overseen by critics. The lineup of 21 films in the main competition did not produce any universally loathed turkeys like Vincent Gallo’s The Brown Bunny two years ago, but it also did not offer any odds-on favorites that had audiences raving. The consensus among Cannes crowds was that the main competition produced a solid but unremarkable crop of films. The main attractions during the 12-day festival were two films that played outside the competition. Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith was the festival’s centerpiece. Woody Allen’s Match Point, a comic drama, proved to be his most crowd-pleasing film in years. Some critics said it would have been a key contender had it been in the competition. The 58th edition of the world’s most prestigious film festival wrapped up
Sunday with encore screenings of the winners and
runners-up.
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
