The 60th Cannes Film Festival Winners

[Killroy]

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With the 60th Cannes Film Festival (http://www.festival-cannes.fr/) wrapping up, here are a list of some winners and some films to keep an eye out on.

Palme d'Or (Golden Palm):
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032846/) directed by Cristian Mungiu (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0612816/)
A low-budget, naturalistic film about a student who goes through horrors to ensure that her friend can have a secret, illegal abortion in Communist-era Romania.

Special 60th Anniversary Award:
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Gus Van Sant (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001814/) for Paranoid Park (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/paranoid_park/)
Focuses on a teenage skateboarder whose life turns upside down when he accidentally kills a security guard.

Grand Prize:
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Naomi Kawase (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0442905/) for The Mourning Forest (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mogari_no_mori/)
A film about two people - a retirement home resident and a caretaker at the center - struggling to overcome loss.
Official Site (http://www.mogarinomori.com/)

Best Director:
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Julian Schnabel (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0773603/) for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/diving_bell_and_the_butterfly/)
American filmmaker Schnabel directed this French-language film based on a memoir by a French magazine editor who became paralyzed after a stroke and learned to write again by blinking his eyelid into a sensor.
Official Site (http://www.lescaphandre-lefilm.com/)

Best Screenplay:
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Fatih Akin (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0015359/) for The Edge of Heaven (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/edge_of_heaven/)
Written and directed by Akin, the film is a German-Turkish cross-cultural tale of loss, mourning and forgiveness.
Official Site (http://www.yasaminkiyisinda.com/)

Jury Prize:
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Persepolis (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/persepolis/) by Marjane Satrapi (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2277869/)
A moving and funny adaptation of Satrapi's graphic novel about growing up during and after Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Official Site (http://www.vertigofilms.es/persepolis/)

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Silent Light (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/stellet_licht/) by Carlos Reygadas (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1196161/)
A tale of forbidden love set among Mennonite farmers of northern Mexico.

Camera d'Or (First-Time Filmmakers):
Meduzot (Jellyfish) (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/meduzot/) by Etgar Keret (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0449316/) and Shira Geffen (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0311700/)
An Israeli ensemble dramatic comedy with themes including the need for affection and the struggle to communicate.

Best Leading Actor:
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Konstantin Lavronenko (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0492249/) in The Banishment (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_banishment/)
Lavronenko plays a troubled husband in a Russian drama about a couple whose marriage disintegrates during a stay in the country.

Best Leading Actress:
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Jeon Do-yeon (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0161133/) in Secret Sunshine (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/secret_sunshine/)
Sin-ae moves with her son Jun to Miryang, the town where her dead husband was born. As she tries to come to herself and set out on new foundations, another tragic event overturns her life.

[Doc]

Oh boy do I hate Gus Van Sant.

[Killroy]

Oh boy do I hate Gus Van Sant.

I am a big fan of his. It seems as if everything people hate about him is everything I like.

[swivel]

Oh boy do I hate Gus Van Sant.

Me too.

*looking around for Killroy*

And fast zombies RULE. And the PS3 is better than the XBox '2'.

[CPL CHUD]

Those all look like incrediblely boring flicks. Where are the zombies? Space battles? Talking dogs? BAH!

[dop]

They are making a big deal here out of the fact "Silent Light" is the first mexican film to win the jury prize but I bet its the most boring and pretentious thing you could see like his two previous films. I kind of like Japon(but its indeed boring and pretentious) and Batalla en el cielo is pure unadulterated shit.

[gprime]

Agreed with the earlier comment about Gus Van Sant being a crappy director. Of the award-winning films, the only two that I'm really interested in seeing are Persopolis, because the animation looks quite cool, and Meduzot, because I've got a particular taste for Israeli cinema.

I also want to see the re-cut version of Death Proof that was first showcased at Cannes.

[Doc]

Agreed with the earlier comment about Gus Van Sant being a crappy director. Of the award-winning films, the only two that I'm really interested in seeing are Persopolis, because the animation looks quite cool, and Meduzot, because I've got a particular taste for Israeli cinema.

I also want to see the re-cut version of Death Proof that was first showcased at Cannes.

I wouldn't say that Van Sant is really boring, just a little arrogant, and overblown in a lot of ways. He takes interesting ideas and turns them into movies that fall somewhere between cheese and melodrama.