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...What are the rules? The ranking goes like this: first place, Palme d'Or; second place, Grand Jury Prize; third place, Jury Prize. The Jury may also bestow awards for Director, Screenplay, Actor and Actress. A separate commission votes a prize for Superior Technique. Yet another group chooses the Camera d'Or for best first feature - one of the few awards with monetary value: about...
...wake of the 1991 Palmares, when the Jury voted three top prizes (the Palme, Best Director and Best Actor) to the Coen brothers' Barton Fink, the Festival imposed a rule against awarding the same film the Palme and Director prizes. This flies in the face of Cannes' deep and long-held belief that the director is the author of the film. In this Church of Auteurism, the best film must be the work of the best director. But Cannes is at least as political as it is canonical. It wants to make almost everybody happy, to distribute its party favors...
...turnover in eligible voters each year. The festival bosses choose nine or 10 distinguished members of the film and literary community to serve. This year's Jury comprises directors Emir Kusturica (President), Fatih Akin, Benoit Jacquot, Agnes Varda and John Woo; actresses Nandita Das and Salma Hayek; actor Javier Bardem; and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison...
...Broken Flowers held promise of being a breakthrough comedy for Jarmusch. Murray, lately the go-to actor for independent-minded directors, has established an amusingly dour screen personality that twins nicely with Jarmusch's. The writer-director shows his understanding of the Murray persona by casting him as Don Johnston, a man who searches for the mother of his son less out of a passion for knowledge than because he lacks the resolve to say no to his neighbor Winston (Jeffrey Wright), who had eagerly proposed the trip. The presence of Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange and Tilda Swinton...
...splatter movie trying to pass itself off as a Sundance film, and a few critics at Cannes were outraged by the tests of faith it presented: of Christian faith for the characters, of plausibility for the audience. What's undeniable is the showcase it provides the young Mexican actor primed for U.S. stardom. Lending an impeccable American accent to his brooding good looks, Garcia Bernal expertly embodies a young man who can be gentle and cruel, a courtly lover and a ruthless killer...