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...Palme d'Or I was gonna give it to Bernardo Bertolucci, who's been ill. But I didn't, so it doesn't matter." One or two jury members wince at the oafish display, as if to ask, Is it too late to retract the prize...
...prize Palme d'Or, presented by visiting Hollywood royalty Jane Fonda, went to 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, Cristian Mungiu's exemplary Romanian drama about a young woman seeking an illegal abortion for her college roommate in the waning says of the Ceausescu regime. That was an excellent choice, and more or less expected for the strong, grim film that had earned a consensus of critical esteem, and has been picked up for distribution around the world (including the U.S.). It was also a tribute to a country whose cinema industry is on the rise; another Romanian effort, Cristian...
...There's always a surprise film that wins a prize," French critic Michel Ciment said last night, "and a film that surprises by not winning." The unexpected winner, of the Grand Prix du Jury (second place), was Naomi Kawase's The Mourning Forest, yet another parable of grieving and reconciliation. An old widower, institutionalized with dementia, is cared for by a woman who herself has lost her young son. (There were important deaths in every one of the winning films.) Determined to set the spirit of his dead wife free, the man sets out on a long quest through...
...rest, Schnabel's energetic true-life story of a man who learns to communicate after being immobilized by a stroke won the director prize. Satrapi's beguiling autobiographical animation shared the Jury Prize (third place) with Reygadas' very demanding, even more rewarding story of a Mennonite family in Northern Mexico. The screenplay citation went to the Akim film, the story of three parent-child relationships that get sundered; and if the script has more coincidences and withheld identities than a whole season of an American soap opera, it certainly held the interest and provided a showcase for some handsome performances...
...With the competition entries ending today, that gives festivalgoers a chance to predict the winners in the following categories: Palme d'Or (the top film), Grand Jury Prize (second place), Jury Prize (third place), Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director (a consolation prize that is usually different from the Palme d'Or winner) and maybe a few more. This being a festival whose number is divisible by five, there'll be a "60th Festival" award for yet another film. In other words, there are up to 10 prizes given out for the 21 films selected for the competition. Theoretically...