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Abortion film takes top Cannes prize - May 29 2007
A Romanian film has won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival - while a British film about Joy Division star Ian Curtis got a special mention at the ceremony.
Four Months, Three Weeks And Two Days, a Romanian illegal abortion story set in the final days of Communism, was a favourite to beat the 21 other films to the title.
The hard-hitting Romanian film, featuring two students in the final days of Nicolae Ceausescu’s reign, is part of a larger film project called Tales From The Golden Age, about the history of communism in Romania.
Previous Palme d’Or winner Gus Van Sant won a prize for his new film Paranoid Park to celebrate Cannes 60th anniversary.
Another US filmmaker, Julian Schnabel, won best director for The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, a French film about the editor of French Elle who overcame odds by managing to communicate with just his left eye after a stroke.
Two films won jury prizes, including Persepolis, an animated French film about a rebellious eight-year-old in Tehran’s Islamic Republic directed by French Iranian Marjane Satrapi.
The other film to take the award was Silent Light, about Mennonites by Mexican director Carlos Reygadas.
Russian Konstantin Lavronenko won best actor for his role in the Russian film The Banishment, while Jeon Do-yeon, from South Korea, was awarded the best actress prize for Secret Sunshine.
Fatih Akin, a German-born Turkish film-maker, won the best screenplay prize for The Edge of Heaven.
Hollywood comes to Cannes - May 16 2007
Jude Law and singer-songwriter Norah Jones will bring a touch of glamour to the opening of the 60th Cannes Film Festival today.
Their new romantic movie, My Blueberry Nights, has been selected to officially open the famous two-week event in the south of France.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio and Quentin Tarantino are also set to grace the Croisette this year.
But today, all eyes will be on whether Come Away With Me singer Nora, 28, the daughter of renowned sitar player Ravi Shankar, can cut it in her first acting role.
The film’s cult Chinese director Wong Kar Wai claimed he could see that the US star had an "acting aura".
Nora takes the lead role as a part-time waitress who embarks on a journey across the US after getting her heart broken.
Natalie Portman and Rachel Weisz also star in the film, which is 34-year-old Jude’s first since slushy romantic movie The Holiday.
Abortion film takes top Cannes prize - May 29 2007
A Romanian film has won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival - while a British film about Joy Division star Ian Curtis got a special mention at the ceremony.
Four Months, Three Weeks And Two Days, a Romanian illegal abortion story set in the final days of Communism, was a favourite to beat the 21 other films to the title.
The hard-hitting Romanian film, featuring two students in the final days of Nicolae Ceausescu’s reign, is part of a larger film project called Tales From The Golden Age, about the history of communism in Romania.
Previous Palme d’Or winner Gus Van Sant won a prize for his new film Paranoid Park to celebrate Cannes 60th anniversary.
Another US filmmaker, Julian Schnabel, won best director for The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, a French film about the editor of French Elle who overcame odds by managing to communicate with just his left eye after a stroke.
Two films won jury prizes, including Persepolis, an animated French film about a rebellious eight-year-old in Tehran’s Islamic Republic directed by French Iranian Marjane Satrapi.
The other film to take the award was Silent Light, about Mennonites by Mexican director Carlos Reygadas.
Russian Konstantin Lavronenko won best actor for his role in the Russian film The Banishment, while Jeon Do-yeon, from South Korea, was awarded the best actress prize for Secret Sunshine.
Fatih Akin, a German-born Turkish film-maker, won the best screenplay prize for The Edge of Heaven.
Hollywood comes to Cannes - May 16 2007
Jude Law and singer-songwriter Norah Jones will bring a touch of glamour to the opening of the 60th Cannes Film Festival today.
Their new romantic movie, My Blueberry Nights, has been selected to officially open the famous two-week event in the south of France.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio and Quentin Tarantino are also set to grace the Croisette this year.
But today, all eyes will be on whether Come Away With Me singer Nora, 28, the daughter of renowned sitar player Ravi Shankar, can cut it in her first acting role.
The film’s cult Chinese director Wong Kar Wai claimed he could see that the US star had an "acting aura".
Nora takes the lead role as a part-time waitress who embarks on a journey across the US after getting her heart broken.
Natalie Portman and Rachel Weisz also star in the film, which is 34-year-old Jude’s first since slushy romantic movie The Holiday.
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