Cannes recognizes experimental cinema and praises Bardem

With an eminently French track record, the 63rd Cannes Film Festival consolidates the careers of Javier Bardem and Juliette Binoche, while recognizing the most experimental cinematography such as the work of Thai Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The Mexican film 'Leap Year', directed by Michael Rowe, has won the Camera d'Or.

This year Cannes has turned its gaze to more experimental cinema, awarding the jury chaired by Tim Burton the Palme d'Or to Thai Apichatpong Weerasethakul for his poetic film Lung Boonmee Raluek Chat (Uncle Boonmee who remembers his past lives“.

In addition to experimental cinema, the award has recognized the good harvest of French cinema. The actor Mathieu Amalric has received the award for best director for his debut film Tour, while the Grand Prize has gone to Of men and gods, directed by Xavier Beauvois. Another Frenchwoman, Juliette Binoche, has managed to dazzle the jury with her magnificent performance in the film by the Iranian Abbas Kiarostami, Certified copy.

The Mexican film Leap Year, directed by the Mexican-based Australian Michael Rowe, has managed to win the renowned Camera d'Or first film award.

Javier Bardem, for his excellent role as Ucbal in the film by ALejandro González, Biutiful, and the Italian Elio Germano, for Our life, they will have to share ex aequo the Palme d'Or for best male performance.

The award for best screenplay went to South Korean Lee Chang-dong, for the film Poetry and that of the jury for the Chadiana A man who screams, by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, the first production filmed in Black Africa in thirteen years to compete at Cannes.

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