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Festival De Cannes 2005
W ith Woody Allen’s lat- est, Match Point, the
last ever Star Wars and the controversial comic book shocker Sin City in town, Cannes 2005 certain-
ly wasn’t short on stars or gossip. But that glitzy trio of films were firmly out- side the main artistic business of the festival – competing for prizes from a jury, chaired by a former award-win- ner, director Emir Kusturica.
The Belgian film-making brothers Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne, repeat- ed their 1999 triumph (with Rosetta) by again snaring the Palme D’Or for L’Enfant, the bleak story of a delinquent who sells his new-born child for cash.
The Grand Prix, the runner-up prize, went to American Jim Jarmusch’s offbeat comedy Broken Flowers, star- ring Bill Murray, while Michael Haneke got Best Director for Cache.
Named Best Actor and Actress, respectively, were Tommy Lee Jones (playing a ranch foreman in his own directorial debut The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada) and Hanna Laslo for Amos Gitai’s Free Zone, set against the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Shanghai Dreams, from China, picked up the Jury Award to coincide with the country’s cinema centenary this year.
Britain’s FilmFour had a hand in two of the winners: Miranda July’s Me You And Everyone We Know, which scooped the Camera D’Or and the Regard Jeune; and Sisters In Law, a documentary by Kim Longinotto and Florence Ayisi, which took the Prix Art et Essai. ■
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