Haneke’s The White Ribbon wins Palme d’Or
The 62nd Cannes Film Festival closed yesterday, when this year’s winners were announced at the awards ceremony. German helmer Michael Haneke won the Palme d’Or with his black-and-white prison drama The White Ribbon. Haneke had previously won the director award for Cache (2005) and the Grand Prix for The Piano Teacher (2001) at the Cannes [...]
Cannes Film Festival 2008 – the winners
The 61st annual Cannes Film Festival closed on Sunday, when the jury, with Sean Penn presiding, announced the winners. Here they are: PALME D’OR FOR BEST FILM The Class (Entre les murs), directed by Laurent Cantet In The Class, Cantet portrays a Paris junior high school teacher and his students over the period of one [...]
