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Best Director Pedro Almodóvar for Broken Embraces Jacques Audiard for A Prophet Jane Campion for Bright Star Michael Haneke for The White Ribbon Alain Resnais for Wild Grass   Photos: Courtesy Festival de Cannes  

Palme d'Or 2009, Grand Prix, Special Jury Prize: Alain Resnais' romantic fantasy Wild Grass (adapted by Alex Reval and Laurent Herbiet from Christian Gailly's novel), about a man who becomes intrigued by a younger woman Jacques Audiard's tough prison drama A Prophet (written by Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri, and Nicolas Peufaillit) Writer-director Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, about a northern German community enmeshed [...]

  Dave Calhoun in Time Out London, via David Hudson's The Daily: "For quite some time at the beginning of Michael Haneke's latest film, which is a two-and-a-half hour parable of political and social ideas set entirely in a north German village in 1913 and 1914, you wonder what you're watching, how its disparate parts hang together and what it all might mean. More than [...]