Palme d'Or Articles

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk-EoUb0nvg[/youtube] Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, a dreamlike Thai comedy-drama about a man dying of kidney failure who is taken care of by his wife's ghost, was given the Palme d'Or at the 2010 edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Above is the film's trailer. Among Uncle Boonmee's competitors were Rachid Bouchareb's Hors-la-loi / Outside the Law, Xavier Beauvois' Of [...]

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (top); Xavier Beauvois' Of Gods and Men (middle); Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's A Screaming Man (bottom) Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, a dreamlike Thai drama about a man dying of kidney failure that left many puzzling over its meaning, won the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. "I would like [...]

Philippe Garnier on Cannes 2009, in the LA Weekly: "By this time, news should be out everywhere that Cannes this year was a special vintage. Not only did most of the selected 'usual suspects' outdo themselves in big and unexpected ways — or, like Alain Resnais, find new resources and verve which, frankly, we didn’t know they had in them — but it is also [...]

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 [...]