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This is director Laurent Cantet with a group of Paris junior high school students after The Class won the Palme d’Or award last night at the 61st Cannes film festival.

Here are the winners in full:
IN COMPETITION

Palme d’Or: The Class (Dir. Laurent Cantet)
Runner-up (Grand Prix): Gomorra (Dir. Matteo Garrone)

Best Director (Prix de la Mise en Scene): [...]

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The winner of this year’s Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival is The Class (the French title is ‘Entre les Murs’).

In typical Cannes style, the favoured films (Waltz with Bashir, Che, Gomorrah) lost out to an underdog and this is also the first time since 1987 that a French film (Maurice Pialat’s Under the [...]

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In just a couple of hours Sean Penn will announce which film has won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Predicting what will win is extremely difficult.
Not only do you have predict the tastes of the jury (not easy in itself) but you also have to factor in the various compromises amongst the [...]

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Tomorrow night this year’s winner of the Palme d’Or will be announced at the Cannes Film Festival.
When the festival began in 1939 the top prize at the festival was known as the Grand Prix.
But in 1955 the Festival started to award the best film a golden palm, in tribute to the coat of arms of [...]

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Charlie Kaufman is best known as the screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
His directorial debut is Synecdoche, New York and it screened today in competition at Cannes.

It stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as a theatre director in Schenectady, New York who has to cope with his wife leaving him [...]

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