Despite Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and George Clooney being the biggest draw cards at the 60th Cannes Film Festival this past week, (they were there to promote their film on the death of Daniel Perlman as well as "Oceans Thirteen", but they also raised a massive almost €10 000 000 for Darfur!), it was a small Romanian film that was crowned with the Golden Palm this year."Il semble enfin qu'on n'ait plus besoin de gros budgets et de grandes stars pour faire une histoire que tout le monde écoutera", exclaimed Romanian director, Cristian Mungiu, winner of the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival last night. (It seems that finally we do not need big budgets and big stars to tell a story that the world will listen to). He continued to express his wish that this win for his very 'small' but powerful little film, "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days", which follows the harrowing journey of two women as they seek an illegal abortion in Communist Romania, will augur good things for the small film makers from small countries.
US film-makers Joel and Ethan Coen had been among those tipped to take home the Palme d'Or, but left with empty-handed. The American director Julian Schnabel won the best director prize for his adaptation of the best-selling French book, "Le scaphandre et le papillon", -- "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly", the autobiography - and the most amazing feat of courage and perseverance of Jean-Dominique Bauby, while Japan's The Mourning Forest claimed the Grand Prix.The important Jury Prize was shared between Mexico's Silent Light, by Carlos Reygadas, and animated Iranian film Persepolis, from Marjane Satrapi and France's Vincent Paronnaud.
Another US director Gus Van Sant, and Cannes favourite, won a special prize - created to celebrate the festival's 60th year- for his film Paranoid Park, about a teenage skateboarder's dark secret.
Actress Jane Fonda was handed a surprise lifetime achievement award by festival chief Gilles Jacob. "You are a woman who fights and wins," he told the 69-year-old Hollywood star - who stole the show on the red carpet last night with her radiance and elegance.
The international jury, led by British director Stephen Frears, selected the winners from a shortlist of 22 films, which included Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, David Fincher's Zodiac and Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights with Jude Law and Norah Jones.
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