The Cannes Film Festival Blog

FEATURE FILMS Palme d'Or LUNG BOONMEE RALUEK CHAT (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives) directed by Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL Grand Prix DES HOMMES ET DES DIEUX (OF GODS AND MEN) directed by Xavier BEAUVOIS Award for Best Director Mathieu AMALRIC for TOURNÉE (ON TOUR) Award for Best Screenplay LEE Chang-dong for POETRY Award for Best Actress Juliette BINOCHE in COPIE CONFORME (CERTIFIED COPY) directed by Abbas KIAROSTAMI Award for Best Actor Ex-aequo Javier BARDEM in BIUTIFUL directed by Alejandro GONZÁLEZ IÑÁRRITU Elio GERMANO in LA NOSTRA VITA (OUR LIFE) directed by Daniele LUCHETTI Jury Prize UN HOMME QUI CRIE (A screaming man) directed by Mahamat-Saleh HAROUN SHORT FILMS Palme d'Or - Short Film CHIENNE D'HISTOIRE (BARKING ISLAND) directed by Serge AVÉDIKIAN Jury Prize - Short Film MICKY BADER (BATHING MICKY) directed by Frida KEMPFF

The Housemaid : "his high-end softcore thriller is juicily watchable from start to over-the-top finish" Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps : "shrewdly opportunistic, glibly entertaining sequel"

The Director of this year's Cannes Film Festival Opening Film "Robin Hood" will not be able to make it to Cannes. Ridley Scott, whose past successes include the multi-award winner "Gladiator", has not yet recovered from a knee operation so will miss the glamorous opening on the red carpet in Cannes (see also Cannes Festival Opening Film "Robin Hood": Review, Trailer )

It has just been announced that Ken Loach's "Route Irish" has been added to the Cannes Film Festival competition line-up. Movie is described as an " Iraq drama".

Review "Featuring no beating heart or compelling raison d’etre" according to Todd McCarthy, former head-critic at Variety, now blogging at Indiewire Trailer ]

Feature films (22) -------------------------- A alegria - The Joy - Brazil - 1h46 (2010)- Felipe Bragança, Marina Meliande All Good Children - Irland, Belgium, France - 1h20 (2010) - Alicia Duffy Alting bliver godt igen - Everything Will Be Fine - Denmark, Sweden, France - 1h30 (2010) - Christoffer Boe Año bisiesto - Leap Year - Mexico - 1h32 (2010) - Michael Rowe Benda Bilili ! - France - 1h25 (2010) - Renaud Barret - Florent de la Tullaye Cleveland contre Wall Street - Cleveland Versus Wall Street - Swiss, France - 1H38 (2010) - Jean-Stéphane Bron Des filles en noir - Young Girls In Black - France - 1h25 (2010) - Jean Paul Civeyrac Ha’Meshotet - Le Vagabond - Israel - 1h26 (2010) - Avishai Sivan Illégal - Illegal - Belgium, Luxembourg, France - 1h30 (2010) - Olivier Masset-Depasse La casa muda - The Silent House -Uruguay - 1h19 (2010) -Gustavo Hernández La mirada invisible - The Invisible Eye - Argentina, France, Spain - 1h37 (2010) - Diego Lerman Le quattro volte - Italy, Germany, S...

COMPETITION ---------------------- Feature films Armadillo - Janus Metz (Denmark) Bedevilled - Cheol-soo JANG (South Korea) Belle épine - Rebecca Zlotowski (France) Bi, dung so ! (Bi, Don’t Be Afraid) The Myth of the American Sleepover - David Robert Mitchell (USA) Sandcastle - BOO Junfeng (Singapore) Sound of Noise- Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjärne Nilsson (Sweden - France) Short films A distração de Ivan - Cavi Borges & Gustavo Melo (Brazil) Berik - Daniel Joseph Borgman (Denmark) The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Lion- Alois Di Leo (UK) Deeper Than Yesterday - Ariel Kleiman (Australia) Love Patate - Gilles Cuvelier (France) Native Son - Scott Graham (UK) Vasco - Sébastien Laudenbach (France) SPECIAL SCREENINGS ------------------------------------- Feature films Opening Night Le Nom des gens (The Name of Loves) - Michel Leclerc (France) Copacabana - Marc Fitoussi (France) Rubber - Quentin Dupieux (France) Screening with the support of the Cannes Film Festival Women Are H...