Cannes 09. Awards and index.

By David Hudson on 05/24/2009

And the Palme d'Or goes to Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon."

The Jury, presided over by Isabelle Huppert (other members: Asia Argento, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, James Gray, Hanif Kureishi, Lee Chang-dong, Shu Qi, Sharmila Tagore and Robin Wright Penn) have also presented the following awards:

A Special Jury Prize to Alain Resnais ("Wild Grass").

The Grand Prix (basically the runner-up award): "A Prophet" (Jacques Audiard).

Prix de la Mise en Scene (best director): Brillante Mendoza for "Kinatay."

Prix du Scenario (best screenplay): Feng Mei for Lou Ye's "Spring Fever."

Camera d'Or (best first feature): Warwick Thornton for "Samson and Delilah." Special mention: Scandar Copti for "Ajami."

Prix du Jury: "Fish Tank" (Andrea Arnold) and "Thirst" (Park Chan-wook).

Prix d'interpretation feminine (best actress): Charlotte Gainsbourg for her performance in "Antichrist."

Prix d'interpretation masculine (best actor): Christoph Waltz for his performance in "Inglourious Basterds."

Palme d'Or (short film): Joao Salaviza's "Arena."

As John Hopewell reports for Variety, FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics, has bestowed awards on one film from each of three sections (well, four, but just three awards). From the Competition: Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon"; from Un Certain Regard: Corneliu Porumboiu's "Police, Adjective"; and from Directors' Fortnight / Critics' Week: Cherien Dabis's "Amreeka."

More awards: Un Certain Regard; awards and final roundups: Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week.

And finally - for now - an index of the coverage of the coverage of the Official Selection of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival:

Competition

"Antichrist" (Lars von Trier).
"Bright Star" (Jane Campion).
"Broken Embraces" (Pedro Almodóvar).
"Enter the Void" (Gaspar Noé).
"Face" (Tsai Ming-Liang).
"Fish Tank" (Andrea Arnold).
"In the Beginning" (Xavier Giannoli).
"Inglourious Basterds" (Quentin Tarantino).
"Kinatay" (Brillante Mendoza).
"Looking for Eric" (Ken Loach).
"Map of the Sounds of Tokyo" (Isabel Coixet).
"A Prophet" (Jacques Audiard).
"Spring Fever" (Lou Ye).
"Taking Woodstock" (Ang Lee).
"Thirst" (Park Chan-wook).
"The Time That Remains" (Elia Suleiman).
"Vengeance" (Johnnie To).
"Vincere" (Marco Bellocchio).
"The White Ribbon" (Michael Haneke).
"Wild Grass" (Alain Resnais).

Un Certain Regard

"Adrift" (Heitor Dhalia).
"Air Doll" (Hirokazu Kore-eda).
"Dogtooth" (Yorgos Lanthimos).
"Eyes Wide Open" (Haim Tabakman).
"Father of My Children" (Mia Hansen-Løve).
"Independencia" (Raya Martin).
"Irène" (Alain Cavalier).
"Mother" (Bong Joon-ho).
"No One Knows About the Persion Cats" (Bahman Ghobadi).
"Nymph" (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang).
"Police, Adjective" (Corneliu Proumboiu).
"Precious" (Lee Daniels).
"The Silent Army" (Jean van de Velde).
"Tale in the Darkness" (Nikolay Khomeriki).
"Tales From the Golden Age" (Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu and Ioana Uricaru).
"To Die Like a Man" (João Pedro Rodrigues).
"Tomorrow at Dawn" (Denis Dercourt).
"Tzar" (Pavel Lounguine).
"The Wind Journeys" (Ciro Guerra).

As for Warwick Thornton's "Samson and Delilah," I've been sprinkling entries with reviews over the past several weeks as it's played here and there in Australia; here's the roundup of reviews at the IMDb.

Out of Competition

"Agora" (Alejandro Amenabar).
"The Army of Crime" (Robert Guédiguian).
"Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky" (Jan Kounen).
"Don't Look Back" (Marina de Van).
"Drag Me to Hell" (Sam Raimi).
"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (Terry Gilliam).
"A Town Called Panic" (Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar).
"Up" (Peter Docter).

Special Screenings

"Ashes and Blood" (Fanny Ardant).
"A Brand New Life" (Ounie Lecomte).
"Jaffa" (Keren Yedaya).
"Manila" (Adolfo Alix and Raya Martin).
"My Neighbor, My Killer" (Anne Aghion).
"Petition" (Zhao Liang).
"Tell Me Who You Are" (Souleymane Cissé).
"The Thorn in the Heart" (Michel Gondry).

Let me know if anyone caught Pierre-William Glenn's "Group Portrait with Kids and Motorcycles."

Meantime, I'll be updating any or all of these individual entries for as long as it seems about right to carry on doing so.

[Photo: "The White Ribbon," Sony Pictures Classics, 2009]

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