So Cannes is over for another year and many will look back on 2010 as one of the lesser years of the festival. Whether it was the recession, or the lack of any “big” movie but there was definitely something missing from the Croisette this year.
The top prize, the coveted Palme D’Or, went to Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, a movie long on title but rich in imagery and style. The Thai film about a man dying of kidney failure, features the ghost of catfish and monkeys, and it’s Terry Gillam-esque qualities are sure to have caught the eye of Jury Chair Tim Burton, himself a little on the crazy side.
Festival darlings Javier Bardem and Juliette Binoche picked up teh acting gongs, for their roles in Biutiful and Certified Copy respectively.
The full list of prizes:
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION JURY AWARDS
Palme d’Or
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Spain-Thailand-Germany-U.K.-France)
Grand Prix
Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois, France)
Director
Mathieu Amalric (On Tour, France)
Jury Prize
A Screaming Man (Mahamet-Saleh Haroun, France-Belgium-Chad)
Actor
Javier Bardem (Biutiful, Mexico-Spain) and Elio Germano (Our Life, Italy)
Actress
Juliette Binoche (Certified Copy, France-Italy-Iran)
Screenplay
Lee Chang-dong (Poetry, South Korea)
UN CERTAIN REGARD JURY AWARDS
Main Prize
Hahaha (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
Jury Prize
October (Daniel Vega, Diego Vega)
Special Prize
Adela Sanchez, Eva Bianco, Victoria Raposo, The Lips (Ivan Fund, Santiago Losa, Argentina)
OTHER MAIN JURY AWARDS
Camera d’Or
Leap Year (Michael Rowe, Mexico)
FIPRESCI AWARDS
Competition
On Tour (Mathieu Amalric, France)
Un Certain Regard
Adrienn Pal (Agnes Kocsis, Hungary)
Directors’ Fortnight
You Are All Captains (Olivier Laxe, Spain)
SHORT FILMS JURY PRIZES
Palme d’Or
Barking Island (Serge Avedikian, France)
Jury prize
Bathing Micky (Frida Kempff, Sweden)
