Cannes Film Festival Turns 65 And Announces Winners

2009 Palme d'Or winner Michael Haneke has added another top trophy from the Cannes Film Festival to his collection with this year's jury - led by Italian director Nanni Moretti and including actors Ewan McGregor and Diane Kruger, director Alexander Payne and fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier - judging Haneke's Amour the festival's best. While Haneke's films such as Funny Games, Hidden and The White Ribbon have earned him a reputation for violent and shocking cinema, his latest is about love (as the title suggests) but doesn't seem to signal a new fondness for lighthearted filmmaking, focusing as it does on an elderly couple struggling with the wife's declining health.

The festival jury awarded second place to Matteo Garrone's Italian satire Reality, with Ken Loach's whiskey-tasting comedy The Angels' Share taking home the third-place Jury Prize.

Other winners included Post Tenebras Lux, considered by many Cannes attendees to be the oddest film in competition, which earned Carlos Reygadas best director; Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale) who was awarded best actor for child abuse drama The Hunt; and joint best actress winners Cristina Flutur and Cosmina Stratan who both appear in Beyond The Hills, a drama about love and faith set in a monastery that also won best screenplay.