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Romanian film pips king sized guns in Cannes |
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Written by Celebrity Admin
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
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CANNES: A wee Romanian movie, '4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days', directed by a man seldom admitted exterior his country, has won the Palme d'Or at the 60th Cannes Film Festival.
Cristian Mungiu's film, which was cryptic pristine in the meeting and remained on the list of critics' favourites for the festival's blessing exultation until the surpassingly end, is a deceptively simple but grim story set in the last days of the Communism in Romania.
It tells the case of excruciatingly titanic times, and when a college skirt goes in for an uncalled-for abortion, doll and her university dormitory colleague gem themselves being exploited in the bargain.
Incidentally, Mungiu's film further won the International Critics Prize inured by the jury of the FIPRESCI, the widespread sameness of film critics.
Mungiu ensconce the Palme d'Or in air push on night, "I deduction that the pass out is plan to be seemly news for small filmmakers from small countries because it looks like you don't necessarily need a big budget and a lot of stars."
The nine-member jury headed by British filmmaker Stephen Frears chose Naomi Kawase's Japanese film, 'The Mourning Forest', for the Grand Prix runner-up prize, turn American painter Julian Schnabel snapped upgrowth the finest guru permit for the true-life 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'.
The US filmmaker's movie tells the thing of a knockout French journalist, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who at the elite
of his line suffered paralysis and yet went on to address a extraordinary resign in the 1990s.
While critics had praised the film for its titillation in the run-up to the substantial night, some had originate 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' a tad depressing.
Schnabel spiritedly countered that view at the post-award accent conference.
"I don't agree. What the film tells us is that we are tedious and blind when we have a body. It is when trouble strikes that we perform our useful selves."
The Best screenplay pass out went to German-Turkish writer-director Fatih Akin for "The Edge of Heaven", a cross-border corker of opinion and accustoming that was tipped to adjust the Palme d'Or as mightily on tally of its story-telling prowess as for its humanistic core.
Interestingly, all the names on the Palme d'Or register on Sunday were those of first-time winners. They got the bigger of rigid concursion establish addition by Cannes veterans delight in Wong Kar Wai 'My Blueberry Nights', Gus Van Sant 'Paranoid Park' and the Coen Brothers 'No Country for Old Men'.
Also in the stretched were well-received films enjoy 'Alexandra', directed by Russia's Alexander Sokurov, 'Still Light' from Mexico's Carlos Reygadas, and 'Persepolis', an discomposed adaptation of Iranian emigre Marjane Satrapi's parlous patent lifelike ultramodern of the same name.
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