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Cannes Gives Top Prize to "The Tree of Life"

SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES
In a strong year that was nearly eclipsed by off-screen scandals, the top prize for the 64th Cannes Film Festival was given to "The Tree of life,” the long-awaited film from the American director and writer Terrence Malick. A story about transcendence that divided critics, who were alternately transported and turned off by its religious themes and elliptical storytelling, it is the first film from Malick since “The New World” (2005). The famously shy Malick did not appear to accept his award, which was introduced by Jane Fonda, who spoke in emphatic French before saying, “And maintenant, now, let's cut to the chase." The competition jury president, Robert De Niro, hurriedly announced the winner.
In addition to De Niro — who received a standing ovation on taking the stage — the jury included the actors Uma Thurman, Jude Law and Martina Gusman; the writer Linn Ullmann (the daughter of Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman); and the directors Olivier Assayas, Johnnie To and Mahamat Saleh Haroun.
It had been a strange, even surreal festival marked by ecstatic visions and doomsday fantasies and nearly hijacked when the Danish director Lars von Trier, in competition with "Melancholia,” announced at the press conference for his movie — perhaps jokingly and certainly stupidly — that he was a Nazi. He later apologised, but was thereafter declared persona non grata by the
Cannes board of directors. “Melancholia" remained in competition for the Palme d'Or in name only, and many thought that von Trier's remarks would cost one of his stars, the widely praised Kirsten Dunst, the female acting prize. But she won.
The best actor prize went to Jean Dujardin, a star of “The Artist,” a silent-cinema tribute — in black and white and with almost no dialogue — from the French director Michel Hazanavicius.
The Grand Prix, effectively the award for the Palme runner-up, was shared by “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia,” a 157-minute metaphysical road movie from the Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and “The Kid With a Bike,” a story about a child dumped by a parent, from the Belgian filmmaking brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne."
The directing prize went, somewhat surprisingly, to another Dane, Nicolas Winding Refn, for “Drive," starring Ryan Gosling as a stunt wheelman for the movies who also works as a getaway driver. The movie had its fans, especially perhaps those who were happy for a jolt of action (and English dialogue) amid all the art films.
The jury prize was given to “Polisse,” from the actress-turned-director Maiwenn, who also appears in this rather frenetic if engaging drama about cops working in a child protection unit. The Israeli writer and director Joseph Cedar deservedly won the screenwriting prize for "Footnote,” a story about warring father-and-son Talmudic scholars. Cedar wasn’t there to accept in person, having not yet returned to Cannes from Tel Aviv.
The Palme d'Or for the short film competition went to “Cross Country,” from the Ukrainian director Maryna Vroda; the Jury Prize was given to “Badpakje 46” from the Belgian director Wannes Destoop. The Camera d'Or, for a first-time director, went to “Las Acacias” from Pablo Giorgelli, which was in Critics' Week, a separate competitive parallel section. The grand prize at Critics' Week was won by "Take Shelter,” from the American director Jeff Nichols, which had first played at Sundance.