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| School movie wins Cannes honour | School movie wins Cannes honour |
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| French movie The Class, about life in a tough Paris school, has won the coveted Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. | French movie The Class, about life in a tough Paris school, has won the coveted Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. |
| The prize, awarded by a jury headed by Sean Penn, came at the end of the world's most prestigious film festival. | The prize, awarded by a jury headed by Sean Penn, came at the end of the world's most prestigious film festival. |
| Directed by Laurent Cantet, The Class uses real students and teachers to chronicle a year in their lives. | Directed by Laurent Cantet, The Class uses real students and teachers to chronicle a year in their lives. |
| Hunger, a portrayal of the last six weeks of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands' life, took the Camera d'Or prize for best first feature film. | Hunger, a portrayal of the last six weeks of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands' life, took the Camera d'Or prize for best first feature film. |
| Benicio Del Toro won best actor for his lead role in Steven Soderbergh's biopic of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara. | Benicio Del Toro won best actor for his lead role in Steven Soderbergh's biopic of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara. |
| "I'd like to dedicate this to the man himself, Che Guevara," he told the audience. | "I'd like to dedicate this to the man himself, Che Guevara," he told the audience. |
| Del Toro won the best supporting actor Oscar for starring in Soderberg's 2000 movie Traffic. | |
| Brazilian star Sandra Corveloni won best actress for playing a pregnant mother of four in Sao Paolo in Line of Passage. | Brazilian star Sandra Corveloni won best actress for playing a pregnant mother of four in Sao Paolo in Line of Passage. |
| CANNES HONOURS Palme d'Or - The ClassGrand Prix - GomorrahSpecial prizes - Clint Eastwood and Catherine DeneuveBest director - Nuri Bilge Ceylan for Three MonkeysJury prize - Il Divo directed by Paolo Sorrentino Best actor - Benicio del Toro in CheBest actress - Sandra Corveloni in Line of PassageBest screenplay - Lorna's Silence by Jean Pierre and Luc DardenneCamera d'Or - Hunger Clint Eastwood and Catherine Deneuve won lifetime achievement awards at the French festival's closing ceremony. | |
| Eastwood had been tipped as a possible winner of the Palme d'Or for Changeling, his missing child drama starring Angelina Jolie. | |
| 'Moving movies' | |
| Penn praised the standard of films in competition at Cannes. | |
| "There was a field of such powerful, emotional, moving movies and performances," he said. | |
| "There were so many times that we thought it just can't get better." | |
| The Class - based on an autobiographical novel by young teacher Francois Begaudeau - was praised by Penn as "an amazing, amazing film". | |
| Director Cantet - who was joined on stage by his teenage cast - said he aimed to make a film that was "a reflection of French society - multiple, many-faceted, complex". | |
| "Sometimes also with friction that the film does not try to cover up," he added. | |
| Italian mafia movie Gomorrah, set in Naples and based on a novel by Roberto Saviana, took the Grand Prix runner-up prize. | |
| The third place jury prize went to Il Divo, Paolo Sorrentino's portrait of the country's former prime minister, Giulio Andreotto. | |
| After the awards ceremony, the festival closed with the premiere of Barry Levinson's What Just Happened? - a tale of a fading Hollywood producer trying to lift his career, starring Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis and Sean Penn. |