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This year’s Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival goes to Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord

By Steve Seigh

Posted 2 months ago

This year’s Cannes Film Festival officially wrapped on Saturday with a star-studded awards ceremony for the best and brightest films and stars of the annual celebration. There were many winners, but the biggest prize of the evening, the Palme d’Or, went to Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord (read our review here), starring Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan as Romanian religious parents who relocate to a small Norwegian village and find themselves accused of child abuse. With this win, Mungiu is the proud owner of two Palme d’Or awards, having won in 2007 for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, a film focusing on illegal abortion in Communist-era Romania.

Minotaur and Fatherland make a splash

Elsewhere at the fest, Andreï Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur, a reworking of Chabrol’s The Unfaithful Wife as a domestic thriller set against contemporary Russia, took the runner-up prize, the Grand Prix. Best directing went to Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, the co-directors of La Bola Negra, starring Penelope Cruz and Glenn Close, and Pawel Pawlikowski for Fatherland (read our review here), a chilling film following novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller), who return to a post-war Germany after years of exile in America.

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