The 63rd annual Cannes Film Festival was held from May 12 to May 23,2010 in Cannes, France.Here are the description of the films that won the major award categories.
1.Palme d'Or Award
Film : Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Director :Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Country :Thailand
Plot Overview : The film centers on the last days in the life of its title character,Boonmee. Together with his loved ones – including the ghost of his dead wife and his lost son who has returned in a non-human form – Boonmee explores his past lives as he contemplates the reasons for his illness.
2.Grand Prix Award
Film :Of Gods and Men
Director : Xavier Beauvois
Country : France
Plot Overview :It centers around an actual event in 1996, when seven French Roman Catholic religious order of contemplative monks monks were kidnapped and beheaded in Algeria. The Armed Islamic Group of Algeria claimed full responsibility for the incident, but according to documents from French secret services it is possible that the killing was a mistake carried out by the Algerian army during a rescue attempt.The drama focusses on those monks who stand up for their beliefs when confronted by fundamentalists.
3.Special Jury Prize:
Film :A Screaming ManDirector: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Country :Republic of Chad
Synopsis :Set in perennially war-torn Chad Adam, the protagonist, is a fifty-something former swimming champion, known to everyone as "Champ," who happily reigns, as pool boy, over the swimming pool at a local resort which has been taken over by the Chinese. When management decides to downsize, he is laid off from the beloved job that has given so much status and meaning to his life . When his equally beloved son Abdel takes his place, jealousy is created .In the meantime, Adam is being pressured by local authorities to contribute to the government's war effort against the ever-present rebels, and because he has no money to give them, they "draft" (kidnap) Abdel into the army. Torn by conflicting desires, Adam doesn't try to protect his son
4.Best Director :
Dir :Mathieu AmalricFilm :Tournée (On Tour)
Country :France
Plot Overview :Formerly successful television producer Joachim Zand returns from America to his native France, where he previously has left everything behind, including friends, enemies and his own children. In his company is a burlesque striptease troupe whom he has promised a grand performance in Paris.Together they tour the French port cities, staying at cheap hotels and making success along the way. Old conflicts are however reignated upon the return to the French capital.
5.Best Screenplay:
Film :PoetryDir and Screenplay :Lee Chang-dong
Country :South Korea
Plot Overview :It tells the story of a suburban woman in her 60s who begins to grow an interest for poetry while struggling with Alzheimer's disease and her irresponsible grandson.
6.Camera d'Or (First-Time Filmmaker) Award:
Film :Año Bisiesto
Director : Michael Rowe
Country :Mexico
Synopsis:A lonely Mexican woman with some major intimacy issues goes on a one-month sex spree .Freelance business journo Laura through her solemn routine of eating, watching TV, looking
out the window and talking on the phone with her mother.But such details take on added significance as the narrative slides into darker waters, beginning with the first time Laura brings a guy home and the two have rough but passionless sex.This routine is repeated several times with different men, and it's not until Laura meets Arturo , whose taste for violent coitus seems to be Laura's cup of tea. Some fairly disturbing sex scenes may be a turnoff to high-brow arthouse crowds, but patient viewers will be rewarded with a conclusion that can only come from its character's intense trial by fornication.7.Best Leading Actor (Tie):
1.Actor :Javier BardemDir:Alejandro González Iñárritu
Film :Biutiful
Country :Spain
Synopsis :Biutiful is the story of Uxbal. Uxbal is a person who sort of deals outside-of-the-law in Barcelona. He helps a group of Chinese immigrants work illegal jobs that pay under the table which provide knock-off products that Senegalese immigrants then sell illegally on the streets. He doesn't deal in drugs anymore, but that was once part of his past life. His wife is a prostitute with bipolar disorder and he has two children whom he loves very much. But he soon discovers that he may not be alive much longer and we're taken on an emotional journey after he learns that news. But that's not the only big problem he encounters.
2.Actor :Elio GermanoFilm : La Nostra Vita
Dir: Daniele Luchetti.
Country :Italy
Synopsis :Claudio is a building site foreman who lives with his wife Elena and his two young sons.Elena is pregnant again, but she dies in childbirth, and Claudio is knocked sideways. He’s already had a shock when he finds the body of a Romanian illegal immigrant worker on the building site. Using the cover-up of the Romanian worker’s death as a blackmail chip, Claudio convinces construction king Porcari to give him the contract on a new residential block in Rome’s northern suburbs, which needs to be finished in record time.He raises the money and sinks part of it into flashy toys for his kids .Claudio uses consumerism to assuage his grief and guilt. Things, of course, spiral before they get any better.
8.Best Leading Actress:
Juliette BinocheFilm :Certified Copy
Dir: Abbas Kiarostami
Country : France
Plot :The story is set in Tuscany and focuses on a French art gallery owner, played by Juliette Binoche, who together with a man she just met pretends to be a long-married couple.James Miller is a writer who's just published a book entitled Certified Copy, and he's giving a lecture in Italy to present the work.Juliette Binoche's character, only named "She", is able to listen to a few minutes of the lecture before her young son interrupts her. She heads off to a cafe with him, passing along her number in the hopes that James will give her a call. He does, and they spend a day together, discussing everything under the sun dealing with love, aging, and marriage.
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