The official Jury of this 65th Festival de Cannes, presided
over by Nanni Moretti, revealed this evening the prizes winners during the
Closing Ceremony.
Bérénice Bejo hosted Audrey Tautou and Adrien Brody on the
stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière to award the Palme d’or to Michael Haneke
for his film Amour (Love).
Claude Miller’s Thérèse Desqueyroux starring Audrey Tautou,
Gilles Lellouche and Anaïs Demoustier, was screened at the end of the ceremony.
SYNOPSIS
OF AMOUR(LOVE)
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are
cultivated, retired music teachers.
Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with
her family.
One day, Anne has an attack.
The couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Michael
HANEKE
CREDITS
Michael
HANEKE - Director
Michael
HANEKE - Screenplay
Darius
KHONDJI - Cinematography
Jean-Vincent
PUZOS - Set Designer
Nadine MUSE
- Film Editor
Monika WILLI
- Film Editor
Jean-Pierre
LAFORCE - Sound
Guillaume
SCIAMA - Sound
ACTORS
Jean-Louis
TRINTIGNANT - Georges
Emmanuelle
RIVA - Anne
Isabelle
HUPPERT - Eva
Alexandre
THARAUD – Alexandre
Biography of Michael Haneke
Michael
Haneke (born 23
March 1942) is an Austrian
film director and screenwriter best known for his bleak and disturbing style.
His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has
worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social
issues in his work. Besides working as filmmaker he also teaches directing at
the Filmacademy Vienna.
At the 2009
Cannes Film Festival, his film The White Ribbon won the Palme d'Or for best
film, and at the 67th Golden Globe Awards the film won the Golden Globe Award
for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2012, his film, Love, premiered and competed
at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The film would go on to win the Palme d'Or,
making it his second win of the prestigious award in three years and putting
him in an elite club of only seven with the likes of Francis Ford Coppola. He
has made films in French, German and in English.
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