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Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s poignant film Shoplifters, described as “a modern day Oliver Twist”, has won the Palme d’Or top prize at Cannes.
Cate Blanchett who headed the film festival’s jury of five women and four men said that it had been “bloody hard” to select a winner.
“But in the end I think we were completely bowled over by how intermeshed the performances were with the directorial vision,” she said of Shoplifters.
US director Spike Lee received the runner-up Grand Prix for BlacKkKlansman, based on the true story of an African-American police officer who managed to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
Blanchett said the film, which explicitly links the 1970s tale and white nationalism in the Donald Trump era, “blew us out of the cinema”.
Nadine Labaki, a female director from Lebanon, won the Jury Prize – effectively the bronze medal – for Capharnaum, a realist drama about childhood neglect in the slums of Beirut.
Italian actress Asia Argento used a speech at the ceremony to take aim at the film industry as she labelled Cannes Harvey Weinstein’s “hunting ground”.
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Sky News
