Cannes Winners Analysis: The French Did Well, The Italians Didn’t But Who’s Complaining About This World Cup Of Cinema?

During the past week in Cannes people kept asking me, ‘so who is going to win the Palme d’Or?’  I long ago gave up trying to play that guessing game. Juries do their own thing and it is often unpredictable. But no one was really predicting French director Jacques Audiard’s  Dheepan , about a created family of Sri Lankan immigrants trading one war for another when they come to start a new life in France. Audiard has previously won the Grand Prize here for A Prophet  and a…

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