<![CDATA[Cannes 2009 Day Twelve: Haneke Triumphs With Top Prize]]>

1.0 link 207204 <![CDATA[Cannes 2009 Day Twelve: Haneke Triumphs With Top Prize]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-giltz/cannes-2009-day-twelve-ha_b_207204.html While the critics agreed overwhelmingly that Un Prophete was the best film in Cannes, the 2009 Palme d'or went to Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, amid strong applause from the French and German contingent in the press. Since the head of the jury was Isabelle Hubert and she scored one of her major triumphs by starring in Haneke's brilliant, corrosive The Piano Teacher (for which she won Best Actress at Cannes), it perhaps shouldn't have been a surprise.

Un Prophete received...

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