Cannes Hails Michael Haneke
Stars gather to celebrate winners of the 62nd edition of Cannes Film Festival.
After eleven days, hundreds of screenings and thousands of snaps from the paparazzi, there could only be one Palme d’Or winner. “The White Riband,” by Austrian director Michael Haneke, was awarded the prize for its depiction of the cruel punishments meted out at a rural German school before the First World War. The second-place grand prize went to French director Jacques Audiard’s prison drama “A Prophet.” The acting awards went to Charlotte Gainsbourg for Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist” and Christoph Waltz for Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds.”






