With the exception of a shared Best Director win (with La Bola Negra) for Fatherland, as well as a Best Actress win for the two stars of All Of A Sudden, the jury of the 79th Cannes Film Festival decided that there was not much to reward in the fest’s first six days. Instead, the second career Palme d’Or for Romanian director Cristian Mungiu and his superb Fjord; the Grand Prix for Russian dissident Andrei Zviaguintsev’s Minotaur; the Jury Prize for Bulgaria’s The Dreamed Adventure (the only female director with a win in the main competition this year); plus the
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