Cannes 2009
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Cannes film festival: Michael Haneke takes the Palme d'Or with The White Ribbon
Published on: May 24, 2009Mark Brown in Cannes
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 24 May 2009 21.26 BSTAustrian auteur wins his first Palme d'Or with his parable of fascism, while Charlotte Gainsbourg takes best actress award for her role in Lars von Trier's Antichrist.
It has no musical score, it's filmed in black-and-white and it's long. But Michael Haneke's German language The White Ribbon gripped audiences in Cannes and tonight took the festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or.
For many, it was the head-and-shoulders deserved winner. It tells the story of strange goings-on in a repressed and maliciously nasty northern German village shortly before the first world war. Like many films at this year's festival, it was two and a half hours long. Unlike others, it did not feel like it.
It was the Austrian auteur's first Palme d'Or, though not his first Cannes prize. He is best known in the UK for his English-language remake last year of his 1997 horror movie Funny Games, and two years before he had one of his biggest successes with Hidden, starring Juliette Binoche.
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