Eleven days of pomp and circumstance wrapped up Saturday night with some big awards at the closing ceremonies of the 67th Cannes Film Festival.
The much coveted Palme d’Or prize was snagged by the longest film at the fest (3 hrs 6 min.), Turkish drama Winter Sleep. Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan dedicated his award “to the young people of Turkey who have lost their lives during the last year”;.
Canada’s own Xavier Dolan shared the Jury Prize for his film Mommy. The other Jury Prize winner? French director Jean-Luc Godard. Not too shabby for a 25 year old kid from Montreal.
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The always-stunning Julianne Moore picked up the Best Actress award for her much-applauded role as a narcissistic actress in David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars. The award for Best Actor went to Brit Timothy Spall in Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, a biopic about artist JMW Turner.
