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Thai Film Wins Top Prize at Cannes

   VOA News 23 May 2010
   Director  Apichatpong Weerasethakul poses after winning the Palme dâOr
   at  the  63rd international film festival, in Cannes, southern France,
   23 May 2010

Photo: AP

   Director  Apichatpong Weerasethakul poses after winning the Palme dâOr
   at  the  63rd international film festival, in Cannes, southern France,
   23 May 2010

   An  unusual  film  from  Thailand with an unusual name has won the top
   prize at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
   The  jury  awarded  the  Golden Palm to the film Uncle Boonmee Who Can
   Recall His Past Lives.  It is a surreal story of a dying man who sees
   ghosts, monkeys, bugs and catfish.
   Director   Apichatpong  Weerasethakul  thanked  those  he  called  the
   "spirits  and ghosts" in Thailand who he says made it possible for him
   to be in France.
   The  Grand  Prix  for  runner-up went to Of Gods and Men from director
   Xavier  Beauvois  of France.  That film is based on the true story of
   seven French monks beheaded during Algeria's civil war in 1996.
   The  Jury  Prize  for the third best film in the competition went to A
   Screaming  Man,  directed  by  Mahamat-Saleh  Haroun  of Chad.  South
   Korea's  Lee  Chang-Dong  won  the  Best Screenplay award for his film
   Poetry.
   Other  winners include France's Mathieu Amalric for best director, and
   Javier Bardem and Elio Germano, who shared the Best Actor prize.

   Juliette  Binoche won the Best Actress award for her role in Certified
   Copy, by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami.

   Some information for this report was provided by AFP and Reuters.

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