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Villeneuve, Egoyan win at Cannes

CANNES, France – Canadian filmmakers Atom Egoyan and Denis Villeneuve have won major prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, in advance of the awarding of the coveted Palme d’Or.

Toronto’s Egoyan, 47, took the Ecumenical Jury prize for Adoration, his multi-layered meditation on mass communication, terrorism and cultural values surrounding the revealed secrets of a Toronto high school student.

Montreal’s Villeneuve, 40, scored the Grand Prix for Best Short Film in the Critics’ Week program of avant garde works. The prize for Villeneuve’s 11-minute short Next Floor, an absurdist take on gluttony, comes with a 6,000 euro (almost $9,400) production grant toward his next film.

Egoyan was close to tears last night as he accepted the Ecumenical Jury prize, bestowed for 34 years by a multi-faith panel that honours “works of quality which touch the spiritual dimension of our existence,” according to the group’s mission statement.

The jury said Egoyan’s Adoration “presents traditional and contemporary symbols and objects to invite us to re-evaluate existing cliches about the Other or that which is foreign in our own culture and religions.”

He received the award from Alyda Faber, the Canadian on the six-person jury, then praised the jury for understanding his “very dense film. I am so overwhelmed by this prize, because … it puts the film into context.”

The other Canadian film, among the 22 competing for the Palme d’Or and other prizes awarded to close the festival tonight, is Blindness, an apocalyptic drama written by Toronto’s Don McKellar, directed by Brazil’s Fernando Meirelles.

The film given the best chance of success tonight is Clint Eastwood’s period thriller, Changeling, starring Angelina Jolie as a 1920s Los Angeles mother, whose young son is first abducted and then swapped with another boy. Jolie could win for acting, Eastwood for directing.

Benicio Del Toro, as revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in Steven Soderbergh’s Che is a shoo-in for the male acting prize.

Source: Toronto Star

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Villeneuve, Egoyan win at Cannes

CANNES, France – Canadian filmmakers Atom Egoyan and Denis Villeneuve have won major prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, in advance of the awarding of the coveted Palme d’Or.

Toronto’s Egoyan, 47, took the Ecumenical Jury prize for Adoration, his multi-layered meditation on mass communication, terrorism and cultural values surrounding the revealed secrets of a Toronto high school student.

Montreal’s Villeneuve, 40, scored the Grand Prix for Best Short Film in the Critics’ Week program of avant garde works. The prize for Villeneuve’s 11-minute short Next Floor, an absurdist take on gluttony, comes with a 6,000 euro (almost $9,400) production grant toward his next film.

Egoyan was close to tears last night as he accepted the Ecumenical Jury prize, bestowed for 34 years by a multi-faith panel that honours “works of quality which touch the spiritual dimension of our existence,” according to the group’s mission statement.

The jury said Egoyan’s Adoration “presents traditional and contemporary symbols and objects to invite us to re-evaluate existing cliches about the Other or that which is foreign in our own culture and religions.”

He received the award from Alyda Faber, the Canadian on the six-person jury, then praised the jury for understanding his “very dense film. I am so overwhelmed by this prize, because … it puts the film into context.”

The other Canadian film, among the 22 competing for the Palme d’Or and other prizes awarded to close the festival tonight, is Blindness, an apocalyptic drama written by Toronto’s Don McKellar, directed by Brazil’s Fernando Meirelles.

The film given the best chance of success tonight is Clint Eastwood’s period thriller, Changeling, starring Angelina Jolie as a 1920s Los Angeles mother, whose young son is first abducted and then swapped with another boy. Jolie could win for acting, Eastwood for directing.

Benicio Del Toro, as revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in Steven Soderbergh’s Che is a shoo-in for the male acting prize.

Source: Toronto Star

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Villeneuve, Egoyan win at Cannes

CANNES, France – Canadian filmmakers Atom Egoyan and Denis Villeneuve have won major prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, in advance of the awarding of the coveted Palme d’Or.

Toronto’s Egoyan, 47, took the Ecumenical Jury prize for Adoration, his multi-layered meditation on mass communication, terrorism and cultural values surrounding the revealed secrets of a Toronto high school student.

Montreal’s Villeneuve, 40, scored the Grand Prix for Best Short Film in the Critics’ Week program of avant garde works. The prize for Villeneuve’s 11-minute short Next Floor, an absurdist take on gluttony, comes with a 6,000 euro (almost $9,400) production grant toward his next film.

Egoyan was close to tears last night as he accepted the Ecumenical Jury prize, bestowed for 34 years by a multi-faith panel that honours “works of quality which touch the spiritual dimension of our existence,” according to the group’s mission statement.

The jury said Egoyan’s Adoration “presents traditional and contemporary symbols and objects to invite us to re-evaluate existing cliches about the Other or that which is foreign in our own culture and religions.”

He received the award from Alyda Faber, the Canadian on the six-person jury, then praised the jury for understanding his “very dense film. I am so overwhelmed by this prize, because … it puts the film into context.”

The other Canadian film, among the 22 competing for the Palme d’Or and other prizes awarded to close the festival tonight, is Blindness, an apocalyptic drama written by Toronto’s Don McKellar, directed by Brazil’s Fernando Meirelles.

The film given the best chance of success tonight is Clint Eastwood’s period thriller, Changeling, starring Angelina Jolie as a 1920s Los Angeles mother, whose young son is first abducted and then swapped with another boy. Jolie could win for acting, Eastwood for directing.

Benicio Del Toro, as revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in Steven Soderbergh’s Che is a shoo-in for the male acting prize.

Source: Toronto Star

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