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variety.com - 5/25/2008
'Class' takes Cannes top prize - Entertainment News, Film News, Media
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Laurent Cantet's "The Class" (Entre les murs), an evocation of contemporary society as seen through a year's events in a Paris junior high school classroom, went to the top of the class by winning the Palme d'Or of the 61st Cannes Film Festival. Prevailing by a unanimous decision of the jury, it became the first French film to cop the festival's main prize since "Under Satan's Sun" in 1987. ...

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From the Front Row:  "Class" Wins Cannes Palme D'Or

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"Class" Wins Cannes Palme D'Or
From the Front Row — From the Front Row Movie News, Reviews, and Commentary by Matthew Lucas Sunday, May 25, 2008 "Class" Wins Cannes Palme D'Or [image] Winners in competition: PALME D'OR "The Class" GRAND PRIZE "Gomorra" SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE 61ST CANNES FESTIVAL Catherine Deneuve ( "A Christmas Tale" ) and Clint Eastwood ( "Changeling" ) JURY PRIZE "Il Divo" DIRECTOR Nuri Bilge Ceylan, "Three Monkeys" ACTOR Benicio Del Toro, "Che" ACTRESS Sandra Corveloni, "Linha de passe" SCREENPLAY Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne , "Lorna's Silence" Source: Variety http://www.wikio.com posted at 4:44 PM [image] ...

Cannes 2008 Winners: 'The Class' Takes Palme d'Or
Cinematical — Filed under: Awards, Cannes, Festival Reports, Fandom, Newsstand Earlier today, Laurent Cantent's The Class became the first French film in 20 years to win the Palme d'Or, the top prize at the 2008 Festival de Cannes. Coincidentally, we have James' review of The Class scheduled to run in just a little while; in it, he says of the film: "The Class may very well wind up taking home a nod or two from the jury here in Cannes; rest assured, if that happens, it'll represent more than just sympathy votes for a local favorite." The grand prize went to Gomorra, which James ...

While You Were Reading BWE Instead Of Cooking Out, Going Outside, Being Around People, Etc.
Best Week Ever — ... A film called "The Class" became the first French movie to win the top prize at Cannes since 1987. Weirdly, the film is just "The Faculty" dubbed into French, but it just sounds way cooler. ...

Best of the Fests: Cannes Winners
Movie Dearest — The 2008 Cannes Film Festival came to a close yesterday, which means that prizes were handed out to a bunch of films that we all really haven't heard much about yet, let alone actually seen. Nevertheless, The Class (described as "an evocation of contemporary society as seen through a year's events in a Paris junior high school classroom") became the first French film in 20 years to win the big award, the Palme d'Or, while some recognizable names did take home some of the other honors given at the famed fest's 61st annual festivities. Special Prizes went to Catherine Deneuve for A Christmas Tale and Clint Eastwood ...

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Reuters - "Entre les murs" (The Class), a film set in a tough Parisian high school, won the Palme d'Or for best picture at the Cannes festival on Sunday.