Ken Loach won his second Palme d’Or for “I, Daniel Blake “- Thibault Camus / AP / SIPA

After ten days of competition and a score of films seen, the jury chaired by George Miller made his record Sunday night. Unexpected record, maligned, which for many festival-and especially the journalist-reflects only half the wealth decette 69th edition. Back on five times to remember the festival

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A social Palme

This is a habit Cannes, as the jury foreman remettela gold Award to a film that’s not like him. After David Cronenberg who crowned Rosetta the Dardenne brothers, Tim Burton Uncle Boonmee Apichatpong Weerasethakul or Steven Spielberg Life of Adele , George Miller, the director of Mad Max all the same, so reward I, Daniel Blake , the latest film of angry young filmmaker 79 years.
 A committed Palme, Social.

“The movie carries many traditions, one of which is to present a protest cinema, cinema that highlights the people against the powerful, j hope that this tradition will continue, told Ken Loach on stage. We are approaching times of despair, the extreme right can enjoy. So we need to say anything else is possible. Another world is possible and necessary. “



” You’re the clit! “

Perhaps THE sentence of the closing ceremony of the festival … and even in general. Both a Divine Worship replica Houda Benyamina and the interjection of his Franco-Moroccan director Edward Waintrop, which selected the film to the Fortnight. A first feature punch, crowned with the Golden Camera, and a generational and female portrait on the outskirts, often compared to La Haine .

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Revelation Toni Erdmann

It was the darling