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 Press and 20 Minutes . A German comedy of three hours (do not go), that shook the start of the festival and doubled the audience. Through the dysfunctional relationship between a father and his daughter, Maren Ade performs a kind of best of of this Cannes 2016. Everything is there: liberalism and globalization (as in I, Daniel Blake ), gender ( Vertical Stay, Miss ), Romania as decor ( Sieranevada , Bachelor ), plus a extraordinary woman portrait ( divine ). If Toni Erdmann will not restart with the Palme (George Miller would have hated the film), it may console themselves with
 the FIPRESCI prize of the international press

Sandra H & # XFC;. ller in Film Toni  Erdmann
Sandra Hüller in the film Toni Erdmann – HIGH AND SHORT

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The barefoot Julia Roberts

The Cannes Film Festival has no place in theaters, but also on the red carpet. As every year, many stars have mounted the steps, and sila stripped dress the top Bella Hadid has a small effect, it’s Julia Roberts assured the show. For his first time on the Croisette, she decided to have fun and shake up the protocol. Thus barefoot that the star has mounted the steps to the presentation of Money Monster , the film Jodie Foster, with George Clooney. Pierre Lescure and Thierry Fremaux may have given him the big eyes,
 she showed a big smile.

US actress Julia Roberts arrives on May 12  , 2016 for the screening of the film
US actress Julia Roberts arrives on May 12, 2016 for the screening of the film – ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT / AFP

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A whistles festival

Olivier Assayas, Xavier Dolan, Nicolas Winding Refn, Sean Penn … they are regulars from the Croisette, this has not prevented them from being copiously whistled. The jury also was booed in the press room to be rewarded Ken Loach and Xavier Dolan, where journalists were waiting Toni Erdmann , American Honey or Paul Verhoeven. But Cannes would not be Cannes without really whistles, and 20 Minutes even prepared
 a guide to be sure that his film be booed. Ready for next year

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