The British director Ken Loach has won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for the second time. Ten years after winning the Palme d’Or for his story of Irish nationalism, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, the jury – this year led by the Mad Max director George Miller – chose I, Daniel […]
The organisers of the Cannes Film Festival have announced the members of the jury that will pick this year’s Palme d’Or winner.
There’s a strong British presence, with 2-time Cannes award winning director Andrea Arnold sitting on the jury with Scotland’s favourite cinematic export, Ewan McGregor.
Andrea Arnold likes to forget about her old life, as a children’s TV presenter. For her, life began at 40, or soon thereafter, when she jumped behind the camera and picked up an Oscar for writing and directing her short film Wasp. The success of Wasp inevitably gave her the clout to start making idiosyncratic […]