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Cannes continues its Love affair with Haneke

Cannes continues its Love affair with Haneke

The Austrian director Michael Haneke has won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for the second time in four years.
His French-language drama Love — about an elderly couple learning to cope with the wife’s stroke — has beaten off

Loach condemns middle-class censors

Loach condemns middle-class censors

Promoting his latest feature, The Angels’ Share,his eleventh in competition here at Cannes, one of Britain’s most acclaimed – if controversial – film-makers, Ken Loach, has launched an outspoken attack on the British Board of Film Classification.
The film, about how

Wes Anderson to open Cannes 2012

Wes Anderson to open Cannes 2012

The organisers of the Cannes Film Festival have chosen the star-studded latest feature from the idiosyncratic Wes Anderson to open this year’s event.
Moonrise Kingdom boasts a cast including Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Harvey Keitel and