61st Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or Award Winners

French director Laurent Cantet's Entre les Murs (The Class) won the Palme d'Or award at the 61st Cannes Film Festival.






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Benicio Del Toro receive the best actor award for his portrayal of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara in Steven Soderbergh's Che: The Argentine & Guerrilla, and Sandra Corveloni won the best actress for her work as an overworked mother in Brazilian film - Linha de Passe (Line of Passage) - set in Sao Paulo.


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Turkey's filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan won the Best Director award for his film - Three Monkeys, a dark tale of family secrets.

Steven Soderbergh's Che: The Argentine & Guerrilla @ Cannes Film Festival

Steven Soderbergh's Che: The Argentine and Guerrilla premiere at the 61st edition of Cannes Film Festival. The Argentine and Guerrilla are two-part, biography films about Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and based on Jon Lee Anderson's Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life novel.



Synopsis of The Argentine: Che Guevara and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the US-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.



Synopsis of Guerilla: Biographical film on the latter years of Che Guevara, a controversial South American revolutionary who was murdered by the Bolivian army in 1967.


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The video of Che: The Argentine and Guerrilla cast discussing their film at Cannes Film Festival -

Halle Berry & Benicio Del Toro @ Things We Lost In The Fire

Halle Berry, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Pitt, Sam Mendes, Susanne Bier and Alison Lohman attend Things We Lost In The Fire premiere at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in New York City.












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Halle Berry & Benicio Del Toro

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Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro sell Danish director Susanne Bier's Things We Lost In The Fire on The Oprah Winfrey Show under the guise of discussing Halle's personal life.

Things We Lost in the Fire opens October 19.

Susanne Bier's Things We Lost In The Fire

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Things We Lost In The Fire is Danish director Susanne Bier's first American film, and stars academy award winners Benicio Del Toro and Halle Berry.