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Cannes awards Palme d'Or to Iranian revenge drama 'It Was Just an Accident'
The win hands the festival’s top prize to a director who had been banned from leaving Iran for more than 15 years.
Only a few hours before stars began streaming down the red carpet, power was restored in Cannes.“A day without electricity," sighed John C. Reilly, who sang an English-language “La Vie En Rose” at the ceremony. On X, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said the awards “show that our country’s cinema is second to none.”The jury prize was split between two films: Óliver Laxe’s desert road trip “Sirât " and Mascha Schilinski's German, generation-spanning drama “Sound of Falling.” Best actress went to Nadia Melliti for “The Little Sister,” Hafsia Herzi's French coming-of-age drama.The Belgian brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, who are two-time Palme d'Or winners, won best screenplay for their latest drama, “Young Mothers.” It's their ninth prize in Cannes. At the opening ceremony, honorary Palme d'Or recipient Robert De Niro called Trump “America's philistine president.”Other top American films in Cannes included Spike Lee's “Highest 2 Lowest” (which pulled Lee away from his New York Knicks but not out of their blue and orange color), the Christopher McQuarrie-Tom Cruise actioner “Mission: Impossible — Final Reckoning," and Ari Aster's “Eddington,” which found a divisive reaction.Panahi's win put him in rare company.
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