French director Laurent Cantet is surprise winner of festival's top prize, while British drama Hunger is named best first feature
Morality comes to the Croisette
Jason Solomons at Cannes film festival: A sense of realism illuminates the best at Cannes this year as the festival's line-up of gangsters and revolutionaries offer power without pyrotechnics
Trash Cannes
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Steven Soderbergh's epic about revolutionary Ernesto Guevara, was virile, muscular film-making, with an effortlessly charismatic performance by Benicio Del Toro in the lead role
Endless movie babble in the marché's bubble
The Cannes marché is where many buyers come to do their business. But with even high-profile films struggling to sell this year, there's little hope for the Indy knock-offs and cheap Korean chillers
Highlander to get the remake treatment
The 1986 fantasy about sword-wielding immortals is to be updated for the new millennium with a screenplay from the writers of Iron Man
