Cannes 2015: Baffling Set Of Prizes Take The Edge Off A Great Competition Line-up

Peter Bradshaw, Guardian Unlimited: Film
Sun, 05/24/2015 - 12:07pm

Giving the Palme d’Or to Audiard’s Dheepan may be a career recognition for a brilliant director, but it’s much less worthy of the big prize than Carol or The AssassinJacques Audiard’s Dheepan wins the Palme d’Or - as it happenedFor my money, Cannes 2015 was a vintage year. But the prizes were corked.Just as last year, the jury gave its ultimate acclaim to a brilliant director who has accumulated an overwhelmingly deserving reputation but had actually given us something less than his very best work.

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