BEIJING, May 22 -- After 12 days of movie star
quality glamour, Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai's "Shanghai Dreams" received
the Jury Prize at the 58th Cannes Film Festival Saturday night.
His film is a love story set
among workers who dutifully obeyed the government's call to relocate to
factories in a remote new territory in the 1960s.
The Belgian film "The Child,"
made by sibling filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, won the Palme d'Or, top
honors at Cannes.
U.S. director Jim Jarmusch's film
"Broken Flowers," a drama starring Bill Murray as an aging Don Juan received
second grand prize.
Best director and best actor went
to Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke for "Hidden" and Tommy Lee Jones for "The
Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada."
(Source:
CRIENGLISH.com)