{"id":4269,"date":"2013-05-27T00:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/lesbian-love-story-wins-palme-dor-at-cannes\/"},"modified":"2013-05-27T00:26:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T00:26:00","slug":"lesbian-love-story-wins-palme-dor-at-cannes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/lesbian-love-story-wins-palme-dor-at-cannes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesbian love story wins Palme d\u2019Or at Cannes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On a day in Paris, France that saw tens of thousands marched through Paris to protest a new gay marriage law, the sexually graphic lesbian love story “Blue is the Warmest Colour” on Sunday scooped the top Palme d’Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n

French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche’s three-hour film set Cannes abuzz with its explicit unsimulated sex scenes and has made a star out of one of its lead actresses Adele Exarchopoulos.<\/p>\n

Head of the jury Steven Spielberg, announcing the prize, said the jury was this year taking the unusual step of honouring three people with the award — Kechiche, Exarchopoulos and the other lead actress Lea Seydoux, who all went on stage to accept the accolade.<\/p>\n

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French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche (C) poses on stage on May 26, 2013 with his Palme d’Or, flanked by French actresses Lea Seydoux (L) and Adele Exarchopoulos,<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the stars of Hollywood’s 1970s golden age, Bruce Dern, won the best actor prize Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival for his performance in Alexander Payne’s “Nebraska”.<\/p>\n

In the recession-era road movie, the 76-year-old Dern plays an alcoholic father who believes he has won a million-dollar sweepstake.<\/p>\n

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French actress Berenice Bejo on Sunday won the prize for best actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s film “The Past”.<\/p>\n

Bejo, who made her name in the hit French silent movie “The Artist”, plays a wife who asks her estranged husband to return from Iran to finalise their divorce in the Paris-set family drama.<\/p>\n

Mexico’s Amat Escalante won the best director prize at the Cannes Film Festival Sunday for the ultra-violent “Heli” about his country’s blood-drenched drug wars.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old filmmaker showed a family trapped in a brutally vicious circle of crime and revenge, with torture scenes that left some queasy viewers running for the aisles.<\/p>\n

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