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Cannes Film Festival 2010: Ecumenical Jury Prize Winner

The Ecumenical Jury Prize Winner at the Cannes Film Festival for 2010 was Des hommes et des Dieux / Of Gods and Men. Of Gods and Men is directed by Xavier Beauvois and stars Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin, and Philippe Laudenbach. Of Gods and Men‘s plot synopsis: The recounting of the events that led to the horrific massacre of a group of Trappist monks by fundamentalists in civil war-torn Algeria in the mid-’90s.

Ecumenical Special Mentions went to Mike Leigh’s Another Year, starring Jim BroadBent and Ruth Sheen as an aging couple, and Lee Chang-dong’s Poetry, in which an older woman starts to see life differently after she begins taking a poetry class.

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Source: AltFilmGuide

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Rollo Tomasi

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, TV show, short film, Blu-ray, and 4K-Ultra reviews. His reviews are published in IMDb's External Reviews and in Google News. Previously you could find his work at Empire Movies, Blogcritics, and AltFilmGuide. Now you can find his work at FilmBook.
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