Cannes Palme d’Or goes to female director for only the second time

Julia Ducournau’s serial killer film Titane scoops top award, while best actor and actress go to Caleb Landry Jones and Renate Reinsve

The Palme d’Or, the most prestigious of cinema festival prizes, has gone to Titane, an unconventional and violent film directed by the 37-year-old French director Julia Ducournau.

In a chaotic ceremony, the prize was announced early by mistake by the chairman of the jury, Spike Lee, who misunderstood a confusing French instruction to describe the winner of the top prize. “English!” he exclaimed afterwards in frustration, as fellow jury member Tahar Rahim, star of the recent TV series The Serpent, tried to explain what had gone wrong to Lee, the celebrated American director of films Do The Right Thing and Da Five Bloods.

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