The 71st Cannes Film Festival wrapped up on Saturday with a closing ceremony that not only featured blunt talk from Asia Argento but also the festival’s usual awards, Variety reports. Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-Eda took home the Palme d’Or, the highest honor at Cannes, for Shoplifters, a drama about a family whose larcenous secret causes a crisis. Spike Lee won the Grand Prix for BlacKkKlansman, a true story about a black police officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1970s. Lee, who forcefully denounced Donald Trump at one of the festival’s panels, accepted his award “on behalf of the People’s Republic of Brooklyn.” And Jean-Luc Godard, despite not attending, was given a Special Palme d’Or for his contributions to the cinema over his decades-long career.
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