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The gen from Cannes
Star critic RITA DI SANTO recommends two outstanding depictions of working-class lives in England and Finland as the pick of the bunch
Ken Loach's The Old Oak (left) and Aki Kaurismaki’s Fallen Leaves (right) are the outstanding films of the festival [IMDb]

THIS year’s Cannes Film Festival jury awarded the Palme d’Or unanimously to Anatomy of a Fall by French director Justine Triet.

It is a poignant and absorbing drama about the wife of a frustrated writer charged with his murder after his death in suspicious circumstances.

While their 11-year-old son tries to make sense of what happened, it is the woman’s way of life that appears to be under examination, more than the question of guilt.

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