Cannes Goes for Blue

I remember someone telling me earlier this month that emerald green is the color of the year, but the 65th Cannes Film Festival would beg to differ.

The festival’s jury, led by Steven Spielberg, has decided blue is much more It.

As in Blue Is the Warmest Color, the film they announced as the winner of the Palme d’Or yesterday. Directed by Adbellatif Kechiche, the film is a sexually explicit coming-of-age lesbian drama starring Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol).

In other Cannes kudos news, the Grand Prix went to the Coen brothers for Inside Llewyn Davis, while acting awards went to Bruce Stern and Bérénice Bejo (The Artist), for their respective turns in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska and The Past.

Photo: NordPasDeCalais.fr.