When the festival was over, Cristi Puiu returned to Bucharest with an award, called Un Certain Regard, given to the best film in a side program that frequently upstages the main competition.
Second prize in Un Certain Regard went to Ruben Östlund's emotionally-brutal drama about a father who abandons his family during an avalanche.
Now that the Palme d'Or has gone to Tunisian filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche for Blue Is the Warmest Color, and the Jury Prize in the "Un Certain Regard" sidebar to Hany Abu-Assad's Omar, cinema from MENA may be finally getting the attention it deserves -- for the great craft of its filmmakers and their ability to tell interesting stories, overflowing with human struggle and depth of heart.
This year, Francis Ford Coppola's "Tetro" was rejected for competition at Cannes; rather than be relegated to Un Certain Regard, Mr. Coppola preferred to open the Fortnight.
On Saturday the Certain Regard prize went to "Ha Ha Ha," a wistful, intricately structured comedy from the South Korean director Hong Sang-soo.
Hong Sang-Soo's Hahaha, surprise winner of the Cannes Un Certain Regard prize (given to reward innovation and distinctive achievement), offered jokes about filmmakers and filmmaking, but not everyone laughed.
The Certain Regard jury prize went to Daniel and Diego Vega's "October".
The Guardian's film critic, Peter Bradshaw, a prize juror on this year's Un Certain Regard sidebar, applauded the decision to blame the director himself "rather than his blameless and dull film … that way there is no suggestion of censorship", and urged Von Trier to make "a real apology, and not the smirking tongue-in-cheek one that made things subtly worse".
Jessie, who has a certain regard for sentimentality, wants this to be one last nice evening at home.
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