The 60th Cannes film festival, which ended on Sunday, May 28, awarded a Palme d'Or for lifetime achievement to veteran US actress and activist Jane Fonda over the weekend.The exceptional Golden Palm prize, awarded by festival chief Gilles Jacob, had only been awarded three times before since 1946, to French directors Alain Resnais and Gerard Oury and the French actress Jeanne Moreau.
Jacob presented the surprise honour at a dinner after a screening of Sidney Lumet's classic 12 Angry Men as a tribute to her late father Henry, who died in 1982.
"I never imagined that the Cannes film festival would honour a person who was spied on and tracked by the FBI, a person who has a 20 000-page file," Jacob noted with a touch of irony, referring to her campaign against the Vietnam war, and later the US invasion of Iraq.
But she possibably felt somewhat embarrassed during the closing ceremony when she was seen wearing the exact same dressing (picture above)as the one that Anne Consigny wore some days earlier in the festival. links: 24.com | Qianlong
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