Duration: May 11-22 Venue: Various Country: France Edition: 58th/2005 Web: Cannes film festival

Plume Noire was at the Cannes film festival and will bring you back exclusive reviews, live from the Croisette, on the French Riviera.

Jury: Emir Kusturica (director - President of the jury, Serbia-Montenegro), Tony Morrisson (screenwriter, USA), Nandita Das (actress, India), Salma Hayek (actress, Mexico), Agnes Varda (director, France), John Woo (director, China), Fatih Akin (director, Germany), Javier Bardem (actor, Spain), Benoit Jacquot (director, France).

The Golden Palm went to the brothers Dardenne for Child. [Award winners]

Battle in Heaven Surrounded by a perfume of scandal, this Battle in Heaven fails, not in the cinematographic sense, but in its discourse, a sort of mystic-religious salmagundis, which takes away its power.

Broken Flowers Jim Jarmusch has fun and his pleasure is contagious. An eccentric comedy, Broken Flowers throws a seductive 50-something on the road after he learns of his paternity via a letter.

Hidden While I'm sure cerebral director Michael Haneke was aware that his film would provoke some kind of intellectual controversy, he must also have known that with his latest offering, he was taking the risk to alienate a big part of the audience who would unavoidably misread it.

Last Days Icon or cliché? Kurt Cobain or not? Gus Van Sant takes on the myth of Kurt Cobain.

Lemming The latest opus from the Moll- Merchant duo (and a vague remake of Lost Highway), Lemming is a French film that would desperately like to be something else. Anything but French.

Where the Truth lies An adaptation of the best-selling mystery novel by Rupert Holmes, Where the Truth Lies reveals the underside of Hollywood's industry of dreams.

:: BEHIND THE SCENES: Pictures from the festival by Sandrine Marques

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