From AwardAnnals
Results of the Festival de Cannes in the year 1999. For a ranked list of films, try the honor roll.
Rosetta
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Rosetta follows a troubled young woman as she goes through her difficult life. That is, it follows her literally: the entire film is shot with handheld cameras, usually right behind the heroine. Rosetta (Emilie Dequenne) lives in a Belgian trailer park with her alcoholic mother, making a little money selling clothes that she’s mended. When she finally gets a job and begins a friendship with a coworker, she believes she’s reaching some degree of the normal life she desperately craves. But when she loses her job, she takes turns that may ruin any chance for…
Humanité: (Humanity)
Bruno Dumont
Bruno Dumont’s (
The Life of Jesus) controversial and award-winning film follows a police detective trying to solve a brutal rape and murder of an 11 year-old girl.
