66th Festival de Cannes 2013 Movie Awards

Abdellatif Kechiche‘s lesbian romance La vie d’Adèle (Blue is the Warmest Colour) won the Palme d’Or tonight. The movie is based on a comic book by Julie Maroh.

15-year-old Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) dreams of finding the love of her life. When she meets Thomas – a dark, handsome, friendly stranger who falls for her instantly – her dream seems to have come true. But an unsettling erotic reverie upsets the romance before it begins. Adèle imagines that the mysterious, blue-haired girl (Léa Seydoux) she encountered in the street slips into her bed and possesses her with an overwhelming voluptuous pleasure. She can no longer deny her true desires – Adèle likes girls. Then the gorgeous, sensual blue-haired girl reappears, and approaches her. A passionate and chaotic love story has begun…

Actresses Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux:

Cannes 2013 Movie Awards
• Palme d’Or : Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, France)
• Grand Prix : Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen, U.S.)
• Best Director : Amat Escalante for Heli (Mexico)
• Jury Prize : Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan)
• Best Actor : Bruce Dern for Nebraska (Alexander Payne, U.S.)
• Best Actress : Bérénice Bejo for The Past (Asghar Farhadi, France-Italy)
• Best Screenplay : Jia Zhangke for A Touch of Sin (China)

The Cannes 2013 poster features Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, it’s an on-set photo taken during the filming of A New Kind of Love (Melville Shavelson, 1963), with a questionable ‘modern’ background made by a Parisian creative design agency :

This year the Cannes jury was presided over by billionaire Steven Spielberg :

The Palme d’Or award is designed by Chopard jewellery :