Israeli actress Hanna Laslo receives her award at the Cannes Film Festival. (AP)
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| By: Israel Insider staff and partners |
| Published: May 22, 2005 |
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Israeli actress Hanna Laslo earned the best actress prize for her role as a gabby cabdriver in Israeli director Amos Gitai's "Free Zone," a road-trip tale through the Middle East.
The Belgian film "The Child," about a young petty crook suddenly faced with the responsibilities of fatherhood, won top honors at the Cannes Film Festival.
It was the second time a movie by sibling filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne won the prestigious Palme d'Or. Their teen drama "Rosetta" took the main Cannes prize six years ago.
The Dardenne brothers dedicated their award to French journalist Florence Aubenas and her guide Hussein Hanoun, missing since their January 5 kidnapping in Baghdad.
"Very humbly, with no pretentiousness whatsoever, maybe since the Cannes Film Festival is broadcast all over the world, it will be a little spark of news which will get through to them and maybe help them to go on hoping," said Jean-Pierre Dardenne. "And it will show their kidnappers too that we're just as obstinate as they are."
The award was presented Saturday night by Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman, who won Academy Awards in February for Clint Eastwood's boxing saga "Million Dollar Baby."
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Hanna Laslo wins best actress at Cannes
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05.22.2005
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