This year’s Certain Regard displayed films from many international auteurs–Korea’s Bong Joon-ho, Iran’s Bahman Ghobadi, Romania’s Cristian Mungiu and Corneliu Porumboiu, Japan’s Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose films received deserved attention.
Police, Adjective
Porumboui’s much-admired “Police, Adjective,” about a cop’s reluctant surveillance of a pot-smoking teen, won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize, adding to a Fipresci award earlier Saturday as best film in the sidebar.
Two other acclaimed films shared a Special Prize:
French director Mia Hansen-Love’s Father of My Children, a painful record of the suicide of an indie producer.
Bahman Ghobadi’s section opener No One Knows About The Persian Cats, a tale of two budding musicians in Iran’s rebellious, repressed but vibrant underground rock-music scene, a film which marks a change of pace for the director.
UN CERTAIN REGARD PRIZES
“Dogtooth,” Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece)
UN CERTAIN REGARD JURY PRIZE
“Police, Adjective,” Corneliu Porumboiu (Romania)
SPECIAL PRIZE UN CERTAIN REGARD 2009
“No One Knows About The Persian Cats,” Bahman Ghobadi (Iran) and “Father of My Children,” Mia Hansen-Love (France).
