London-born Charlotte Gainsbourg won the best actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival tonight for her over-the-top performance as a grieving mother in the Lars Von Trier gorefest Antichrist.
British thriller Fish Tank directed by British film-maker Andrea Arnold shared a special jury prize. The film , set on an East London council estate is about a 15 year-old teenager who is excluded from school. Her life is turned upside down when her mother's handsome boyfriend, played by Michael Fassbender, moves in...
Fish Tank, from BBC Films, was the only British film to win anything at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and one of only 3 films directed by women in competition. The other two were Bright Star by Jane Campion and Map of the Sounds of Tokyo by Isabel Coixet.
