Grainne Humphreys
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No, or tanned, which proves I was working.
I've put loads of concealer on to make sure the tan doesn't come through.
Yeah, which I think was a little bit of a shock.
I mean, Christian Mungo, Romanian director, he did four months, three weeks and two days, one with that very, I think, very strong kind of film about abortion.
And he joins a very elite group of 10 filmmakers who've now won the Palme d'Or twice.
But to my mind, it was a little bit of a surprise.
I think the one that I was thinking about was Minotaur, which is a new film from Andrei Zagyatsev, a fantastic, brilliant, brilliant Russian filmmaker who'd remade a film about a husband finding out about his wife's affair.
but beautifully set against the war in Ukraine.
Just brilliantly powerful film, but won a surprise, I suppose, lesser award.
And then the other one, which was Pavel Pavlovsky, who many people loved the film.
It's a beautiful, stark black and white film about Thomas Mann, the famous German Nobel Prize winning author who travels back to Germany
post-war with his daughter and kind of discovers what he has meant to the country and what he has probably failed to do as a father and a leader.
And mostly loved because it was 83 minutes long, to be honest, in a festival where there were long, long films.
So it was a surprise, I suppose, to see that it got the top prize.
That was really, really funny, actually.