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31 May 2012 7:05 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »

As much as people have quibbles with (much more democratically voted-on) awards like the Oscars, the decisions by juries at film festivals tend to be even more contentious. Usually drawn from practitioners and actors, with a few other curious participants in there as well, jurors often come in with their own likes, dislikes and agendas, and in the absence of a unanimous choice, often end up settling for compromises.

Indeed, this year's Cannes Film Festival jury president Nanni Moretti said, after the awards were unveiled this past weekend, that none of the them were unanimously voted for (word is Andrea Arnold in particular was a fervent opponent of Leos Carax's "Holy Motors"). That being said, their Palme D'Or winner was a popular one: while a few critics were rooting for "Holy Motors," almost everyone was delighted that Michael Haneke's "Amour" picked up the prize (his second in four years, »

- Oliver Lyttelton

18 April 2012 6:43 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Andrew Pulver reveals the sixth of seven films to be offered for free to Guardian Extra members through Curzon on Demand

Krzysztof Kieślowski's dream-fable of women's parallel lives recalls a time of unapologetically highbrow film-making

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Not so long ago, in the early 1990s in fact, art cinema actually mattered – far more than thrillers with TV-show-quoting hitmen or superheroes in tight trousers. Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski was then the leading figure in what we now realise was the last gasp of a certain kind of high-minded, unapologetically intellectual film-making; its cut-off point, in retrospect, was the defeat of Kieślowski's Three Colours Red by Pulp Fiction at the 1994 Cannes film festival.

Perhaps, if we analyse the period more closely, this »

- Andrew Pulver

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