What do critics know anyways?

Turns out the critically praised frontrunners went home with some small prizes as the Cannes Film Festival came to a close. Babel didn't take home the Palm D'Or or the Grand Prix but managed to grab hold of a Best Director award for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu which isn't bad at all (hell, head juror Wong Kar Wai has even taken home a few of those in the past). Volver on the other hand took home Best Screenplay and Best Actress (which actually went to the entire ensemble female cast of the film). The big ones went to Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Palm D'Or) and Bruno Dumont's Flanders (Grand Prix).

So was I a litte dissapointed with the picks, yeah...but at least the films I wanted to win didn't go home empty handed.