The Cannes jury, headed by Robert De Niro, has selected the winners of this year's competition slate, and the results are slightly surprising. In the early days of the fest two films quickly emerged as seeming front-runners for the top prize,
Lynne Ramsay's
We Need to Talk About Kevin and
Michel Hazanavicius' silent black and white film
The Artist, but the Palme d'Or went instead to
Terrence Malick's
The Tree ...