Football scandal girl film wins top Cannes prize

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A film about a scandal that shook the French football team won one of the top prizes at the Cannes film festival.

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French director Rebecca Zlotowski arrives with French actor Henri-Noel Tabary , French actor Benoit Magimel , French actress Clotilde Courau and French-Algerian model Zahia Dehar for the screening of the film"A Hidden Life" at the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival in CannesFRANCE - A film starring the former under-age escort at the heart of a scandal that shook the French football team won one of the top prizes at the Cannes film festival on Thursday.

Zahia, now 27, plays a"glamazon" party girl who leads her 16-year-old cousin through a summer of sexual and political awakening amid the nouveau riche jet set on the French Riviera.Critics had heaped praise on the Algerian-born Dehar's performance, with the Hollywood Reporter comparing her"pouty, performative femininity" to 1960s French screen siren Brigitte Bardot.

Its head Dominique Sampiero called the film"troubling and fascinating" and said the jury wanted to reward Dehar and her"suggested figure of an escort girl who reads Duras, which makes the story a modern morality fable... a kind of 'Unbearable Lightness of Womanhood'." "Easy girl isn't pejorative, for me it's extremely positive, it's a woman who is at ease with her sexuality and is the equal of a man.Meanwhile, an animated film about a hand with a life of its own won the top prize in the parallel Critics' Week section.

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