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THE JURY at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival produced several surprises in deliberations that generally reeked of compromise.

The most baffling were the omission of No Country for Old Menfrom the awards, and, the presentation of the best actor award to Konstantin Lavronenko for his glowering one-note performance in The Banishment.