BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI RECIEVES HONORARY PALME D’OR

Director Bernardo Bertolucci, seventy-one, received an honorary Palme D’Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival for his contribution to film. The award-winning filmmaker, best known for Last Tango in Paris and The Conformist, has received nine academy awards but has never won the top honor at Cannes. His speech touched upon anti-Berlusconi sentiment and the ways in which 3D technology has reignited his inspiration to create films. The Associated Press reports Bertolucci saying, “It’s strange that Wim [Wenders] and [Werner] Herzog and myself, three European directors, they are a bit younger than me but coming from the same kind of school of thought, are all attracted by 3D.”