All the actresses in Volver have won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival. (This is breaking news). And so they should. And it seems that PA has won the award for best script. Does this mean that it won't win Best Film after all, as everyone is predicting is will?

And who will care anyway, after a few hours have gone by? Whatever happens, Pedro Almodóvar is having a great few days, what with winning the Premio Príncipe de Asturias and now these prizes too. But it's a shame that his dominance means that people forget about all the other Spanish film talent. Alberto Serra, for example, whose Honor de Cavallería also played in Cannes. Don Quixote meets Waiting for Godot. Challenging stuff: superb. Entirely non-Hollywood: more Bresson, Ozu. Nobody will ever see it. But they should.

Update: Ken Loach has won the Cannes Palme d’Or for The Wind that Shakes the Barley. And although I haven't seen that film, I think I'd probably agree. Explicitly political films deserve their moments of glory too, and Ken Loach has been delivering marvellous work for years. While I'm here, I'd recommend Loach's take on the Spanish Civil War, 1995's Land and Freedom, if you can get it on DVD.

BTW: The picture of Ken Loach on the above link is not, of course, Ken Loach at all. It's Mike Leigh. It must be hard to tell these Brit indie film maker types apart from one another.