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Jane Fonda accepts lifetime achievement award in Cannes
(AFP)
Updated: 2007-05-28 09:58
US actress Jane Fonda smiles as she poses upon arriving at the Festival
Palace in Cannes, southern France. [AFP]
The 60th Cannes film festival, which wrapped up Sunday, awarded a Palme
d'Or for lifetime achievement to veteran US actress and activist Jane
Fonda over the weekend.
The exceptional Golden Palm prize, awarded by festival chief Gilles
Jacob, had only been awarded three times before since 1946, to French
directors Alain Resnais and Gerard Oury and the French actress Jeanne
Moreau.
Jacob presented the surprise honour at a dinner after a screening of
Sidney Lumet's classic "12 Angry Men" as a tribute to her late father
Henry, who died in 1982.
"I never imagined that the Cannes film festival would honour a person who
was spied on and tracked by the FBI, a person who has a 20,000-page
file," Jacob noted with a touch of irony, referring to her campaign
against the Vietnam war, and later the US invasion of Iraq.
"You are a woman who fights and wins."
A visibly moved Fonda, 69, said she was "overwhelmed" by the special
prize.
"I have the feeling my father is with me tonight. The whole Fonda family
thanks you," she said in French.
"He loved progressive films and those films taught me important things:
justice, democracy.... I feel inspired by and proud of the heritage he
left us."
The two-time Oscar winner was accompanied at the dinner by her daughter
by Roger Vadim, Vanessa.
US director Robert Rodriguez said during the festival that he has signed
on to remake Fonda's iconic cult hit "Barbarella."
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