Spanish-language film a good bet to take top Cannes prize

“With auteurs from Spain and Mexico having garnered the most applause and appreciative hallway commentary so far, handicappers are predicting that this year’s Palme d’Or will go to a Spanish-language film for the first time in nearly a half-century.

Not since Luis Buñuel’s “Viridiana” in 1961 has a Spanish or Latin American film won the top Cannes prize, but that drought could end this year given the near-unanimous acclaim for Spanish director Pedro Almodovar’s “Volver” (Return) and Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu’s “Babel.”"

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