French actress Berenice Bejo
on Sunday fought back emotion as she won best actress at the Cannes Film
Festival for her turn in Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's film "The
Past" for which she turned down Hollywood parts.
Bejo, 36, who was catapulted
to international stardom with the hit French silent movie "The
Artist", plays a wife who asks her estranged husband to return from Iran
to finalise their divorce.
After the ceremony, the
actress said she was touched by the award but felt uncomfortable at the idea of
taking credit for Oscar winner Farhadi's Paris-set family drama.
"It is special to get a
best performance prize; it is for me and I cannot imagine getting something
just for me.
"I would be nothing if
there weren't other actors, the director photography, and all the members of
the crew," she told reporters.
"It is as if the film is
being reduced just to me and I can't envision that," she added, speaking in
French.
The actress -- who was born in
Argentina and speaks fluent Spanish as well as English -- is married to Michel
Hazanavicius, director of "The Artist" which swept the 2012 Oscars
with five awards including Best Picture.
Speaking earlier in the festival,
she said she received offers from Hollywood on the back of the success of
"The Artist".
But she said the chance to
keep working in Paris with "one of the world's best directors" was
more tempting.
She said the shifting
perceptions in Farhadi's films, where things are never quite what they seem,
had drawn her to the character of Marie.
"For an actress it was
quite an extraordinary experience -- things appear true and then turn out to be
completely different," she said. (Source)
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