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A Robert De Niro-led-jury has adjudged Dunst as the best actress for Lars von Trier’s Melancholia at the Cannes Film Festival.
Updated : Nov 21, 2013, 01:44 PM IST
A Robert De Niro-led-jury has adjudged Kirsten Dunst as the best actress for Lars von Trier’s Melancholia at the Cannes Film Festival.
The 29-year-old actress thought her chances of winning at Cannes were dimmed after von Trier was banned from the festival for telling a press conference that he understood Hitler and that he 'was a Nazi'.
His comments had sent shock waves through the film world.
“I kept thinking 'Lars, shut up',” Kirsten told the Daily Mail.
“He's a great filmmaker who, sometimes I feel should let his films speak for themselves,” she added.
In Melancholia, Dunst portrays newly-wed bride Justine who instantly regrets her marriage while at the same time the planet Earth is on collision course with another planet.