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CANNES, France The Cannes Film Festival rewarded one of its favorite directors Sunday, as Michael Haneke won the top prize for a second time with his stark film about love and death, 'Amour.'The Austrian director's powerful and understated film stars two French acting icons 85-year-old Emmanuelle Riva and 81-year-old Jean-Louis Trintignant as an elderly couple coping with the wife's worsening health.Cannes jury member Jean Paul Gaultier praised the performances of the two actors and the 'incredible connection' they established in the movie.Haneke said he made the film because 'I experienced something in my family that touched me.' He thanked his wife and in a rare personal comment said he had promised her 'we would never leave each other, like in the film.'Some viewers were surprised by the movie's frank humanity, coming from a master of tightly controlled cinema whose movies often contain sudden bursts of violence.The director said his reputation for delivering shocks was unjust.'Journalists always try to stick a label on directors,' he said. 'For a long time I've been the expert in violence.'But he said a film's style should match its subject matter, not its director, and 'this film is about love.'Haneke has brought 10 films to Cannes over the years, including 'Funny Games' and 'Hidden.' He previously won the Palme in 2009 for 'The White Ribbon,' and is only the seventh director to take the top prize twice.The festival jury awarded the second-place Grand Prize to Matteo Garrone's Italian satire 'Reality,' while Ken Loach's whiskey-tasting comedy 'The Angels' Share' won the third-place Jury Prize.Both have won Cannes prizes before Garrone took the Grand Prize for 'Gomorrah' in 2008 and Loach won the Palme d'Or in 2006 for 'The Wind That Shakes the Barley.'Mexico's C

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) says that JPMorgan Chase's $2 billion loss earlier this month reaffirms the argument for regulating Wall Street.In an interview with the Daily Beast published online on Saturday, Frank signaled his belief that if the banking fiasco occurred five years ago, there 'would have been a lot more panic and nervousness in the economy.' He spoke about the matter in the context of the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation being signed into law. The Democratic congressman added that JPMorgan's loss also 'reaffirms that derivatives are inherently risky, and even the best-run banks -- and JPMorgan is one of them -- cannot avoid the risk.'Frank made similar remarks on the matter earlier this month. 'When a supposedly responsible, well-run organization could make such an enormous mistake with derivatives, that really blows up the argument, 'Oh, leave us alone, we don't need you to regulate us,'' he said, according to the Associated Press.President Barack Obama echoed the stance articulated by Frank during a recent appearance on ABC's 'The View.' Addressing JP Morgan's loss he said, 'You could have a bank that isn't as strong, isn't as profitable, managing those same bets and we might have had to step in.' He added, 'That's why Wall Street reform is so important.'Massachusetts Democratic Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren, the brainchild of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, recently asserted that big banks 'cannot regulate themselves' and argued, 'What has happened here is not just about JPMorgan Chase.'In speaking with the Daily Beast, Frank noted, 'Ben Bernanke, Sheila Bair, and Hank Paulson -- three Bush appointees are essentially supportive of the things we re talking about here. If you go by the Treasury, you ll see the portrait outside Geithner s office of Paulson, and he takes credit for a lot of the Dodd-

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