The Cannes Film Festival ended on Sunday night with the presentation of the Palme D’Or to The Class – a year in the life of one class of 14-year-olds in a Paris high school – and all the critics are in shock. The jury, headed by Sean Penn, got it absolutely right for a change. Most had assumed Penn and fellow jurors would be motivated by earnest political motives in their choices, with the dull Che tipped by many to win, but the doubters were proved wrong. The best two films in Cannes were The Class and Italian mafia drama Gomorra, and these won the Palme D’Or and runner-up Grand Prix Du Jury. Clint Eastwood, director of Angelina Jolie child-abduction true story Changeling, won a special prize, as did actress Catherine Deneuve. The only big jurors’ error was awarding the Actor prize to Benicio Del Toro for Steven Soderbergh’s interminable two-parter Che; it should have gone to Italian actor Toni Servillo for political satire Il Divo.