Top honour for Tree of Life at Cannes festival
Terrence Malick won the Palme d’Or in Cannes for The Tree of Life, but the 2011 film festival will be remembered above all for the shock expulsion of Danish director Lars von Trier for his Hitler joke
Cannes expels director over his Hitler remarks
The Cannes film festival expelled Danish director Lars von Trier on Thursday for jokingly calling himself a Nazi and Hitler sympathiser, leaving the world’s biggest cinema showcase in a state of shock