Sofia Coppola Made History At Cannes As The First Woman To Take This Honor In 56 Years

Sofia Coppola just won Best Director at Cannes for her new film The Beguiled , a feminist remake of the 1971 Clint Eastwood film. Coppola is only the second woman in the history of the French film festival to win this prize. The first woman to win Best Director was Soviet filmmaker Yuliya Solntseva for her 1961 film The Chronicle of Flaming Years. As Indiewire pointed out, this win is just desserts for Coppola who last competed for the Palme d'Or in 2006 with Marie Antoinette, which was famously...