The son’s room wins Palme D’or

The Son’s Room, Italian director Nanni Moretti’s stirring account of a family whose happy life is shattered by the death of a teenage son, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival tonight.

The Grand Prize, the festival’s second-highest honour, went to The Piano Teacher, Austrian director Michael Haneke’s dark tale of a music instructor seduced by a student.