Swedish satire The Square wins Palme d'Or

The Square, a Swedish movie about the curator of a museum filled with grotesquely pretentious conceptual art has been awarded the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Sofia Coppola won best director for The Beguiled, Joaquin Phoenix was named best actor for You Were Never Really Here and Diane Kruger best actress for German language movie In the Fade.

Originally published as Swedish satire The Square wins Palme d'Or