telegraph.co.uk — Michael Haneke's desperately austere Amour, a sober exploration of the love between an elderly Parisian husband and wife as her health begins to worsen, has been awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Even more impressively, this is Haneke's second Palme d'Or in three years: he also won the top prize in 2009 for The White Ribbon.