Love film a 2nd win for Cannes director

Michael Haneke won the Cannes Film Festival's top trophy for a second time with his film about love and death, Amour (Love).

Haneke said he made the film because "I experienced something in my family that touched me."

The festival jury awarded the second-place Grand Prize to Matteo Garrone's Italian satireReality and Ken Loach's whiskey-tasting comedy The Angels' Share won the third-place Jury Prize during the awards gala on Sunday.

Carlos Reygadas was named best director for his surrealism-tinged story of a Mexican family, Post Tenebras Lux.

Acting prizes went toMads Mikkelsen as a man ostracized by his small-town community when he is accused of child abuse in The Hunt, and jointly to Cristina Flutur and Cosmina Stratan for Romanian movie Beyond the Hills.

Cristian Mungiu's drama of love and faith in a remote Romanian monastery, also won the award for best screenplay while Benh Zeitli's Beasts of the Southern Wild won the Camera d'Or for best first film.

Haneke's powerful and understated film stars two French acting icons85-year-old Emmanuelle Riva and 81-year-old Jean-Louis Trintignantas an elderly couple coping with the wife's worsening health.

Haneke, who was born in Germany but retains Austrian citizenship, previously won Cannes' top prize in 2009 for The White Ribbon.He's spent much of his time making films in Franceincluding Cach, Time of the Wolf and Code Unknown.

The winners were chosen by a jury, led by Italian director Nanni Moretti, that included actors Ewan McGregor and Diane Kruger, Americanfilmmaker Alexander Payne and fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier.

The 12-day festival is wrapping up Sunday in the French Riviera resort.