This year's Cannes Film Festival has been one of the most memorable for years. With some great movies, political scandal, and a shocking case of professional suicide at a press conference, it's been a wild fortnight. Here are some of the best moments:

1. Screening of The Tree of Life - Director Terrence Malick is legendary for his privacy: he's like one of those rare animals in Indonesia, sightings are news in themselves. He was here in Cannes somewhere, but he didn't come to the Press Conference for his film, and he didn't go to the ceremony to receive the Palme. Instead we had Brad Pitt leading the film's team. There was so much build-up for this movie, it was always going to be tough to live up to the expectations. In the end we got a very strange musing on life, families, and eternity. An elderly lady sitting next to me finally cracked after around thirty minutes of meteorites, dinosaurs and jellyfish, asked in a stage whisper "This is the Tree of Life isn't it?" The reaction to the film was almost perfectly split between one half of the audience cheering and the other half booing.

2. Lars von Trier - He likes to be provocative, his films typically contain scenes of perversion, and now he tells the press conference he is a Nazi, sympathises with Hitler, and thinks Israel is a "pain in the ass". Then turning to Kirsten Dunst, his beautiful leading lady, he tells her he wants to make a porno flic. It was all a hideous example of how provocation can easily blow up in the face of the speaker. In the end nobody was talking about his "Melancholia", a rather dull piece about the end of the world, and his official banishment from the Festival became the main news.

3. Iran - two directors are currently in jail in Iran, and the festival showed a movie by each of them. I caught Rasoulof's "Goodbye", which is not likely to be sponsored by the Iranian tourist board. It's a grim and slow tale of hope becoming despair. It's a finely observed piece, shot in secret and reminding us of the fine cinematic tradition from that country.

4. DSK - Not part of the festival, but surely the stuff that screenplays are made of, the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case broke during the first couple of days of the festival. The accusations of attempted rape and the debates about France's privacy laws and sexual mores threatened to overshadow the whole festival and blast it out of the news. There were several films about French politics during the festival, including a very weird piece called "Pater". It's a two-hander between Alain Cavalier and Vincent Lindon where they do little more than drink and chat. They run a film within a film as French PM and President, and raise the issues of pay equality and sex scandals. "The Minister" shows French politics as an out of touch elite, in-fighting and backstabbing.

5. Carla Bruni pregnant - The French First Lady, popstar and super model added two more strings to her bow during the Festival - Woody Allen actress and Sarkozy child-bearer. The news was leaked by Sarkozy's father. The Woody Allen movie, Midnight in Paris, is really very good by the way.

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