Coppola is the second woman to win a solo directing prize in the history of the festival (Jane Campion shared it in the 1990s). But “the awards capped what had been an often disappointing festival characterized by a fairly weak feature-film competition, misfires from venerated auteurs and rumors that some movies had been rushed into the festival before they had been fully edited. (The overlong running times of some titles certainly suggested as much.)”