Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby will open the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday
15 May. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire the 3D
spectacular is highly anticipated at the glamorous annual event in the south of
France.
The 66th festival will be opened by French actress Audrey Tautou and Steven
Spielberg will preside over the jury that will choose the winner of the prestigious
Palme d’Or award. Other members of the jury include Ang Lee, Nicole Kidman, Lynne
Ramsay and Christoph Waltz.
Twenty films are competing for the Palme d’Or award:
Behind the Candelabra by Steven Soderbergh
Borgman by Alex van Warmerdam
Grigris by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Heli by Amat Escalante
Inside Llewyn Davis by Ethan and Joel Coen
Jeune et Jolie (Young and Beautiful) by Francois Ozon
Jimmy P. (Psycotherapy of a Plains Indian) by Arnaud
Desplechin
La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty) by Paolo Sorrentino
La Vie D’Adele by Abdellatif Kechiche
Le Passe (The Past) by Asghar Farhadi
Le Venus a la Fourrure (Venus in Fur) by Roman Polanski
Michael Kohlhass by Arnaud de Pallieres
Nebraska by Alexander Payne
Only God Forgives by Nicolas Winding Refn
Only Lovers Left Alive by Jim Jarmusch
Soshite Chichi Ni Naru (Like Father, Like Son) by Koreeda
Hirokazu
The Immigrant by James Gray
Tian Zhu Ding (A Touch of Sin) by Jia Zhangke
Un Chateau en Italie by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Wara No Tate (Shield of Straw) by Takashi Miike
Film buffs eyes will be on this year’s Cannes Film Festival from 15 to 26 May.
