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66th Cannes Festival
Al-Ahram Weekly Published in Al-Ahram Weekly on 15 - 05 - 2013

YESTERDAY Samir Farid attended the opening of the 66th Cannes Festival with The Great Gatsby, a 3-D take on F Scott Fitzerald's classic directed by the great Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann and starring Leonardo DiCaoprio. It was an out-of-competition screening, and the second Luhrmann film to open Cannes after his 2001 masterpiece Moulan Rouge.
This year the festival includes 84 premieres from 26 countries, 57 of which are full-length features. With India as the guest of honour of this round, the festival includes two Palestinian films: Hani Abu Assad's Omar in Un Certain Regard and the brothers Mohammed and Ahmad Abou Nasser's Condom Lead in the short film competition (participating as a Palestinian production).
The official competition includes the following films:
Behind the candelabra directed by Steven Soderbergh
Borgman directed by Alex Van Warmerdam
Grigris directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Heli directed by Amat Escalante
Inside llewyn davis directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Jeune & jolie (Young & beautiful) directed by François Ozon
Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a plains indian) directed by Arnaud Desplechin
La grande bellezza (THE GREAT BEAUTY) directed by Paolo Sorrentino
La vénus à la fourrure (Venus in fur) directed by Roman Polanski
La vie d'adèle - chapitre 1 & 2 (Blue is the warmest colour) directed by Abdellatif Kechiche
Le passé (The past) directed by Asghar Farhadi
Michael kohlhaas directed by Arnaud Des pallières
Nebraska directed by Alexander Payne
Only god forgives directed by Nicolas Winding refn
Only lovers left alive directed by Jim Jarmusch
Soshite chichi ni naru (Like Father, Like Son) directed by Kore-eda Hirokazu
The immigrant directed by James GRAY
Tian zhu ding (A TOUCH OF SIN) directed by Jia Zhangke
Un château en italie (A CASTLE IN ITALY) directed by Valeria Bruni tedeschi
Wara no tate (Shield of Straw) directed by Takashi Miike

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