Who will get Palme D’Or prize at Cannes Film Festival? · 2008-04-23 18:53
Movie icon Clint Eastwood will premiere his latest directorial outing, called Changeling, at the Cannes International Film Festival next month.
The 1920s thriller, about a woman whose son is kidnapped, stars Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich and Amy Ryan.
Other films set for the event include Wim Wenders’ The Palermo Shooting and Steven Soderbergh’s four-hour biopic of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara.
The latest Indiana Jones movie will also be shown out of competition, ВВС reports.
The 61st Cannes Film Festival runs from 14-25 May in the south of France.
Quentin Tarantino will be among the Hollywood A-listers attending the festival, where he will give a film directing masterclass.
Other celebrities rumoured to be attending include Penelope Cruz, Woody Allen, Benicio Del Toro and the main cast of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Actor Sean Penn leads this year’s jury, which also contains actress Natalie Portman and former Harry Potter director Alfonso Cuaron.
Between them, they will decide the film which takes home the prestigious Palme D’Or prize.
According to Guardian, in competition for the Palme d’Or:
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Three Monkeys (Turkey-France-Italy)
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Le Silence De Lorna (France-Belgium)
Arnaud Desplechin, A Christmas Story (France)
Clint Eastwood, Changeling (US)
Atom Egoyan, Adoration (Canada)
Ari Folman, Waltz With Bashir (Israel)
Philippe Garrel, La Frontiere De L’Aube (France)
Matteo Garrone, Gomorra (Italy)
Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York (US)
Eric Khoo, My Magic (Singapore)
Lucretia Martel, La Mujer Sin Cabeza (Argentina-Spain)
Brillante Mendoza, Serbis (The Philippines)
Kornel Mondruczo, Delta (Hungary-Germany)
Walter Salles, Linha De Passe (Brazil)
Paolo Sorrentino, Il Divo (Italy)
Pablo Trapero, Leonera (Argentina-South Korea)
Wim Wenders, The Palermo Shooting (Germany)
Jia Zhangke, 24 City (China)
Steven Soderbergh – Che (US-Spain-France)
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