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Cannes Film Festival Half Over, But Second Half Looms

May 22, 2007 at 3:54 PM | 0 Comments

We've now reached what the Hollywood Reporter inelegantly calls "halftime" for the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Chinese director Wong Kar-Wai's first English-language film debuted, Michael Moore got a standing ovation (just not from the Treasury Department) for his new documentary, and Pamela Anderson went back on her word and posed for photographers in a skimpy string bikini. The super world travelers even showed up!

Early works were rumored to be a bit of a letdown, but new works by Gus Van Sant ("Paranoid Park," a murder mystery set at a Portland skate park) and the Coen Brothers ("No Country for Old Men," a Cormac McCarthy adaptation starring Tommy Lee Jones) among many others are still up ahead. Check out the official screening schedule, if you still want to catch a show, and then start hoping for a last-minute cancellation at one of our recommended hotels, because if Angelina Jolie doesn't adopt you you could be sleeping on the beach.

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