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Breeze of Arab Spring felt on Cannes red carpet
May. 25, 2012 2:53 PM ET (AP)
The ripples of the Arab Spring are being felt in summery Cannes, where films from Egypt and Syria, as well as a passionate documentary about the overthrow of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, are being...
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Robert Pattinson all grown up in "Cosmopolis"
May. 25, 2012 11:57 AM ET (AP)
Going back to what he does best, David Cronenberg takes a visceral day-trip inside the cushioned limousine of a tycoon who cares little for the bloody, populist riots that explode outside his car in...
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Mexico's Reygadas brings surrealism to Cannes
May. 24, 2012 10:06 AM ET (AP)
As the credits rolled on the first Cannes Film Festival screening of Mexican director Carlos Reygadas' new film, someone in the audience shouted out "Viva Bunuel!"
The reference to surrealist cinema...
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Kylie Minogue at Cannes in bizarre 'Holy Motors'
May. 23, 2012 8:01 AM ET (AP)
Holy cow. The most rapturous audience reception at the Cannes Film Festival has gone to "Holy Motors," a disorienting, whirling dream of a movie by French director Leos Carax.
Starring Denis Lavant as...
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Brandon Cronenberg is a chip off the bloody block
May. 22, 2012 5:43 AM ET (AP)
You wait years for a new Cronenberg movie at Cannes, and then two come along at once.
Macabre master David Cronenberg's "Cosmopolis" screens at the film festival on Friday _ but first off the bat was...