Just as I hit the ground at the Nice airport today I ran smack into Jude Law, one of the main competition jury members�of the 64th edition of the Cannes Film Festival (under President Robert De Niro), and he looked rarin' to go as he arrived for all the hoopla and non-stop filmgoing over the next 11 days. We'll see what he feels like after plowing through the 20 competition films as well as those out of competition such as Wednesday night's opener, Woody Allen's Midnight In Paris, and the closer, on May 22, Christophe Honore's 2-hour-and-25-minute�Les Bien-Aimes (Beloved), the longest of any film in the official competition -- competing or not. Workers were�busily attaching huge billboards up on the big Croisette hotels when I cruised the tony neighborhood earlier today, but the world's second-most-famous red carpet won't be laid out until midday tomorrow just before Woody, Marion Cotillard, Owen Wilson and the cast of�the director's first French-set film make their way up those famous�Palais steps for his love letter to Paree. It was hoped that co-star Carla Bruni, aka Mrs. Nicolas Sarkozy,�First Lady of�France, would be coming too, but I heard she's not making the trip after all and neither is her husband. C'est La Vie. 
Up and down the�Croisette you are bombarded as usual by ... Read More »Source: http://www.deadline.com/2011/05/cannes-2011-ready-for-its-closeup/
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