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The 68th Cannes International Film Festival opens with a film by a French director

Photo Ingrid Bergman smiles from the posters announcing the 68th Cannes International Film Festival. On May 13, 2015, it will be opened by the film Standing Tall directed by Emmanuelle Bercot, and more than 50 films will be screened at the festival, which will last until May 24.

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This year, the 68th Cannes International Film Festival with the host Lambert Wilson at the helm, the film by the French director opens Emmanuelle Bercot with Title Standing Tall, which will thus be the second opening film in the history of the festival, created under the direction of a woman - the first, A Man in Love, she directed Diane Kurys, and opened the Can Festival in 1987. He joins the opening film Competition program of the festival, during which 19 films competing for the Palme d'Or will be screened, and the same number can be viewed in the section Un Certain Regard, and the section counts nine of them Short films. During the special screenings, seven films will be presented, including directorial debuts, a film by an American actress Natalie Portman with Title A Tale of Love and Darkness, the movie Panama Serbian director Pavlet Vučković and Hayored Lema'ala Israeli director Elad Keidan.

Among the long-awaited films of the festival is the fourth feature by the French director Gaspar Noé with Title Love, which will be in addition to the films About Pisa the director Won-Chan Hong from South Korea and Amy British director Asifa Kapadia, also presented at the midnight screening. We remind you that Noé's psychedelic film premiered in Cannes in 2009 Into the void (Enter The Void), and seven years earlier a shocking drama Irreversible (Irreversible). It is also among the promising films A Perfect Day, which inevitably attracts attention because of the cast. In a drama set in the Balkans by a Spanish director Fernanda León de Aranoa they played excellently Benicio Del Toro, Tim Robbins and Olga Kurylenko.

Can't miss the classics and documentaries that will be screened as part of the section Cannes Classics. These are the long-awaited ones Hitchcock/Trauffaut, created by an American director Kent Jones, French director Elisabeth Kapnist will introduce herself with a documentary Orson Welles, Shadows & Light, Ingrid Bergman from the official poster for this year's festival, but with the film Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words paid tribute by the Swedish director Stig Björkman.

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