Cannes Film Festival Shifts Focus, Featuring Auteur-Heavy Lineup with Fewer US Films
The 79th Cannes Film Festival is reportedly looking beyond Hollywood, with US filmmakers largely absent from its influential lineup. The festival is set to feature an auteur-heavy selection, with notable attendees like Gillian Anderson and Cara Delevingne.
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Cannes looks beyond Hollywood as US film-makers mostly fail to make the grade
The 79th edition of the influential festival boasts an auteur-heavy lineup – with one, very big, country conspicuous by its almost total absence Gillian Anderson and Cara Delevingne to hit Cannes as auteur heavyweights dominate festival lineup Has Europe fallen out of love with the US? Has Cannes fallen out of love with Hollywood? Will the festival, like Nato, become a non-American institution? Either way, the annual announcement of the Cannes selection has revealed a list that skews away ...
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