Four songs and four seasons provide the pace in “Young and beautiful,” (original title: "Jeune et Jolie") the engrossing film by France’s filmmaker Francois Ozon (“The swimming pool”) in competition this year. They provide a neat way to organize the film but also reinforce our oh-so-wrong expectations as we settle into the quaint family vignettes which he tenders in the first part of his film: a semi-normal family (they

There’s a scene in Mexican filmmaker Amat Escalante’s film « Heli » in which a young woman returns home to find a pool of blood across the floor of her home and a family that’s vanished. The camera is set low to knee-height and shows her from behind as she enters, and then slowly withdraws out of the room upon making the gruesome discovery, the camera leading the way as she walks backwards to eventually lean against a wall and slowly

CANNES - All aboard for the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.

"The Great Gatsby" by Baz Luhrmann unofficially opened the festivities this morning at 10 a.m. local time (fest kicks off tonight at 7:15 p.m. with the film's premiere).

No need to dwell on the artistic indulgence that befits the director of "Moulin Rouge," we've been down that road before. Luhrmann

France figures highly this year at the Cannes Festival. As Auréliano Tonet noted in his lead article in the special Cannes edition of Le Monde, out of the 75 or so films competing for various prizes across all official and parallel programs, 33 are French. And that’s a boon for cinephiles, indeed. Because as the American majors have been busy turning out a circus-styled sequel-and-3-D performance and some key indie-minded filmmakers

The Cannes Festival isn’t just the greatest film festival in the world: it’s also a major commercial player driving the local economy and ensuring the livelihood of thousands.

Here's a look at the arithmetic:

$25,000: that's the estimated value of the Palme D'Or; $50,000: poney up and you will the most expensive penthouse

The video clip for "Young and Beautiful" by Lana Del Rey was just released online. This is the first time the soundtrack for "The Great Gatsby" is heard. Film which stars Leonardo Di Caprio will open the Cannes Festival next week. In a sequence done with restraint and in a 1920s esthetic, the "Video games" singer wonders whether loves can resist the passage of time and not take away and a specific vision of beauty.

Following a debacle of various other actors and one director who didn't want to be involved, Bradley Cooper also left the Natalie Portman-produced project "Jane Get Your Gun." For a while it seemed like no one wanted to make this movie. But now Ewan McGregor has parachuted in to save the day, taking Bradley Cooper’s proposed role of Natalie Portman’s criminal gang-leader husband. While McGregor seems far too nice