Cannes International Film Fest opens today

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By M&C Movie News May 16, 2007, 9:30 GMT

The Cannes Film Festival is preparing for the opening of its 60th edition today, Wednesday May 16th.

The Jury, under its President, Stephen Frears, and composed of Maggie Cheung, Toni Collette, Maria De Medeiros, Sarah Polley, Marco Bellocchio, Orhan Pamuk, Michel Piccoli, and Abderrahmane Sissako, meets in Cannes for the first time this evening for a working session.After the ceremony of the steps for Wong Kar Wai’s film 'My Blueberry Nights,' in competition, German actress Diane Kruger will introduce the Opening Ceremony. This will be the occasion for the world premiere of 'Absurda,' a short film made by David Lynch and dedicated to movie theatres as a surprise gift for the Festival, to mark its anniversary.To embody this 60th anniversary, the Festival has imagined a symbolic couple: an alliance of wisdom with modernity, experience with grace. Manoel de Oliveira, the only director to have made films ever since the silent era, and princess Shu-Qi, symbol of dreams of the Orient, will declare the 60th Festival open.

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