Cannes Film Festival unveils 2014 official selections
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E-mail Cntv, April 19, 2014
The line-up has been released for this year’s Cannes film festival, which begins on May 14th. Meryl Streep, Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Nicole Kidman and Hilary Swank are all expected to attend.
At the 67th Cannes film festival, Hollywood star power will vie with world cinema and a large crop of French films, including New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard’s latest, "Adieu au Langage".
Opening the festival is an out-of-competition screening of "Grace of Monaco", a biopic starring Nicole Kidman and directed by French director Olivier Dahan. Meanwhile, Tommy Lee Jones, Meryl Streep and Hilary Swank will add Hollywood pizzazz in the frontier drama "The Homesman".
The 18 films in the main lineup include entries from Canada, Russia, Turkey, Italy and Japan. They highlight the international breadth of what Artistic Director Thierry Fremaux calls "cinema’s great rendezvous".
Those representing French cinema include Olivier Assayas’ "Sils Maria" starring Juliette Binoche.
Another Hollywood offering will be the out-of-competition world premiere of the animated "How to Train Your Dragon 2".
A total of 49 long-form films have been chosen to screen at Cannes out of 1,800 submitted, with 28 countries represented.
This year’s official poster is a sepia-toned portrait of Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni, who starred in Federico Fellini’s classic "8 and a half" and "La Dolce Vita".
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