Filmmaker Wong Kar Wai, from Hong Kong and? one of the darlings of the contest, will he have? the honor of opening tomorrow Wednesday? with his latest work "My Blueberry Nights" he Cannes International Film Festival, who turns 60. ? Along with him, twenty-one other filmmakers from around the world, from established names like Quentin Tarantino ("Death Proof") to rising stocks like the Mexican Carlos Reygadas ("Stellet Licht"), will fight for that golden bouquet that Cannes launches every year.
Has it been announced? the presence in addition? of the couple most persecuted by the paparazzi: Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, as well as the singer Norah Jones, who debuts as actress in the Wong tape, and Javier Bardem, in the cast of "No Country for Old Men", by the Coen brothers.
Cannes has a budget of around twenty million euros, of which half comes from public funds. This figure is? higher than that of other class A competitions: for example, the Czech Karlovy Vary has 4,3 million euros, the Basque San Sebastián six million, Tokyo 6,7 and Venice 8,5. I said: the cinema is served.