Clint Eastwood, Angelina Jolie in running for Cannes prizes
Hollywood Newsroom is now Buzz Newsroom! Visit and bookmark our new site. Buzz is bigger and better, including sports, world news, gadgets and the entertainment news that you're used to. Same staff, just more stuff! Why Fark, Drudge and Huffington when you can Buzz!?Established Hollywood filmmakers and stars such as Clint Eastwood and Angelina Jolie were competing against movies from acclaimed international directors for the top honors at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday.
Among critical favorites at the 12-day festival, which presented some solid entries though no obvious standouts, was Eastwood’s “Changeling,” starring Jolie in the true-life story of a Los Angeles woman battling corrupt police to find her missing son after authorities return the wrong boy in his place.
Other warmly received tales among the 22 in the festival’s main competition included:
• Laurent Cantet’s “The Class,” a classroom drama shot in a French school using real students and teachers;
• Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas’ “Linha de Passe,” a tale of four brothers in a Brazilian slum;
• Ari Folman’s “Waltz With Bashir,” an animated documentary about war in Lebanon in the early 1980s;
• Matteo Garrone’s “Gomorrah,” a study of the criminal underworld in Naples;
• Paolo Sorrentino’s “Il Divo,” a lively portrait of former Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti and accusations against him of mafia ties;
• And Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Three Monkeys,” a subtle drama about a family’s hard choices coming home to roost.
The competition also featured “Lorna’s Silence,” a drama about an immigrant woman who enters a sham marriage to gain Belgian citizenship, from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, two-time winners of the Palme d’Or, the top Cannes award.
Another past Cannes winner, Steven Soderbergh, was in the running with “Che,” his two-part, four-hour epic about Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara, starring Benicio Del Toro. Soderbergh, who won the Palme d’Or for 1989’s “sex, lies and videotape,” received mixed reviews for “Che” from Cannes critics.
- From Yahoo