Last year, the political thriller Fair Game, starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts was the sole American Palme dOr contender. It has been eight years since an American film won the competition.
Yet Cannes indeed France in general loves Hollywood. Remember how much in thrall its New Wave directors Godard, Truffaut and Chabrol were to American genre films? And Hollywood movies and their stars have traditionally received a warm welcome on the Croisette. Over the years actors ranging from Elizabeth Taylor, Faye Dunaway, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have happily strolled around town .
Canness love affair with the Yanks continues this year. Woody Allen directed this years opener, Midnight in Paris, and this years jury chairman is Robert De Niro, who first visited Cannes in 1976, to promote Taxi Driver.
With him then was his 13-year-old co-star, Jodie Foster. Now shes back in town with The Beaver. Cannes and Hollywood: its a long-term romance.
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