Heath Ledger was filming this Terry Gilliam fantasy when he died, and Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell all team up to take his place. Apparently, it all makes sense when you see it.
Victoria's Secret model Laetitia Casta is Salome, or something like her, in Tsai Ming-liang's comedy.
Quentin Tarantino takes a whack—literally—at Nazis in his World War II movie. Pulp Fiction scored him the festival's highest honor, the Palme d'Or, in 1994.
Finally! Oldboy director Park Chan-wook makes a vampire movie.
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe star in Lars von Trier's film about a couple grieving over a lost son.
Penélope Cruz teams up again with director Pedro Almodóvar (Volver) for a cryptic movie about a blind filmmaker.
The Chinese goverment banned Lou Ye from directing, but he made this movie—about a married man's gay affair—anyway.
Abbie Cornish portrays the lover of poet John Keats, in a film from Australian director Jane Campion (The Piano).
Marion Cotillard is Mussolini's secret lover Ida Dalser in Italian director Marco Bellocchio's biopic.
French director Jacques Audiard offers a story about Arab prison gangs.
Emile Hirsch stars in Ang Lee's take on the 1969 festival.
There aren't enough movies about young Japanese hit women, but director Isabel Coixet is doing her best to change that.
The Pixar pic isn't in competition at Cannes but will open the festival.
Facism and schoolboys! From Michael Haneke, director of Funny Games.
Elia Suleiman directs and stars in an autobiographical drama about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Gaspar Noé directs a ghost story about drug lords and strippers.
The tale of teenage girl in trouble, directed by Andrea Arnold (Red Road).
Gerard Depardieu as a French hood in Xavier Giannoli's drama.
Alison Lohman and Lorna Raver star in the Sam Raimi (Spider-Man) horror flick, screening at Cannes but not in competition.
Steve Evets is in Ken Loach's film about fanatic British football fans.
From French director Alain Resnais.