Film Festival to start with stars and cartoon.

The 62nd Cannes Film Festival are open. To start the first animated film was shown at the gala guests put on 3D glasses needed. Overall, in the coming days, several thousand films - the jury is hoping for food for thought.

 

The 62nd Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday evening the first time with a film in 3D projection begun. After the official welcome and presentation of the jury, it was for the gala guests in tuxedo and evening dress "glasses on."

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The launch of the largest film festivals in the world shown Animationsfilm "Up" from the studio Disney / Pixar was his only three-dimensional stimulus with the appropriate corrective unfold. The opening film runs out of competition in the competition for the Palme d'Or, on 24 May is to be awarded.

20 films competing this year for the Palme d'Or. These are also films from previous winners such as palm-Quentin Tarantino, Ken Loach, Jane Campion and Lars von Trier. The only production in the German competition, the drama "White Band", the Austrian Michael Haneke with actors such as Ulrich Tukur and Susanne Lothar in Germany turned. In the other series of the official selection, in addition to programs and on the international film market, a total of several thousand new works shown.

President of the jury this year is the French actress Isabelle Huppert. She said before the opening programmatically: "We are not here to judge films on. We are here to movies to love." She hoped that the works "not only emotionally touching, but also to stimulate thought."

Among the stars, which this year are expected in Cannes include Brad Pitt, Penélope Cruz, the German Til Schweiger, and the pop singer Mariah Carey. The American director Martin Scorsese Presents the Cannes Classics series, his countryman and colleague, Francis Ford Coppola opened the by-number "of the Quinzaine Réalisateurs" with his playing in Argentina, family drama "Tetro."