The rumors all up and down the Croisette favored Lars Von Trier's Dogville all day long and it was even rumored that the film's star, Nicole Kidman, was back in town for the ceremony. But Nicole Kidman did not walk up the red carpet once again. The presenters were easy to pick out of the crowd: Judith Godreche, Ornela Muti, Sting and Trudy Styler, Elizabeth Hurley, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and Jeanne Moreau. more

The cast of Mystic River agrees that Clint Eastwood is a great director to work with. Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins and Laura Linney were on hand in Cannes with Eastwood to speak about his latest film at the press conference. The former president of the jury in 1984, Eastwood is presenting his fourth film in the official selection at Cannes. more

After the many disappointments at this year's Cannes festival, and memories of 8 ½ Women, Peter Greenaway's recent aberration, expectations were not high for his latest offering. But it proved serendipidous, at least for those audiences who are prepared to jettison their notions of conventional narrative. Like Jean-Luc Godard, whose approach to film Greenaway plainly admires, the British director believes in going beyond the restrictions of cinema, creating an intertextual world which draws heavily on the other arts and other media. more