The 38th
Deauville film festival began on Friday with Harvey Keitel as guest of honour
at the seaside resort's annual celebration of American film.
Six
first-time filmmakers are among the 15 vying for the festival's Grand Prize to
be handed out on September 8 by a jury headed by French actress and director
Sandrine Bonnaire.
Oscar-winning
Frenchman Michel Gondry is among those in competition with "The We and the
I", which follows a bunch of schoolkids on a bus through the Bronx and
premiered at the Cannes film festival in June.
Other
high-profile contenders at the festival on France's Normandy coast include Benh
Zeitlin with his fantastical "Beasts of the Southern Wild" about a
cluster of Louisiana towns being swallowed by the encroaching sea, which took
the Camera d'Or first film prize in Cannes.
And the
festival will pay a special tribute to Keitel, star of such screen classics as
Abel Ferrara's "Bad Lieutenant" and Quentin Tarantino's
"Reservoir Dogs."
Last
year's Grand Prize went to the US auteur Jeff Nichols, whose latest film the
Mississippi-set coming-of-age drama "Mud" will show out of
competition.
Source: MSN.Com
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