Balkan romp brings happy ending to dark Cannes
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CANNES, France  - Two-time Cannes winner Emir Kusturica brought a happy ending to the film festival on Saturday with a boisterous Balkan romp, breaking the mould for a competition full of dark tales.
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CANNES, France  - A hard-hitting Romanian movie set towards the end of the communist era won the Cannes Film Festival's top honor on Sunday.
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Alexander Payne's latest is one of the year's most entertaining movies.
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The critics in Cannes are a notoriously contentious bunch, but something close to a consensus has formed that this festival has new vitality at 60.
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CANNES, France  - When director Pedro Almodovar was named hot favorite to triumph at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006, he called it a curse after he failed to win.
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Not only did the world join him in heralding the arrival   of the most genetically blessed offspring in all the land, but his   latest big screen venture, the Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu-directed   Babel, took home a prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
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A bold and vivacious cartoon wins over the crowd in Cannes
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Critics are struggling to pick a  winner ahead of Sunday&#39;s award ceremony at the Cannes Film  Festival, but several are tipping a hard-hitting Romanian  picture to walk away with the coveted Palme d&#39;Or.
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CANNES, France  - Critics are struggling to pick a winner ahead of Sunday's award ceremony at the Cannes Film Festival, but several are tipping a hard-hitting Romanian picture to walk away with the coveted Palme d'Or.
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Reflecting revitalized box offices in  home markets and a newfound confidence to stand up to  Hollywood, European films will command the spotlight at  Germany's Berlinale film festival for the first time in years.
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The 61st Venice Film Festival ended with a big roar of approval for   Vera Drake.
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Film director Luc Besson left the limelight at Cannes and held screenings instead in Paris's gritty banlieues, where Europe's immigration problems are most acute.
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Cannes still parties hard, but there's a velvet rope everywhere you turn.
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The film now rests its hopes on an overseas success to make a profit
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Okay, a few days ago I wrote a review of the Diving Bell and the Butterfly saying it could be the best picture of 2007, but even so you might want to skip it because the truth it reveals might be something you don't want to look at. It's a fine picture, but a tough one. Another wonderful but tough picture is No Country for Old Men. It's one of those movies that leaves so much unresolved that you walk out of the theater not sure which foot goes in front of the other. On a second viewing it makes much more sense. The world isn't necessarily as crazy as it at first seemed. But there's a movie that is also incredibly well crafted, and gets better every time you think about it -- Juno. I didn't realize how much I liked it until I heard someone compare it to Little Miss Sunshine, a movie that I did not enjoy, unlike everyone else it seems. I loved Juno because it organizes its sweetness into love for one person, the star of the movie, Juno. But everyone, no matter how dorky or clueless (and some of the adults are truly dorky and clueless) shares the love. The movie has a wholeness, an unqualified goodness, you not only walk out of the theater in love with Juno and everyone else in the movie, but your heart is warmed for everyone, including yourself. It's that good.  All three remind how good movies can be. And there were some not-too-bad movies at the end of 2007, for example, Atonement, which some didn't like, but I did. 3:10 to Yuma is a well-crafted genre picture. Michael Clayton was a perfect showcase for the talents of George Clooney. Great acting and a simple story in The Savages.  Which one was the best? I'd hate to have to choose!
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The declaration, greeted with euphoria by ethnic Albanians, brings to a climax a showdown with Serbia and its ally, Russia.
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CANNES, France  - It is the world's greatest film festival and everybody in movies wants to be there. But that doesn't mean they all have fun at Cannes.