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...votes? Cannes is the only election I know with a 100% turnover in eligible voters each year. The festival bosses choose nine or 10 distinguished members of the film and literary community to serve. This year's Jury comprises directors Emir Kusturica (President), Fatih Akin, Benoit Jacquot, Agnes Varda and John Woo; actresses Nandita Das and Salma Hayek; actor Javier Bardem; and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison...
...Born, which juggles sentiment and cynicism about the great unknown - other people - without ever losing poise or focus. And it made me cry. So shoot me. Some would: Once You're Born was also the critical consensus for worst film of the festival. Earlier today, when Jury member Jacquot asked critics which film they would hate to see win, my friend John Powers trumpeted: "the Italian film." Jacquot gave John a reassuring smile. "Don't worry," he said. (Jacquot confided that he thought the competition contained only one great film: the Cronenberg...
...Left does not like the trend. But the bulk of the F.F.I, still supports General de Gaulle, and Gaullist Regular Army men make a policy of appreciating F.F.I. services. Last week, while Colonel Rol-Tanguy was being whittled down, another F.F.I, colonel, Jacquot, received a medal and a Gallic kiss, for gallantry in action, from the French First Army's General Delattre de Tassigny. Nevertheless the F.F.I, remains wary. Last week they complained about lack of weapons for Maquis still fighting Germans in western France. Growled the Communist Humanité: "Is that fifth-column work in Paris...
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