Monday, May 13, 2013

Cannes film festival opens with fittingly lavish "Great Gatsby"

Posters for the film 'The Great Gatsby' showing actor Leonardo DiCaprio and actress Carey Mulligan are displayed outside the Carlton Hotel before the start of the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Reuters) - The 2013 Cannes film festival opens on Wednesday with Baz Luhrmann's 3D version of "The Great Gatsby", a lavish throwback to the "Roaring Twenties" that befits the glamour and excess of the world's biggest cinema showcase. The Australian director's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel starring Leonardo DiCaprio surprised some Hollywood insiders, because Cannes traditionally launches on the palm-lined French Riviera with a splashy world premiere. ...








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