皮克斯新作《飞屋环游记》破天荒成为第62届戛纳电影节开幕影片，这也是该电影节史上首度以动画片开幕。《飞屋环游记》(Up) 讲述的是一位年迈气球商与八岁胖男孩,携手展开一场傻气十足的拉美探险之旅的故事。

此次共有三部英国电影参展。英国导演肯·洛克的新片《寻找埃里克》蛮描范写一敌位邮递员涌落洽在濒临生活崩溃诽敢时霄，绕决搭定接信受湃吱新的生艘活方式绎，扮携成他的足球偶像巳埃里吟克肺·鲁坎歹通纳的故事算朽。《明亮的星》讲述的是19世纪著名诗人济慈与芬妮·勃劳恩短暂却感动世人的爱情故事。英国新锐女导演的新作《鱼缸》也进入了竞赛单元。

奥斯卡得主英国女星蒂尔达·斯文顿出席了开幕式，到场的还有布莱德·彼特、 佩内洛普·克鲁兹和约翰尼·德普等巨星。

这场以耀眼豪奢出名的盛会，因今年经济危机打击已收敛了华丽场面。但这并不是一个坏消息，人们可以更关注电影本身而非电影以外的东西了。

Up launches Cannes film festival

Pixar film Up has opened the 62nd Cannes Film Festival - the first time an animation has launched the event on the French Riviera.

A host of celebrities donned 3D glasses for the film, not in competition, about a curmudgeonly man who ties balloons to his house in order to get airborne.

Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton was among those on the red carpet. Brad Pitt, Penelope Cruz and Johnny Depp are also all due in town, with new films to promote. The event runs until 24 May, when the Palme d'Or prize will be announced.

UK hopefuls

Three UK films are also competing for the prestigious prize including Ken Loach's Looking for Eric, in which former footballer Eric Cantona plays himself as the personal hero of a postman whose life is spinning downhill.

Bright Star - a period drama about poet John Keats - and Fish Tank, a domestic drama starring Michael Fassbender, complete the British contingent in the main competition.

Behind the smiles and flashing cameras, the mood along the palm-lined Croisette waterfront has been an uncertain one, with economic worries balanced by a feeling among festival purists that films, not parties, would once again be the main focus, Reuters reports.

"This year perhaps we can think about the cinema, not the stars and the starlets and the excessiveness of Cannes but the emphasis on the films," festival director Thierry Fremaux told the news agency.

（Source: BBC，英国使馆文化教育处提供）