聚焦戛纳：王家卫的《蓝莓之夜》

5月16日，第60届戛纳国际电影节在法国南部蓝色海岸戛纳城拉开帷幕。由王家卫执导、当红爵士小天后诺拉·琼斯主演的《蓝莓之夜》将成为本届电影节上的开幕影片。《蓝莓之夜》是王家卫继《2046》之后推出的首部英语影片，被认为是戛纳的一大亮点。此外，在王家卫调教下成长起来的影后张曼玉这次将以评委身份在电影节亮相。　 点击收听：Seven years by 爵士小天后Norah Jones

British actor Jude Law and US singer Norah Jones playing in the film "My blueberry nights" by Chinese director Wong Kar Wai who will become the first Chinese filmmaker to open the Cannes film festival

Singer Norah Jones kickstarts her acting career and the Cannes Film Festival tonight as she probes the meaning of love in Wong Kar Wai's 'My Blueberry Nights,' one of 22 movies vying for prizes in the annual cinematic contest.

Co-starring a scruffy Jude Law, the movie competes with a slew of works by independent U.S. filmmakers. Quentin Tarantino looks at a psychopath who kills women with his car in 'Death Proof.' Joel and Ethan Coen show a film about a hunter who finds dead bodies, a heroin stash and $2 million in 'No Country for Old Men.' Gus Van Sant's 'Paranoid Park,' meanwhile, depicts a teenage skateboarder who accidentally kills a security guard and keeps it quiet.

Out of the competition, Hollywood bluebloods George Clooney and Brad Pitt top the red-carpet lineup for Steven Soderbergh's 'Ocean's Thirteen.' Angelina Jolie flies in for her role as the widow of Daniel Pearl -- the U.S. reporter beheaded in 2002 -- in Michael Winterbottom's '`A Mighty Heart.'' And three years after winning the Palme d'Or for '`Fahrenheit 9/11,' Michael Moore brings a new film to Cannes: an attack on U.S. medical insurance.

'My Blueberry Nights,' also featuring Natalie Portman and Rachel Weisz, is Wong's first English-language movie. The Hong Kong filmmaker won the Cannes best-director award in 1997 for 'Happy Together.' He subsequently made 'In the Mood for Love' (2000) and '2046' (2004), both Cannes nominees.

This year, the nine-member jury will be steered by U.K. director Stephen Frears, whose 2006 'The Queen' won Helen Mirren a raft of best-actress awards. Jurors include actors Maggie Cheung, Toni Collette, Sarah Polley and Michel Piccoli, Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako and the Nobel prizewinning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk.

（Agencies） 

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