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CANNES 2013 Opening

Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby to open Cannes Film Festival

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- The film based on the famous novel by Francis Scott Fitzgerald is one of the out-of-competition titles in the official selection

The Great Gatsby, based on the famous novel by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and adapted by Australian director Baz Luhrmann, will open the 66th Cannes Film Festival on May 15th. The film will be screened as part of the official out-of-competition selection and in 3D.

The story takes place in the 1920’s on the east coast of the United States and focuses, through the eyes of his friend Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire), on the life of Jay Gatsby, played by Leonardo DiCaprio. The two American actors will also be accompanied by the British actress Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, the Indian star Amitabh Bachchan and American rapper Jay-Z.

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“I am very proud to go to a country and attend a festival that have always been generous to me and I'm happy to present Gatsby in Cannes, not far from Saint-Raphaël, where Scott Fitzgerald wrote some of this extraodinary novel’s most important and emotional passages”, declared the 50 year-old director, who already opened the festivities in Cannes in 2001 with the musical Moulin Rouge.

The Great Gatsby, produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures, will be released in France on the same day as its screening at the Festival.

The last adaptation of Scott Fitzgerald’s novel was the film directed in 1974 by Jack Clayton with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow in the main roles.

Candidates for the Palme d’Or will be announced in mid-April. As a reminder, the jury will be presided by Steven Spielberg (news).

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(Translated from French)

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