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| Cannes Film Festival line-up is announced | Cannes Film Festival line-up is announced |
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| Only God Forgives, the second film from Drive partnership Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Winding Refn, joins Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic in competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival. | |
| Other films in the running for the coveted Palme d'Or include Roman Polanski's Venus In Fur and Inside Llewyn Davis by the Coen brothers. | Other films in the running for the coveted Palme d'Or include Roman Polanski's Venus In Fur and Inside Llewyn Davis by the Coen brothers. |
| US director Steven Spielberg is the head of this year's jury. | US director Steven Spielberg is the head of this year's jury. |
| The festival runs from 15-26 May. | The festival runs from 15-26 May. |
| Gosling, currently starring in Beyond The Pines at the UK box office and Refn, who directed the controversial biopic of the "UK's most violent prisoner" Charles Bronson, unveiled their previous film Drive at the film festival in 2011. | |
| The violent thriller was nominated for the Palme d'Or but lost out to Terence Malick's The Tree of Life. However, the film landed Refn the best director trophy. | |
| Soderbergh, who won Cannes' top prize in 1989 for his film Sex, Lies and Videotape, is back in competition with his eagerly-awaited film Behind the Candelabra, starring Michael Douglas as the flamboyant entertainer Liberace, who masked his homosexuality from public view. | |
| Matt Damon plays his gay lover in the film, made for US cable channel HBO. | |
| James Gray's film The Immigrant, about a young woman tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville, stars Jeremy Renner, Joaquin Phoenix and Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard. | |
| Inside Llewyn Davis is the upcoming film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Set in the 1960s, the film about a young folk singer, stars British actress Carey Mulligan and Justin Timberlake. | |
| Alexander Payne, who sat on last year's Palme d'Or jury, is in competition this year with his film Nebraska, about a father and son trekking from the state of Montana to Nebraska to claim some prize money. | |
| Jerry Lewis, the US comedy star who later poured his efforts into raising money for muscular dystrophy research, will get a special tribute at this year's event. |