Cannes to open with Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights
Nancy Tartaglione-Vialatte in Paris
19 Apr 2007 09:26



The 60th Cannes Film Festival will open May 16 with Wong Kar-wai's first English-language project, My Blueberry Nights, which will play in competition. Singer Norah Jones makes her big-screen debut as a lovelorn woman on a soul-searching journey across America.

The other films selected for competition are:

Catherine Breillat's An Old Mistress (Une Vieille Maitresse)
Christophe Honore's The Love Songs (Les Chansons d'amour)
Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
Fatih Akin's Auf der anderen Seite des Lebens
The Coen Brothers' No Country For Old Men
David Fincher's Zodiac
James Gray's We Own The Night
Naomi Kawase's Mogari No Mori
Emir Kusturica's Promise Me This
Lee Chang-Dong's Secret Sunshine
Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days
Raphael Nadjari's Tehilim
Carlos Reygadas' Silent Light
Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's Persepolis
Ulrich Seidl's Import/Export
Alexander Sokurov's Alexandra
Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof
Bela Tarr's The Man From London
Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park
Andrey Zvyagintsev's The Banishment

Official selection, out of competition:

Michael Moore's Sicko
Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Thirteen
Michael Winterbottom's A Mighty Heart