The jury headed by American brothers and directors had the choice of nineteen films, five of which are from France.
Last year the highest award at the most important film festival in the world to more than three-hour film Wintersleep of the Turkish director Bilge Ceylan.
One of the French films that have a chance, Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan of which the special prize at Cannes in 2009 the jury received for his prison movie Un prophète .
Other candidates are Youth by Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, which last year’s Oscar for best non -Engelstalige film won the great beauty and Carol of the American director Todd Haynes, with Cate Blanchett in the title role of a married woman who falls in love with another woman.
The 68th festival started on May 13 with the screening of La Tête haute (head up) by French director Emmanuelle Bercot. It was only the second time in history that a film of a woman opened the event
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