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Melancholia, the new 2 hour and 18 minute feature by Lars von Trier (Dancer in the Dark, The Anti-Christ) who often delights in shocking his audiences, had its world premiere here in Cannes Wednesday.

The “big guns” have come out at Cannes with the Festival reaching its mid-point.Today was the well-received Dardennes’ brothers Kid With a Bike, and the American film by maverick Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life, a film that’s been gestating for several decades.Toplining Sean Penn

As the title would indicate, Terrence Malick’s new film, The Tree of Life, is something of an epic.

Reflections from Cannes, Day 5The “dailies” – the daily trade papers like Variety, Screen and Le Film Francais - which are published here in Cannes in special editions balance the sometimes uneasy relationship between the film business and art of film.

Worldview film contributor Milos Stehlik, has made yet another trip to the French Riviera for the Cannes Film Festival. As WBEZ’s unofficial Cannes blogger, he’s allowed us to experience the spectacle vicariously.

Woody Allen’s love letter to Paris opens the 2011 Cannes Film Festival tonight.The film, Midnight to Paris, will also open in a few days or weeks in most of the rest of the world, part of the pattern in which the Cannes Film Festival acts as the high-visibility platform for global film dist