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The 2004 Cannes Film Festival.(Communique)

By Porton, Richard
Publication: Cineaste
Date: Wednesday, September 22 2004

All of Cannes's fascinating, and frequently infuriating, contradictions were on display at the 2004 edition of the world's most frenetic film festival. Longtime festival head Gilles Jacob aroused the ire of the cinephilic contingent by claiming that there were fewer "boring" art films in competition--a competition that included, strangely enough, Shrek 2 as well as the latest art film by festival favorite Wong Kar-wai. And, in a gesture that appeared to reinforce the overall incoherence of this year's Cannes, Quentin Tarantino's jury was obviously torn between art and commerce--th

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