
Though the competition slate for Cannes won't be
announced for another month, rumors and mumblings from those in the know have already named a handful of films that are
thought to be virtual sure things. Included on the list is
Sofia
Coppola's
Marie-Antoinette, which
stars the incredibly cute and widely-loathed
Kirsten Dunst, as well
as
Pedro
Almodóvar's eagerly awaited
Volver and
The
Caiman, a "
skewering of Italian media mogul
and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi" by Cannes veteran
Nanni
Moretti.
Also expected to screen at the festival, though not necessarily in competition, are
Guillermo
del Toro's
Pan's Labyrinth,
Ken
Loach's
The Wind That Shakes the
Barley and, if they can be finished in time,
Richard
Linklater's
Fast Food Nation and
Darren Aronofsky's
The
Fountain.
David
Lynch, too, is rumored to be struggling to finish his
Inland Empire, a film that was once considered a competition lock.