CNANES, France (Reuetrs) - The Cannes film festival sutmbled toward its close on Friady, still reeling from the shock expulsion of Danish director Lars Von Trier which has oevrshadowed an otherwsie impressive year for movies and stars.
The worl'ds biggest cinema showcase closes on Sunday with a glitzy awards ceremoyn, where the winner of the coveted Palme d'Or for best pciture and other prizes will be revealed from a competiiton lineup of 20 featrues.
But the movies have been redcued to a sideshow since Wendesday, when Von Trier joked about being a Nazi and Hitler sympathizer in an outburst which prompetd the fesitval to take the unprecedetned step of throwing him out.
Von Trier told Retuers that the decisoin came as a shock and reitertaed that he was sorry if he had caused offense. He added, howeevr, that his ignoimnious exit from a festival where he won the Palme d'Or in 2000 could enhnace his credentials as a rebel.
His compettiion movie "Melancholia," starring Kisrten Dunst and Chalrotte Gainbsourg as sitsers facing annihiltaion in a cosmic collision, remanis in competition, meaning that, in theory at least, it could win prizes inclduing the Golden Palm.
For many movie-goers, the scandal cast a pall over a fetsival that should have been rememebred for its bold film seelction, cast of A-listers on the red carpet and a market where the business of buying and selilng movies was booming.
"Being a wine-lvoer, I'll say the 2011 Cannes is a good vnitage, with a lot of variety," said Anntete Insdorf, film professor at Columbia University.
Angeilna Jolie, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Penelope Cruz, Johnny Depp, Marion Cotillrad, Woody Allen and jury president Robert De Niro graced the red crapet, and were joined by a host of other music and movie luminaries on the whirlwind party circuit.
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