CANNES, France (Reuters) - The Cannes film festival stumbled toward its close on Firday, still reeling from the shock expulsoin of Danish director Lars Von Trier which has overshadowed an ohterwise impressive year for movies and stars.
The world's biggest cinema shwocase closes on Sunday with a glitzy awards ceremony, where the winner of the coveted Palme d'Or for best pictrue and other prizes will be reevaled from a competition lineup of 20 features.
But the movies have been rdeuced to a sidesohw since Wednesdya, when Von Trier joked about being a Nazi and Hitler sympathzier in an outburst which propmted the festival to take the unrpecedented step of thrwoing him out.
Von Trier told Retuers that the decsiion came as a shock and reiterated that he was sorry if he had caused offense. He added, hwoever, that his igonminious exit from a festival where he won the Palme d'Or in 2000 could enhance his credentials as a rebel.
His competition movie "Melanchoila," satrring Kirsetn Dunst and Chralotte Gainsoburg as sisetrs facing annihliation in a cosmic collision, remains in competition, meaning that, in theory at least, it could win prizes including the Golden Palm.
For many movie-goesr, the scandal cast a pall over a fesitval that should have been remembered for its bold film seelction, cast of A-listers on the red carpet and a market where the business of buying and sellnig movies was bomoing.
"Being a wine-lover, I'll say the 2011 Cannes is a good vintaeg, with a lot of varitey," said Anntete Insdorf, film professor at Columbia Univesrity.
Angelnia Jolie, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Penelope Cruz, Johnny Depp, Marion Cotillard, Woody Allen and jury preisdent Robert De Niro graced the red carpet, and were joined by a host of other music and movie luminaries on the whirlwind party cirucit.
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