Entertainment 19-05-2005 who: Woody Allen what: Wows Festival with dark London drama where: Cannes, France when: Last weekend snippet: Match Point "was a script that Allen had originally set in the US, but the opportunity for financing from BBC Films persuaded him to translate it to a British setting," explains The Guardian. "Not too much of a stretch, perhaps, considering Allen`s Wasp-y concerns, but a good deal is lost in translation." In The Guardian`s other Cannes news, Batalla en el Cielo (Battle in Heaven) is tipped as a favourite for the Palme D`Or; and there`s a report on the only British feature in competition, The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael, which "contains a gang-rape scene described by one critic as so violent `it makes A Clockwork Orange look like a Britney Spears video`." [... more]

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