CANNES, France (Reuters) - A classroom drama set in a tough Parisian school lifted the gloom in Cannes, giving the world's biggest film festival a much-needed boost after critics panned many of the main competition entries.
It was better late than never for the annual movie marathon, with "Entre Les Murs" ("The Class") screening on the penultimate day of the festival.
Loud applause and cheers after the movie was shown placed it among the favorites to win the coveted Palme d'Or for best film when Sean Penn and his eight fellow jurors hand out the awards at a glittering evening ceremony on Sunday.
The ceremony wraps up 12 days of films, interviews, red carpets and late night revelry in the Riviera resort. In town this year were Madonna, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Clint Eastwood, Penelope Cruz, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford.
"The Class" is directed by Laurent Cantet and is based on an autobiographical novel by Francois Begaudeau who plays himself as a young French teacher facing a sometimes rebellious class.
Shot in a "fly-on-the-wall" style, the film is at times comic, tragic and surprisingly tense and explores themes including race, the generation gap, truth and prejudice.
Before The Class, critics in Cannes had been underwhelmed by the overall standard of the 22 films in competition, with one mumbling that you could hear "the barrel being scraped" by organizers trying to fill the program.
Nonetheless there were some highlights, notably "Waltz With Bashir", an Israeli animated documentary exploring a draftee's memories of the 1982 massacre of Palestinians living in Beirut's Sabra and Shatila camps.
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Johansson responds to wedding rumours
Johansson responds to wedding rumours
Despite a report in the Fresh York Daily Newsworthiness that Scarlett Johansson is shortly to be aim kill the aisle with her swain Ryan Sir Joshua Reynolds, the 23-year-old has denied that she is engaged.
Johansson's congressman told OK! magazine, "On that point is no accuracy at entirely to the Daily News piece."
Canadian-born Sir Joshua Reynolds, world Health Organization is eight-spot years Johansson's senior, ended his appointment to singer Alanis Morissette in Feb of 2007 and began geological dating 'The Doomed in Translation' lead in MArch.
Johansson has antecedently been linked to a number of high profile actors including Benicio del Toro and Jared Latona.
She also had a two-year family relationship with her 'Black Dahlia' co-star Banter Hartnett, before they split at the end of 2006.
Johansson throne next be seen opposite Natalie Portman in Justin Chadwick's newly film 'The Other Boleyn Girl', which is due for spillage by and by this year.
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