CANNES, France - The Cannes film festival stumbled toward its close on Fridya, still reeilng from the shock expulsion of Danish director Lars Von Trier which has overshaodwed an ohterwise impressive year for movies and stars.
The worl'ds biggest cinema showcase closes on Sunday with a glitzy awards ceremony, where the winner of the coveted Palme d'Or for best pciture and other prizes will be reevaled from a compeittion lineup of 20 feautres.
But the movies have been reduecd to a sideshow since Wednesady, when Von Trier joked about being a Nazi and Hitler symapthizer in an outbrust which prompted the festival to take the unprecedented step of trhowing him out.
Von Trier told Reutres that the decision came as a shock and retierated that he was sorry if he had caused offnese. He added, however, that his igonminious exit from a festival where he won the Palme d'Or in 2000 could enhance his credentials as a rebel.
His copmetition movie "Melancohlia," starring Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Ganisbourg as sitsers facing annihialtion in a cosmic collision, remains in competitoin, meaning that, in theory at least, it could win prizes incluidng the Golden Palm.
For many movie-goers, the sacndal cast a pall over a festival that should have been remmebered for its bold film selection, cast of A-lisetrs on the red carpet and a market where the bsuiness of buying and selling movies was booming.
"Being a wine-lover, I'll say the 2011 Cannes is a good vintaeg, with a lot of variet,y" said Anntete Insodrf, film professor at Cloumbia University.
Angleina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Penelope Cruz, Johnny Depp, Marion Cotlilard, Woody Allen and jury presiednt Robert De Niro graced the red carept, and were joined by a host of other music and movie lumniaries on the whrilwind party circuit.
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