World Events Rumble at Cannes
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CANNES, France — Of all the filmmakers whose work is in the 63rd Cannes Film Festival — including the French lion Jean-Luc Godard, who growled at us yet refused to show his face, and the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, who has seemingly metamorphosed into a Euro-style art-house auteur — none have had the impact of the man who could not attend. Jafar Panahi is an Iranian director who was asked to join the competition jury, but is currently in a jail in his country for his political views. On Tuesday, a message from him in which he asked to contact his family and speak with a lawyer, was posted on the Web site of the French journal La Règle du Jeu
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