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They haven't got many world preems, today's press release only mentions Michael Hoffman's The Last Station, but that could all change – as the festival has some surprises in store for patrons (this would be a good time to bring out All Good Things into the Oscar mix) and everyone is expecting Jason Reitman to show up. We are checking his twitter status.

For the most part, it appears that the festival is combining the old auteurs (Resnais) along with the new (Andrea Arnold), and have once again come to help out & support a filmmaker such as Lou Ye, who was banned from filmmaking in China for a couple of years for coming to Cannes with the uncensored Summer Palace (2006). This year he brings Spring Fever - about a young threesome overcome with erotic longings. Here are some thoughts on some of the announcements.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet recently directed Audrey Tautou in Chanel, not the film (not to be confused with Anne Fontaine's Coco avant Chanel) but in a long form commercial.

With the Igor film exploring the obscure romance between Coco and the Russian composer (played by popular Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen), today, Sony Pictures Classics has claimed Anne Fontaine's version (starring Audrey Tautou), with hers being the one that might work better commercially.

Choosing to focus on Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel's youthful, formative years before her major European and American successes, helmer Anne Fontaine ("Nouvelle chance") has taken on the challenging task of directing Audrey Tatou ("Amelie") as a young, pre-fame Chanel.