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Email Print Factboxes Details on 2011 Cannes film festival Tue, May 10 2011 Ten films to look out for at Cannes Tue, May 10 2011 History of the Cannes film festival Tue, May 10 2011 Analysis & Opinion Is this the end of Skype as we knew it? Muni sweeps: Who is picking up the slack? Related Topics Entertainment » Fashion » Film » Related Video Cannes excitement in the air. Tue, May 10 2011 1 / 6 Director Woody Allen and cast members Rachel McAdams and Lea Seydoux pose during a photocall for the film ''Midnight In Paris'' at the 64th Cannes Film Festival, May 11, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Yves Herman By Mike Collett-White and Nick Vinocur CANNES, France | Wed May 11, 2011 10:34am EDT CANNES, France (Reuters) - Woody Allen delighted the crowds at the start of the Cannes film festival Wednesday with "Midnight In Paris," in which Owen Wilson travels back in time and meets the likes of Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso. There was laughter and applause from famously fussy Cannes critics at a screening of this year's opening film, kicking off 11 days of red carpets, press interviews, lounging on luxury yachts and late night partying in the glamorous Riviera resort. In "Midnight in Paris," Allen, a Cannes favorite, explores the notion that bygone ages are better than the present, so Owen's character Gil pines for 1920s Paris while painter Paul Gauguin wants to return to the Renaissance. The Oscar-winning 75-year-old director played for laughs by transporting Owen, a Hollywood scriptwriter called Gil, into a Paris populated by Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali and other artistic greats he had long admired. At one point he runs into Bunuel's character and suggests he make a movie about a dinner party from which the guests cannot escape, which clearly refers to his 1962 picture "The Exterminating Angel." The dramatic change of scene casts a shadow over Gil's 21st century existence, where his fiancee, played by Rachel McAdams, becomes exasperated by his increasingly idiosyncratic behavior and has an affair with the odious intellectual Paul. "You know it's a big trap that thinking living in another time would be better," Allen told reporters. "Everyone wants to get out of living in the current time because life is a lot of opposition. But when you think back ... you think of the nice things ... I wouldn't go back to any time other than now." French First Lady Carla Bruni has a cameo role as a present-day museum guide in three scenes, although she canceled her planned appearance in Cannes because of "personal reasons," feeding rumors in the French press that she may be pregnant. Allen said he met Bruni when he was invited to have breakfast with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and asked her on the spot to join his cast in a minor role. "She said I would like to be in one of your movies because I would like to tell my grandchildren some day that I was in the movie," Allen said. "She came in and did her part very gracefully ... and she played that character perfectly." HOLLYWOOD OUT IN FORCE Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Penelope Cruz, Robert De Niro, Mel Gibson and Johnny Depp are all set to walk the Cannes red carpet, ensuring huge media interest and large crowds of fans keen to catch a glimpse of their screen idols. Blockbusters "Kung Fu Panda 2" starring Jolie and "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" with Depp and Cruz both launch in Cannes, as studios return en masse after avoiding the notoriously costly trip to France due to the financial crisis over the past couple of years. De Niro heads this year's jury, which also includes Uma Thurman and Jude Law, and underlining the pulling power of the festival, pop diva Lady Gaga is widely reported to be putting in a "surprise" appearance on the waterfront Wednesday. Gleaming luxury yachts packed the harbor around the giant cinema complex, the rich and famous have been filling up the five-star hotels and organizers hope the 2011 festival lives up to this year's unusually high expectations. The darlings of Europe's festival circuit -- Pedro Almodovar, Nanni Moretti, the Dardenne brothers, Aki Kaurismaki and Lars Von Trier -- are all vying for the coveted Palme d'Or prize for best picture. So is U.S. veteran Terrence Malick, back in the limelight with only his fifth feature, the eagerly anticipated "The Tree of Life" in which Pitt and Penn star in a family saga set in the American Midwest during the 1950s. Women directors feature more prominently in the main competition than usual, although they still only account for four of 20 entries. Scotland's Lynne Ramsay presents "We Need To Talk About Kevin" and Australian Julia Leigh directs "Sleeping Beauty," described as a "haunting erotic fairy tale." French actress Maiwenn Le Besco brings "Polisse," about a photographer who has an affair with a policeman, and Japan's Naomi Kawase presents "Hanezu No Tsuki." Belgium's Dardenne brothers have a chance to become the first directors to scoop the Palme d'Or three times with "The Kid With A Bike" and festival favorite Almodovar will aim to lift his first Golden Palm with "The Skin I Live In." (Reporting by Mike Collett-White, editing by Paul Casciato) Entertainment Fashion Film Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. 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