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Cannes Film Festival Announces Line Up

The world's most famous film festival has announced its line up for this year's competition. Cannes Film Festival officials say they sifted through a record-breaking 1,869 feature films to narrow the field down to the 49 that will be screened next month on the French Riviera. Twenty of the films will battle it out for the top prize, the Palme d'Or. The films at the 69th edition of the festival will include the serious, as well as the silly. American...

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