Magician Edward Norton opens Deauville Film Festival

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DEAUVILLE, France (AFP) — US star Edward Norton opens the 32nd festival of American cinema in the French seaside resort of Deauville with a showing of his film "The Illusionist". The story of a magician in early-20th-century Vienna who falls in love with a woman of higher social status kicks off 10 days devoted to US movies, whch will see a screening of Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center", Brian de Palma's "The Black Dahlia" and former US vice president Al Gore's documentary on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth." Proceedings will conclude with "The Devil Wears Prada" in which Meryl Streep stars as the demanding, high-maintenance editor of a fashion magazine, a screen adaptation of the runaway bestseller.

Streep, who will arrive in the resort on September 9, also stars...