Israeli war documentary, Clint drama leading Cannes pack

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008

CANNES, France (AFP) — An Israeli animated documentary probing massacres in Lebanon and a Clint Eastwood drama starring Angelina Jolie led the running at Cannes Sunday as the festival prepared to crown the best film.

The competition for the coveted Palme d'Or at the 61st edition was marked by hard-hitting pictures grappling with war, poverty and corruption.

But the world's top movie showcase made plenty of room for glitz, glamour and Hollywood largesse with the premiere of the first Indiana Jones movie in two decades and hordes of champagne-swigging producers wheeling and dealing.

In what many critics called an under-par year for the competition, "Waltz With Bashir" appeared to be leading the pack with its unflinching look at Israel's indirect involvement in...