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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Cannes | Thompson wraps up first day

Anne Thompson has a first day wrap here.
At the jury press conference, Sean Penn was mercurial and testy: over-the-top on his shove-it-down-your-throat political agendas, and yet an uncompromising artist, the sort of filmmaker that Cannes embraces.

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