Heath Ledger's Film To Debut At Cannes

7 months ago 24th Apr 13:30

Heath Ledger's last film 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus' will be shown at the Cannes film festival.

The movie - which was part-way through filming when the actor tragically died last January - will finally be premiered at the prestigious French movie event next month.

Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law stepped in to help complete the Terry Gilliam production and its release was postponed by several months.

Meanwhile, the 20 nominees for the festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or have been announced.

British director Ken Loach - who won the award in 2006 for the film 'The Wind That Shakes The Barley' - has been shortlisted for 'Looking For Eric', about a soccer-loving postman who is helped by his hero Eric Cantona.

Previous competition winners Lars Von Trier, Jane Campion and Quentin Tarantino have also been named.

They will battle it out with Pedro Almodovar, Ang Lee, Michael Haneke and Park Chan-wook to win the esteemed award.

This year - which will be the 62nd annual Festival de Cannes - the jury will be chaired by French actress Isabelle Huppert and includes British author Hanif Kureishi.

Tarantino's World War II action film 'Inglourious Basterds' - starring Brad Pitt and Samuel L Jackson - will take on Lee's comedy 'Talking Woodstock', which features Liev Schreiber and Emile Hirsch.

Meanwhile, Campion - who previously scooped the award in 1993 with 'The Piano' - returns with a movie about the poet John Keats, called 'Bright Star'.

Almodovar's 'Broken Embraces' will star Penelope Cruz as his leading lady and the competition will also feature Von Trier's 'Antichrist', Haneke's 'The White Ribbon', Isabel Coixet's 'Map of the Sounds of Tokyo' and Italian Marco Bellocchino's 'Vincere'.

The festival will run from May 13 to May 24.

List of Palme d'Or nominees at the 62nd annual Festival de Cannes

Pedro Almodocar - 'Broken Embraces'

Andrea Arnold - 'Fish Tank'

Jacques - 'Un Prophete'

Marco Bellocchio - 'Vicente'

Jane Campion - 'Bright Star'

Xavier Giannoli - 'A L'Origine'

Isabel Coixet - 'Nap of the Sounds of Tokyo'

Michael Haneke -'The White Ribbon'

Ang Lee - 'Taking Woodstock'

Ken Loach - 'Look for Eric'