'The Great Gatsby' to open Cannes

'Gatsby' to open Cannes

The Great Gatsby" will open this year's Cannes Film Festival, The Associated Press reports. Organizers said Tuesday the film, with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role and directed by Australian Baz Luhrmann, will be screened in 3-D. Luhrmann stressed the film's French connection, saying in a statement that author F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "some of the most poignant and beautiful passages" of "The Great Gatsby" at a French Riviera villa not far from Cannes. The festival runs May 15-26.