The world's entertainment press and film fans are gearing up for
another crazy extravaganza as the 56th annual Cannes Film Festival
gets under way on Wednesday.
China is bringing three movies to the festival, including one from
Hong Kong.
Lou Ye's Purple Butterfly is the only Chinese-language film
entered in the main competition.
It
is also the second time for Zhang Ziyi, the movie's leading
actress, to appear at Cannes, following her earlier role in the
film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
The other two movies are Yu Lik Wai's All Tomorrow's Parties
and Wang Xiaoshuai's Drifters.
The three directors have arrived in France, but they have to stay
isolated in Paris for a while before going to the festival to make
sure they don't have SARS.
(China Radio International May 14, 2003)