Cannes Goes on As Planned

Festival organizers have agreed to allow angered members of the film industry an opportunity to voice their arguments as long as they agree not to interrupt the festivities. Part-time actors and technicians had planned to disrupt the festival with protests against cuts in welfare and unemployment benefits.

The festival this year will include more Hollywood movies which is in response to complaints that last year's festival featured too few mainstream U.S. films.

However, Cannes will not be entirely devoid of controversy, as it will feature such films as Almodovar's "Bad Education," which deals with a molestation case by a Catholic priest, and Michael Moore's "Farenheit 9/11," which critiques the Bush administration's reaction to September 11th.

Oscar-winning film-maker Quentin Tarantino will head the Cannes jury, a decade after he won a Palme-d'Or for "Pulp Fiction." Tarantino's latest film, "Kill Bill-Vol 2," will be shown in a special screening at the festival.