- guardian.co.uk, Thursday April 22 2004 10.39 BST
Fahrenheit 9/11 examines why the US became a target of terrorism, and also posits a relationship between the Bush and Bin Laden clans.
The Cannes line-up, which was announced yesterday, has a larger than usual complement of Hollywood films, reflecting the aim of the artistic director, Thierry Frémaux, to make the festival less abstruse. Shrek 2 and the Coen brothers' remake of The Ladykillers are in the main competition, and the much-anticipated Homeric adaptation Troy, starring Brad Pitt, will be shown out of competition along with Terry Zwigoff's Bad Santa and Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead.
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, directed by the Jamaican-born, British- and Australian-raised director Stephen Hopkins, is the only even nominally British movie in the main competition, with the exclusion of Mike Leigh's Vera Drake causing raised eyebrows.
