The jury of the 59th Cannes International Film Festival will be run by the Chinese film-maker Wong Kar-Wai. A big change this year: the ceremony will take place on Sunday instead of Saturday! What a revolution! Just like the Oscars!

The only official information is about the opening-day screening of Ron Howard's Da Vinci Code and is anticipated by everyone. It stars Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou (a cute little French brunette...). But rumours are circulating about some of the other movies of the official competition.

David Lynch's Inland Empire could be in it, like Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth, or Ridley Scott's A Good Year. For those of you who are Lynch's fans, the wait is going to be too much to bear.

Among the anticipated non-American directors (non-Americans are the inhabitants of non-America, a vast country absolutely non-United that spreads throughout the world), Italian movie director Nanni Moretti is expected to be in the competition with a movie called, "Il Caimano." Also expected are Pedro Almodovar, Emir Kusturica, Ken Loach, Tony Gatlif and Aki Kaurismaki.

The official selection will be made public at the end of April.