Francis Coppola takes another shot at a comeback with Tetro, but the response at Cannes was mixed at best. “The debut of a new Coppola stirred hope and foreboding; and both were warranted,” writes Richard Corliss in Time. “The great news is that this unquestioned giant of American cinema, who sired the Godfather films, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now in the '70s, is still making independent-minded movies three decades later. The bad news is that he made this one.” Eric Kohn of Indiewire chimes in: “Neither complete misfire nor triumphant return to form, Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro works as a competent family drama right up until the messy final act.”

Jane Campion finds a champion for her comeback effort Bright Star in Allan Hunter at Screen Daily:

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Quentin Tarantino, Ang Lee, Terry Gilliam, Pedro Almodovar, Lars von Trier and Jane Campion are among the big-name directors with films set to screen at the 2009 Festival de Cannes. Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds will have its premiere at the festival, where it will compete with von Trier’s Antichrist, Lee’s Taking Woodstock, Almodovar’s Broken Embraces and Campion’s Bright Star. Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus will screen out of competition.

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