Friday 15th April 2011
Scots director in line for Cannes award
The Scotsman
Scottish director Lynne Ramsay's new film is in the running for the Cannes Film Festival's top prize.
Her adaptation of the best-selling novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, by London-based Lionel Shriver, stars Tilda Swinton as a mother coming to terms with her son's role in a school massacre.
It is one of 19 films shortlisted for the prestigious Palme d'Or.
Ramsay, who was born in Glasgow and educated in Edinburgh, is up against Spanish film maker Pedro Almodovar and Hollywood veteran Terrence Malick.
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