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CANNES, France : Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman and Jack "Po the Panda" Black brought Hollywood to Cannes with feel-good movie for kids "Kung Fu Panda", that premiered at the film festival Thursday.
Jolie, heavily pregnant with twins, stepped up the celebrated Cannes red carpet flanked by partner Brad Pitt - and a giant fake panda - for the gala screening of the Panda movie.
The Brangelina appearance at the 12-day film fest briefly swept Cannes' more high-brow fare off centre-stage, this year showcasing a trend for highly-relevant political movies.
On the arthouse front in Cannes, of the films competing for the festival's top Palme d'Or prize, the most applauded by critics to date was Turkey's "Three Monkeys" by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, a tale set around family tension.
The other three competition films already screened have all touched on politically or socially-relevant themes and been well-received -- "Blindness" by Brazil's Fernando Meirelles, "Waltz with Bashir," an animated documentary by Israel's Ari Folman, and "Lion's Den" by Argentinian Pablo Trapero.
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