DEATH PROOF

Quentin Tarantino's homage to 70s exploitation car-chase movies was recently released as Grindhouse in the US, in a double-bill with Planet Terror, both starring the tantalising Rose McGowan. Will it do better at Cannes than in the US where it virtually died at the box office?

THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY

Known in French as Le Scaphandre et le Papillon. Directed by Julian Schnabel, whose film Before Night Falls won the Grand Special Jury Prize at the 2000 Venice Film Festival.