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So, I read a headline today that read:

"Animated Movie To Open Cannes For First Time"

I got really excited because I knew just what movie was opening Cannes. It has to be the same incredible animated film that opened Sundance this year, Adam Elliot's Mary and Max.

While I didn't get to attend a screening of Mary and Max, Whitney did and absolutely loved it. Made painstakingly over five years, the dark claymation tale of "two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York" stars the voices of Toni Collette and Philip Seymour Hoffman and has met mostly positive reviews since it's debut. Surely, the debut feature from the director of Harvie Krumpet (2005) will be opening Cannes...right?

Wrong.