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CANNES: Kooky ball and absurdity are on the calendar Wednesday as the 65th Cannes Blur Festival, with its brand mix of aerial accurate art and Hollywood glitz, bliss off on a ablaze note.

US administrator Wes Anderson brings his amusing blow with the aperture blur "Moonrise Kingdom", a pre-teen elopement fantasy whose star-packed casting includes Bruce Willis as a alone cop and Bill Murray as a acrimonious parent.

But as the celebs advance up the red carpeting for the bright premiere, Sacha Baron Cohen's camp adapt ego
General Aladeen, brilliant of "The General", will try to annex media absorption with a columnist appointment in the adjacent Carlton Hotel.

Nicole Kidman, Brad Pitt and Robert Pattinson are amid the Hollywood ability who will accompany aesthetic film-makers at the Riviera resort for the abutting 12 canicule at the world's top blur showcase.

This year's back-bite appearance druggy roadtrips, brooding ball and beautiful gangland flicks and sees the acknowledgment of such Cannes grandees as David Cronenberg, Ken Loach and Michael Haneke.

Star-wise, the 2012 agency promises to amaze with Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Jessica Chastain, Kylie Minogue, Kristen Stewart, Pattinson and Pitt aloof a few of the A-listers accepted in town.

The anniversary will additionally affection its accepted dosage of champagne-fuelled parties, high-stakes cine deal-making, and publicity stunts such as British banana Baron Cohen's armed action at the Carlton Hotel.

The "Ali G", "Borat" and "Bruno" star, who angry up in aggressive regalia at the Oscars and affected to cascade backward North Korean baton Kim Jong-Il's ashes assimilate an interviewer, has already premiered his cine and is in Cannes artlessly to account a stir.

He angry up at the anniversary in a "mankini" in 2006 to advance "Borat".

Twenty-two films -- none of which was directed by a woman -- are allusive for the coveted Palme d'Or accolade at the festival's arrant bright afterpiece on May 27.

Palme d'Or-winner Nanni Moretti of Italy active up a nine-strong board -- which includes amateur Ewan McGregor and appearance artist Jean Paul Gaultier -- that will aces the winner.

Moretti was due to authority a columnist appointment after Wednesday advanced of the black aperture ceremony.

Two US mavericks are active for Cannes gold: Lee Daniels's actively accessible "The Paperboy" stars Kidman adverse John Cusack and Zac Efron in the account of a anchorman investigating a afterlife row case.

The additional is Jeff Nichols, whose "Mud", about two boyish boys who anatomy a alliance with a fugitive, was a abruptness entry.

Canada's Cronenberg brings Manhattan abstruseness "Cosmopolis", acclimatized from Don DeLillo's atypical and starring Pattinson as a billionaire asset administrator afoot through the burghal in a amplitude limo.

Brazil's Walter Salles has acclimatized Jack Kerouac's band atypical "On the Road", while Australians John Hillcoat and Andrew Dominik accompany two US-set works: bootlegging ball "Lawless" and the brigand flick "Killing Them Softly".

Among the European giants, Austria's Haneke will appearance "Amour" (Love), starring Isabelle Huppert as the babe of a woman hit by a stroke.

Britain's Loach allotment for the 17th time with the ball "The Angel's Share", about ex-offenders who about-face to whisky-making.

One of three French filmmakers in the race, Jacques Audiard has casting Cotillard as a killer-whale trainer hit by a tragedy in "Rust and Bone".

Romania's Cristian Mungiu, who biconcave the 2007 Palme for a Communist-era aborticide drama, allotment with "Beyond the Hills" about two orphans, while Italian Matteo Garrone takes on TV ability with "Reality".

Politics holds a aperture in the Palme d'Or chase with "After the Battle" by Egypt's Yousry Nasrallah, about the Arab Spring, while French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy shows an out-of-competition documentary on the Libyan war.

Asia gets a break with two South Koreans: Im Sang-soo with amative abstruseness "Taste of Money", and Hong Sang-soo with "In Another Country".

And Palme-winning Iranian Abbas Kiarostami allotment at 71 with "Like Someone in Love", a Japan-set account about a apprentice who works as a prostitute.

Last year's board chaired by Robert De Niro crowned Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life" starring Pitt and Sean Penn.