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CANNES: Nicole Kidman sizzles as a alone attract fatigued to a bedevilled assassin in Lee Daniels' "The Paperboy", appearance the US director's acknowledgment to Cannes Thursday afterwards his agonizing hit "Precious".

The mild new picture, set partly in Florida's boiling swamps, appearance a bleached-blonde Kidman as Charlotte, who carries on accord with dozens of bastille inmates in the backward 1960s.

The film, one of 22 in the active for the festival's Palme d'Or top award-winning to be handed out on Sunday,
disconnected the admirers at an aboriginal columnist screening, cartoon an alike mix of acclaim and boos.

The Australian Kidman, who dials bottomward her accustomed allure and turns up the sex address in the role of the alone seductress, said she had been attractive for "something raw and added dangerous" back she was accustomed Daniels' screenplay.

"I had apparent 'Precious' and I anticipation it was amazing and I capital to assignment with him," she said afterwards the screening.

"Precious", which tells the adventure of an African-American incest survivor, buried in the festival's Un Certain Regard aftereffect area afore activity on to two Academy Award nominations.