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The Great Gatsby set to open Cannes festival

The Great Gatsby, with Leonardo di Caprio starring in a remake of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, will open the 66th Cannes Film Festival, the organisers announced on Tuesday.

The Great Gatsby set to open Cannes festival
Leonardo di Caprio, start of the forthcoming "The Great Gatsby", pictured in Los Angeles on January 13th, 2013. Photo: Frederick J. Brown/AFP

The film, screened out of competition, will be shown on May 15th, coinciding with its launch across France.

Cannes, widely rated as the world's top film festival, climaxes on May 26th with awards selected by a jury headed this year by Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg.

Set on the US East Coast of the Roaring Twenties, Gatsby stars di Caprio as Fitzgerald's mysterious millionaire, battling to win the heart of a girl he courted in his youth.

The film was scripted by Australian director Baz Luhrman and his long-time co-screenwriter Craig Pearce. It will be shown in 3D, for the second time in the festival's history, after the animated picture Up in 2009.

Luhrmann, 50, is a familiar figure at Cannes, where he has been twice honoured, for Strictly Ballroom in 1992 and Moulin Rouge! in 2001. He said he was thrilled to return to the Riviera city.

"F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote some of the most poignant and beautiful passages of his extraordinary novel just a short distance away, at a villa outside St. Raphael," he said in a statement.

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FOOD AND DRINK

Three things to know about the new Paris cheese museum

The Musée Vivant du Fromage is due to open its doors in early June, promising a unique immersive and interactive journey into France’s ‘culinary and terroir heritage’.

Three things to know about the new Paris cheese museum

Paris will soon be home to a cheese museum.

The venue, on Rue Saint-Louis en l’Île, in the fourth arrondissement, will open to visitors on June 3rd, sending – no doubt – clouds of cheesy odours wafting daily down the street.

It will be at the same location as the former restaurant ‘Nos Ancêtres Les Gaulois’ (Our ancestors the Gauls), with the objective of becoming “an essential meeting place” for cheese lovers, as well as both novices and professionals within the industry.

Here are a few things to know about the new cheese museum;

It will be interactive

Fans of camembert, chèvre, brie, morbier, Roquefort and brebis, assemble! The museum promises an educational and fully interactive tour of France’s historic cheese heritage, including the science and varied tradition of cheese-making.

The first portion will give an overview of the ‘culture’ of cheese. Then, you will learn about its history, as well as how it is made and finish off with a tasting (dégustation).

READ MORE: Best Briehaviour: Your guide to French cheese etiquette

There’s a dairy and creamery

Part of the tour features a fully functional dairy, where visitors can witness cheese being produced before their very eyes. 

There are two goals for this part of the museum – to help people discover the different regions of France and their iconic cheeses, as well as to encourage young people  to consider careers in the farming and dairy industry, which is enduring something of a recruitment crisis in France.

You will also be able to purchase cheese and souvenirs at the museum’s boutique.

It can host private events

The museum can be booked for private catered events for up to 150 people in the evenings, from 7pm, with or without the services of a cheese expert, who can guide guests through tastings and demonstrations. 

READ ALSO 7 tips for buying French cheese

Tickets are advertised at €20 for adults and €10 for children. For more information and to book a visit, log on to website of the Musée Vivant du fromage. Blessed are the cheese makers!

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