Cannes (France) (AFP) – A jury led by Cate Blanchett will crown the winner of the coveted Palme d’Or for best film at Cannes Saturday, after a politically charged festival rocked by controversy and the #MeToo movement. Movies by Spike Lee, South Korea’s Lee Chang-dong, Italian Matteo Garrone and Nadine Labaki of Lebanon — one […]
Deborah Cole
Deborah Cole has been an AFP correspondent, Berlin-based since '95. She covers Angela Merkel, Europe's top economy and foreign policy, and adds "but they let me do the film fests too." Her work has also appeared in Business Insider, AlterNet, Yahoo, Fox News, New York Post, France 24, The Jakarta Post, Mail & Guardian, Daily Star (Lebanon), and The Citizen (South Africa).
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