The 66th Cannes Film Festival kicks off on Wednesday night with a gala screening of Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby,” and we all know what that means:
The Grand Theatre Lumiere will reverberate with the sound of booing.
Oh, most of the Cannes audience will most likely applaud Luhrmann’s amped-up take on the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic. But scattered (and occasionally not-so-scattered) boos are a time honored Cannes tradition, and it’s hard to imagine that a few audience members won’t jeer the extravagant artifice of this “Gatsby.”
Then again, a few catcalls will just put Luhrmann in some august company.