The American director, Doug Liman, presents his first film in Competition at the Festival de Cannes. Fair Game is the backdrop for the 2005 Plame-Wilson scandal, where Valeria Plame (played by Naomi Watts), a CIA agent in the nuclear non-proliferation department, sees her reports on uranium trafficking between Niger and Iraq ignored by the Bush adminstration to justify the commence of the Iraq war. Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq.
Fair Game is a huge acting showcase for stars Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. This film of political repercussions and family drama premieres Thursday night at 7:30 PM at the Grand Lumiere Theatre.
-Summer Hawkins
20.05.2010 | Cannes's blog
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