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latimes.com - 5/19/2008

Cannes is a tough market for independent films

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Purchasers of small, unconventional movies are scarce and increasingly skittish. > CANNES, France -- "Che," an epic drama about the Cuban revolutionary, and "Baby on Board," a low-budget sex comedy, have scarcely anything in common except actors speaking lines in movies projected on a big screen. But both have come to the French Riviera with the same goal: finding distribution in an increasingly unreceptive ...

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