Glamour, grit and politics at this year's Cannes Film Festival Veteran directors Ken Loach and Terrence Malick head the line-up of a gritty and highly political Cannes film festival next month, according to its director Thierry Fremaux. The world's biggest film festival, which sees itself as the "Olympics of cinema", will open with cult US director Jim Jarmusch's "The Dead Don't Die." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES