CANNES, France (Reuters) - The neon-lit streets of Tokyo and the corridors of the Louvre museum in Paris provide the setting for a trio of stylized East-meets-West films that caused audience walk-outs as the Cannes festival ended. Gaspar Noe's "Enter the Void," a drug-fueled trip to the afterlife, and Isabel Coixet's romantically charged "Map of the Sounds of Tokyo ...

Fifty years after France's "New Wave" raised a storm at Cannes with Francois Truffaut's iconic arthouse "The 400 Blows", some critics believe the cult school of cinema has stymied French film. The term "new wave" was first coined in 1957 in the nation's press as a general reference to the new generation. But it quickly came to ...