Fair Game starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn

     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