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| | Cannes 96 - Films (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Director Michael Winterbottom, on the strength of the TV drama Family and his feature debut, Butterfly Kiss, was by the end of 1994 the hottest young director in Britain. |
 | | With the support of BBC Films' Mark Shivas, Winterbottom proposed an adaptation of his favourite novel, Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, and prior to Cannes last year, PolyGram agreed to finance the film. |
 | | For Winterbottom, by way of contrast, Jude looks set to be the film that confirms his arrival in the big league. |
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