While Markus Schleinzer’s Michael – the story of an Austrian paedophile who keeps a boy hostage in is cellar – courted controversy in the official competition, elsewhere at Cannes it was announced that a biopic about Natascha Kampusch, herself held prisoner in a basement for eight years, is set to go before the cameras.

Peter Reichard, who interviewed Kampusch for German television, has written a draft script.

The most loved actor in Hollywood

- Jodie Foster's slightly puzzling description of Mel Gibson, star of The Beaver