At halftime, there's drama over top films

May 22, 2007 Passing the midpoint of the Festival de Cannes' In Competition screenings, Wong Kar Wai's romantic road picture "My Blueberry Nights," which kicked things off to mixed reviews, is looking better and better in the rear-view mirror. The cool, cerebral tone poem starring Norah Jones on an American road trip to love, with Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz and Natalie Portman along for the ride, could float in the jury's collective memory like a melody from Ry Cooder's guitar. For a chance at the Palme d'Or, however, it will have to overtake the high-powered Romanian vehicle "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," which delivers a storming tale of bravery in the face of pitiless repression along with first-rate filmmaking and bravura performances.

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