Former Palme d’Or winners Nanni Moretti and Gus van Sant made an appearance on the red carpet on day three of the Cannes Film Festival.<br /><br /> Italian director Moretti is in this year’s race with “Mia Madre,” a touching movie about a troubled filmmaker and the death of her mother. Many in the audience were moved to tears during Saturday night’s showing.<br /><br /> Gus van Sant’s “The Sea of Trees” was greeted harshly by critics and was loudly booed in its initial screenings to Cannes media.<br /><br /> It is about a man who wrestles with guilt over a bitter marriage and travels to Japan to kill himself.<br /><br /> Variety called the film “a risibly long-winded drama.” The Hollywood Reporter slammed it as “woefully sentimental and maudlin.”<br /><br /> The Cannes Film Festival continues until Sunday, May 24.
