Clooney lights up festival screen as Cork set for movie magic

THE 53rd Corona Cork Film Festival opened yesterday with the screening of Burn After Reading, the latest Coen brothers film starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney.

The week-long festival will screen over 300 films before closing next Sunday with The Silence of Lorna which is directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne.

Festival highlights include Hunger which won the Camera d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and was written by Enda Walsh.