The Cannes Film Festival is about as prestigious as they come, but that doesn’t mean every film that premieres there is a winner. In fact, the largely French audiences who attend the screenings is famous for vocally booing any film they don’t like, including Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales, and Terrence Malick’s The Tree Of Life.

Today we got news that Baz Luhrmann’s splashy adaptation of the literary classic The Great Gatsby will open the festival, which has also named Steven Spielberg as the president of this year’s jury. That guarantees some star wattage on the red carpet with stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, but doesn’t necessarily signal that the film will be adored by critics or applauded by the audience.

Will The Great Gatsby be the latest high-profile film to be booed at Cannes? Take a look at films that have opened to the Cannes Film Festival in recent years to see how Gatsby stacks up.

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In both 2011 and 2012, the Cannes openers were rock-solid. Last year’s Moonrise Kingdom became the highest-grossing film of Wes Anderson’s career, while 2011’s Midnight In Paris received a number of Oscar nominations, including Best Picture.

Both were charming works from established directors; neither was particularly ambitious or groundbreaking for that artist. The Great Gatsby, on the other hand, comes from one of the most-read American novels of all time, has a hefty budget, and is coming off of Baz Luhrmann’s mega-misfire Australia, meaning that Baz has much more to prove this year.

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Going back a little further, Cannes Film Festival openers are a very mixed bag. In 2010, there was Ridley Scott’s forgettable Robin Hood, which did so-so business at the box office. Pixar’s very successful Up opened in 2009 (the first animated film to ever do so), proving to be a huge hit with critics and audience alike.

But the years prior weren’t quite so striking ― in 2008, it was the little-seen Blindness with Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo, which grossed under $4 million in the U.S.; in 2007, it was My Blueberry Nights starring Norah Jones, Jude Law, and Natalie Portman, which made less than $1 million in its domestic release. By contrast, the hugely profitable The Da Vinci Code rode the wave of popularity coming from the book in 2006, even if the film’s quality didn’t exactly see it on many Top 10 lists.

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The Da Vinci Code may be the best comparison for The Great Gatsby ― a potential blockbuster based on a well-known (though very different) book, complete with big stars. Such films don’t always do well with the artsy crowd that flocks to France every year ― Da Vinci was panned ― and The Great Gatsby still has to fight off some bad buzz resulting from it being moved from the prime real estate of December 2012 to the less-promising May 10 slot.

Awkwardly, The Great Gatsby’s opening in the U.S. is actually five days before it even opens Cannes on May 15. It will, of course, be presented in 3D. Baz previously found success at Cannes with his films Strictly Ballroom and Moulin Rouge, so will this be another? Or should Baz brace himself to be booed? We're hoping for the best, but that trailer doesn't leave us feeling super confident...

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