Gerard Depardieu’s starring role as a disgraced politician based on Dominique Strauss-Kahn will be shown for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival.
The controversial Welcome to New York has been much-anticipated but will not be shown as part of the official festival programme.
Instead, it will be shown at midnight on Friday at a private beach screening.
It tells of how a French politician is accused of attempted rape in a New York hotel room.
Strauss-Kahn quit his role as boss of the International Monetary Fund in 2011 after being accused of a sex attack on a maid in a Manhattan hotel. Once seen as a French presidential hopeful, Socialist Strauss-Kahn also had to give up his political ambitions.
Charges were eventually dropped and Strauss-Kahn subsequently reached a settlement with the maid. Two other cases against him were also dismissed.
The two-hour film, in which Depardieu plays a character called Deveraux, was funded mostly in the US and the director Abel Ferrara is also American, BBC informs.
