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CANNES, France Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter s Basilica. It s a rebuke to the faith that the building represents. Cannes touchingly adheres to a belief that film can be intelligent, moving and grand. Godzilla is a big, ugly, ungainly device to give teenagers the impression they are seeing a movie. It was the festival s closing film, coming at the end like the horses in a parade, perhaps for the same reason.
It rains all through the Godzilla, and it s usually night. Well, of course it is: That makes the special effects easier to obscure. If you never get a clear look at the monster, you can t see how shoddy it is. Steven Spielberg opened Jurassic Park by giving us a good, long look at the dinosaurs in full sunlight, and our imaginations leapt up. Godzilla hops out of sight like a camera-shy kangaroo.