Hollywood veteran and Italian new comer shine at Cannes

Hollywood star Tommy Lee Jones and Italian newcomer Alice Rohrwacher both presented their films in competition at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, on Sunday.

Jones' film, The Homesman, inspired by the novel of the same name by Glendon Swarthout, is the fifth feature film directed by Jones, a veteran Hollywood actor who has been active in film since the 1970s.

In the movie, Mary Bee Cuddy,31, lives a solitary existence in a mid-western frontier town of the United States in the 19th century.