Francis Ford Coppola is among that elite group of directors – with Emir Kusturica, Bille August, Shohei Imamura and Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne – who are two-time winners of the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Coppola, who won with for The Conversation(1974) and Apocalypse Now(1979), may have hoped for a historic hat-trick with his new movie, Tetro, but Cannes offered it an out-of-competition slot, which Coppola turned down.

“While I very much appreciate the invitation,” he said, “this is an independent film, self-financed and self released, and I felt that being invited for a non-competition gala screening wasn’t true to the personal and independent nature of this film.”