Film on Dianas death stirs up Cannes festival

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Film on Dianas death stirs up Cannes festival

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The movie is a reenactment of Princess Dianas death in a car accident in Paris.

13 May,2011 08:53 am

A documentary film that features a paparazzi photograph of Princess Diana dying after a car crash in Paris in 1997 has stirred controversy, three days before it is shown to the media and potential buyers in Cannes.‘Unlawful Killing’ directed by British actor Keith Allen and financed by Muhammad al-Fayed, whose son Dodi died with Diana, is due to be screened at the Cannes film festival today.A spokesman for the films backers sought to play down the significance of the controversial image being aired, after a friend of Princess Diana expressed anger at the movie.The picture has been published in full before, in many parts of the world, the spokesman said in an email to a British news agency.The movie aims to prove that a 2007/8 inquest into Dianas death was a cover-up by the establishment and dark forces, according to a statement from the film makers.Fayed has long maintained that the couple was killed on the orders of Queen Elizabeths husband, Prince Philip. Fayed believes the royal family could not bear the idea of Diana marrying a Muslim.