Source: Variety

BRUSSELS — Annette Bening, Terry Gilliam and Gregg Araki will be guests of honor at the Deauville American Film Festival, which unspools Sept. 3-12.

All three will have retrospectives at the fest, with Bening and Araki presenting new work in advance of general release in Gaul.

Bening has “Mother and Child” in competition plus “The Kids Are All Right” as a preview. Helmer Araki will introduce “Kaboom.”

Scribe Joyce Carol Oates will also guest in Deauville, collecting fest’s literary award for “Blonde.” Originally published in 2000, her book about Marilyn Monroe has a new edition out in Gaul.

Announcing further program details Monday, fest claimed a world premiere for John Madden’s “The Debt,” also slated to play at Toronto in September.

Thriller stars Sam Worthington, Helen Mirren and Jessica Chastain as former Israeli agents haunted by a 1965 mission to capture a Nazi war criminal.

Other previews include Woody Allen’s “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger,” Joel Schumacher’s “Twelve” and the locally dubbed version of “Despicable Me.”

Indie fare getting exposure at the fest without a Sundance stamp of approval includes Richard Levine’s “Every Day” with Liev Schreiber and Helen Hunt, and Keith Bearden’s “Meet Monica Velour” with Kim Cattrall.

Fest’s factual program, Uncle Sam’s Docs, has an introspective feel, with Leon Gast’s “Smash His Camera” and Adrian Grenier’s “Teenage Paparazzo” both lifting the lid on the celebrity press.

Meanwhile, Elijah Drenner explores U.S. exploitation pics in “American Grindhouse” and Don Hahn looks at Disney’s revival in “Waking Sleeping Beauty.”