The Associated Press reports on "Sin City" in Cannes, where Frank Miller defended the film:

"Sin City" isn't typical fare at the Cannes Film Festival, more accustomed to art house flicks than Frank Miller's dark world of tough guys in trench coats and scantily clad ladies. At a news conference Wednesday, where "Sin City" is competing for the top prize, a few journalists wanted to know: Is the movie sexist? And what about all that violence?

Miller, the comic book artist who co-directed the film with Robert Rodriguez, pooh-poohed the questions. "When I sat down to do 'Sin City,' I decided the guys would all be tough, the women would all be beautiful and the cars would all be vintage," he said. "The dirty secret of cartoonists is that we tend to write stories that give us fun things to draw," he added.