Cannes: Watch The First Clip From Gus Van Sant's 'Sea Of Trees' Starring Matthew McConaughey And Ken Watanabe

On the surface, Gus Van Sant's upcoming, Cannes-contending "Sea Of Trees" might seem like a minimalist downer: a suicidal American (Matthew McConaughey) on his way to die befriends a Japanese man (Ken Watanabe) lost in the dense Aokigahara forest near Mt. Fuji, and the two search for a way out. But according to McConaughey, there's positivity to be found.

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“If you give somebody a one-liner pitch on this, and they go, ‘Oh, it’s the suicide movie.’ I say, no, it’s life affirming — and for me, it fit right into my own sort of personal philosophy of Just Keep Living," he says in the press notes for the film. " 'The Sea Of Trees' is a life-affirming story that should leave a lot of people questioning their own lives, in good ways. When they leave the theater, they will ponder: what have they taken care of since they’ve...