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As the Cannes Film Festival opens Wednesday, audiences will get a taste of an Oregon band that scored a featured short. April Baer reports.

3 Leg Torso plays a classy, instrumental style that borrows from jazz, tango, and klezmer music.

The band has done several other film scores, the latest for Robin Willis' Walter Ate a Peanut.

Bela Balogh "It's a dark film, you know? It's kind of dark, but it's a humorous dark."

3 Leg's violinist Bela Balogh helped compose the score for this mildly sinister black and white family drama. He says the band is delighted to get attention at Cannes for what amounted to one day's work.

Bela Balogh   "I think Sundance passed us up on it. When we got the email oh gosh the film is going to Cannes, we thought, Jeez that is a milestone for us!"

The film is part of an auxiliary contest, the Short Film Corner. It will be available on demand at 40 screening booths at Cannes.

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