Cannes Diary: 201314 of 21
5/16: Last night was the Calvin Klein party. Here's what I learned from it. Nicole Kidman is a pro. She was freezing to death in this leather outfit but gamely kept on even as the wind whipped through. She's also rather sweet. She had not met Carey Mulligan before and she was extremely excited to tell her how much she adored her work.
Rooney Mara is painfully shy. She kept mostly to herself all night. When Harvey Weinstein pulled her onstage at the Weinstein Company presentation she declined to speak.
Michael B. Jordan is going to be a huge star. He has an incredible performance in Fruitvale Station that is going to catapult him onto even more shortlists in Hollywood as more people see the film.
Berenice Bejo proves she's a helluvan actress in writer/director Asghar Farhadi's Le Passé. She stands out in a stand-out cast (that also includes Tahar Rahim from A Prophet) as Marie, a woman who asks her husband to return from Iran so she can divorce him. This tough film about human nature that is now likely the front-runner for the Palme d'Or. Not A Separation but still superb filmmaking.
Rooney Mara is painfully shy. She kept mostly to herself all night. When Harvey Weinstein pulled her onstage at the Weinstein Company presentation she declined to speak.
Michael B. Jordan is going to be a huge star. He has an incredible performance in Fruitvale Station that is going to catapult him onto even more shortlists in Hollywood as more people see the film.
Berenice Bejo proves she's a helluvan actress in writer/director Asghar Farhadi's Le Passé. She stands out in a stand-out cast (that also includes Tahar Rahim from A Prophet) as Marie, a woman who asks her husband to return from Iran so she can divorce him. This tough film about human nature that is now likely the front-runner for the Palme d'Or. Not A Separation but still superb filmmaking.
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