In this lull before the whirlwind of the 63rd edition starts, the question that I've been pondering is this: why have these past Cannes discoveries never crossed the Channel for a UK release?
Here we are in Cannes, the day before the official opening: the Tuesday Lull. It's the calm before the storm, which, traditionally, is not all that calm. The red carpet is still being hammered into place and the Grand Palais prepared by grey-suited officials bustling about everywhere. Last year, my friend Nigel Andrews of the Financial Times told me he saw a Cannes local walk down the Croisette, survey the scene and loudly sigh: "Les conneries commencent …" ("The bullshit begins …"). For journalists covering the festival, this is a time for savouring all the possibilities of movie experience that must surely be available in the next 10 days, before you're suddenly plunged straight into it, and there never seems to be enough time,...
Here we are in Cannes, the day before the official opening: the Tuesday Lull. It's the calm before the storm, which, traditionally, is not all that calm. The red carpet is still being hammered into place and the Grand Palais prepared by grey-suited officials bustling about everywhere. Last year, my friend Nigel Andrews of the Financial Times told me he saw a Cannes local walk down the Croisette, survey the scene and loudly sigh: "Les conneries commencent …" ("The bullshit begins …"). For journalists covering the festival, this is a time for savouring all the possibilities of movie experience that must surely be available in the next 10 days, before you're suddenly plunged straight into it, and there never seems to be enough time,...
- 5/11/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
This month TV5MONDE premieres an array of critically acclaimed films including a collection of family-themed films ranging from a story that playfully shows the relationship between a father and son in the summer of 1969, to another mad tale that reflects the irony that takes place when an heiress becomes the unwitting instrument of the fatal demise of several family members. Here.s a glimpse at some of the films playing in April: Thursday, April 1, 2010 8:30 pm Et / 5:30 pm Pt Ce Jour-La (aka That Day) .Unfolding with the atmospheric and drolly sinister tone of a seemingly conventional murder mystery, Ce jour-là is a mischievously imaginative, deliriously hypnotic, and whimsical exposition on compulsion, personal will, greed,...
- 3/19/2010
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
PARIS -- Raoul Ruiz will return to his Chilean roots with Livre a Rendre (A Book of Influence), Elezevir Films, the French co-producers of the 3.2 million ($3.8 million) French-Italian-Spanish-Romanian project, said Friday. The film, which starts in 1932 with a chance encounter between a Chilean pilot and a 10-year-old boy, explores a theme close to writer-director Ruiz's heart. A former political activist, Ruiz fled his native Chile in 1973 to seek exile in Paris. The project unfolds over decades to span the horrors of World War II, in which the pilot participates, to the atrocities of the Pinochet era. It will star Bernard Giraudeau, who played in Ruiz's That Day, Spanish actress Marisa Paredes and French actors Gregoire Colin and Marianne Denicourt. The European co-production, which has received funding from film finance body Eurimages, will be shot in France and Romania starting March 2004. Co-producers include Denis Carot and Marie Masmonteil for Paris-based Elzevir Films; Spanish producer Marta Esteban, who recently set up new production company Impossible Films; Paulo Maria Spina of Italy's Revolver; and Ion Marinescu of Romania's Atlantis Film.
- 11/28/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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