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23
May
#cannes2013 day 9: snapshot of the day
As the sun shone on the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, Céline Louis spent a day at the heart of the Orange Beach alongside Anne Rodhain, public relations and corporate events manager at Orange, and her team. Discover all the hard work achieved by this very special squad on Friday, in a detailed account on [...]
23
May
#cannes2013 the rendez-vous of déjà vu, by Antonin Peretjatko
Used to directing shorts since 2002, Antonin Peretjatko was in Cannes on Thursday to present his first feature film, The Rendez-Vous of Déjà Vu, in the Directors’ Fortnight selection. The film is set in modern day France. Hector meets Truquette on July 14th, Bastille Day, and falls in love with her. He decides to take [...]
23
May
#cannes2013 Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight, by Stephen Frears
Stephen Frears was in Cannes on Wednesday to present his latest feature film Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fightin a special screening we were lucky to attend. And special it was, as none other than Brian de Palmahimself was sitting in the audience, waiting to see what the Louisville Lip’s greatest fight was all about. As expected, [...]
23
May
#cannes2013 Les Apaches, by Thierry de Peretti
For his first feature film entitled Les Apaches, selected in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at the Cannes Film Festival, Corsican director Thierry de Peretti paints a scary picture of today’s youth. Aziz is a young Arab living in Corsica. During the summer holidays, he helps his father out cleaning a luxurious house. One night, after [...]
22
May
#cannes2013 nos héros sont morts ce soir, by David Perrault
Selected in the Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival, Nos Héros sont Morts ce Soir proved to be a pleasant surprise and I’m tempted to go and see it again when it’s released on the big screen (fingers crossed). Set in the 1960’s, the film follows Victor, a troubled ex-legionnaire returning from [...]
22
May
#cannes2013 interview with chef Bruno Oger
The Orange Beach may be the ideal location for a business get-together or simply finding out about the latest technology, but that doesn’t diminish its status as one of the Croisette’s gastronomic hotspots at this 2013 Cannes Film Festival. This year with Chef Bruno Oger at the controls, it’s truer than ever. As a native [...]
21
May
#cannes2013 bastards, by Claire Denis
The Cannes Film Festival is always full of surprises, some good, some bad, but you always manage to get something out of it. Selected in the Un Certain Regard competition, Bastards is one film that should make some noise… In Bastards, her first feature film since 2009 (White Material), Claire Denis talks about family in [...]
21
May
#cannes2013 Los Dueños, by Agustin Toscano & Ezequiel Radusky
In competition for the Camera d’or in the Semaine de la Critique selection, Los Dueños turned out to be the second disappointment of my Festival de Cannes experience. The story, set in the North of Argentina, is about Sergio and his family working in an estate, taking care of the cattle and looking after the [...]
20
May
#cannes2013 day 6: snapshot of the day
From Borgman to Me, Myself and Mum and The Summer of Flying Fish, we’ve been graced with some great films on Day 6 of the Cannes Film Festival. And coming out of the theatre, we were happy to see that the sun was waiting for us, illuminating the Croisette and the thousands of festival-goers, including [...]
20
May
#cannes2013 the summer of flying fish, by Marcela Said
After Alejandro Jodorowsky’s surrealist biopic La Danza de la Realidad, we’re back in Chile for a more modern tale, focusing this time on the Mapuche, a marginalised community living in the south of the country. Coming from the world of documentary, Chilean director Marcela Said had been longing to write and shoot a feature film. [...]
