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Category: Cannes Film Festival
21
May
#Cannes2013 interview with Henri Terreaux, Manager of the Orange Wi-Fi Café
Photographers, journalists, radio stations and television channels, and other media professionals need to be able to send pictures to their agencies throughout the world so that they can provide you with pictures of fthe Cannes Festival within increasingly short timeframes. In the past, we had carrier pigeons, and now we have broadband! Everything happens at 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 A review of “As I Lay Dying” by James Franco
“As I Lay Dying” is actor-director James Franco’s adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel by the same name. Here’s the trailer: As I Lay Dying – Official Trailer #1 [HD] (2013… par myfilm-gr In competition in the Un certain regard category of the 66th Cannes Film Festival, this film did not generate consensus among critics, and [...]
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. [...]
20
May
“The Last Day on Mars” #Cannes2013
Directed by: Ruairi Robinson / Starring: Liev Schreiber, Romola Garai, and Elias Koteas / Country: Ireland / Year: 2013 The plot: With the last day on Mars coming to a close, a team of astronauts at the Tantatus base station discover something that just might prove to be groundbreaking: microscopic traces of life appear on rock [...]
20
May
#Cannes2013 review of the film Omar
Omar is the new feature film from the Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad, selected for the official competition in the Un certain regardcategory at the 66th Cannes Festival. Here’s an extract from the film: It tells the story of three childhood friends, three Palestinians, against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The action is set in the [...]
20
May
Film Review: Shield of Straw #Cannes2013
Japanese cinema is alive and well at the 66th Cannes Film Festival, lucky for me! Following on from Like Father, Like Son (Soshite Chichi ni Naru), we now have Shield of Straw (Wara no Tate) from the excellent Takashi Miike. A young convicted pedophile and murderer has just been arrested. The police security unit has [...]
20
May
#cannes2013 Me, Myself and Mum, by Guillaume Gallienne
Taking a play and adapting it to the big screen can often prove to be a tricky exercise, but with Me, Myself and Mum, Guillaume Gallienne demonstrates that the feat is completely feasible if you put your heart into it. Just like Anthony Chen’s Ilo Ilo, Guillaume Gallienne’s first feature film has been selected in [...]
20
May
a review of Borgman #Cannes2013
Last night at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, the Netherlands took center stage at the Théâtre des Lumières. The entire Borgman film cast and crew were in attendance, gathered in the stalls of Cannes’ most beautiful theatre to witness the public’s reaction to the unveiling of their ‘baby’. Here are my thoughts on the screening [...]
20
May
#cannes2013 Ilo Ilo, by Anthony Chen
Selected in the Director’s Fortnight competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Ilo Ilo chronicles the relationship between the Lim family and their newly arrived maid, Teresa. In the 1970’s, the Singapore government implemented a Foreign Maid Scheme to encourage women to join the country’s workforce and boost the economy. Over the years, thousands of women [...]
