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COUNTRIES ONLINE
Join us on a journey through the greatest filmmaking countries. Our short articles summarize the history of cinema as seen through the eyes of specialists. Each text is brought to life by film extracts, photographs, posters, personal accounts and...
POLAND
BY CHRISTIAN SZAFRANIAK* In France, when we think of Polish cinema, a few names spring to mind: Polanski, Wajda, Kieslowski, Zulawski, Skolimowski, and maybe also Munk, Kawalerowicz and Has. A slightly older generation or the most eager...
GERMANY
BY WIM WENDERS* Dreamed up before the Second World War (Louis Lumière should have been its first President!), the Festival didn´t actually get underway until 1946 — one effect of Germany's most disastrous contribution not only to history,...
UNITED KINGDOM
BY GILLES JACOB “There is no such thing as British cinema,” François Truffaut once said, never at a loss for provocative exaggeration. Well, well! Who would have thought that our François suffered from historical...
Press review about the 2012 Selection
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Imprisoned star of 'Reality' impresses at Cannes
Agencie article - Jill Lawless - AP - 18 May 2012CANNES, France (AP) - The breakout performance at the Cannes Film Festival this year is Aniello Arena's turn as a Naples fishmonger who becomes obsessed with appearing on a "Big Brother"-style TV show in "Reality."But the star will not be walking the red carpet at the Italian movie's gala premiere Friday. He'll be where he has been for two decades - in prison.Arena is riveting in the film by "Gomorrah" director Matteo Garrone - lively,...
Exploitation, loneliness in sex tourism film at Cannes
Agencie article - Alexandria Sage - Reuters - 18 May 2012(Reuters) - Just who exploits and who is exploited in the sex tourism industry is the question asked in director Ulrich Seidl's "Paradise Love", a powerful and unsettling exploration of female loneliness and economic imbalance in Africa.Called "Paradies: Liebe", the German-language movie is in competition at the Cannes film festival and had its world premiere on Friday.The Austrian director chose as his subject white...
'Madagascar', stepping stone to Cannes glory: Ben Stiller
Agencie article - AFP - 18 May 2012CANNES, France, May 18, 2012 (AFP) - It may only be as a talking lion, but Ben Stiller joked on Thursday that coming to Cannes with the cartoon romp "Madagascar" could be a stepping stone to arthouse glory."To have my voice in a film at Cannes is a first step to actually being here in a movie!" the US actor quipped at a press conference before the red-carpet premiere of the billion-dollar zoo escape caper's third instalment.Stiller was in the...
