The Daily 2010

18 May

The Village International - showcasing world cinema

the 18.05.2010 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2010 at 4:52 PM

The Village international, which first opened in 2000, offers festival-goers a tour of the world of cinema. Each participating country has its own pavilion which serves as an information and meeting point where it can show off its cultural identity, its institutions, its film-making industry and its artists. Since its creation...
DID YOU KNOW? ...Info Desks

the 18.05.2010 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 18.05.2010 at 7:21 PM

For any complementary information about the Festival or the Marché, you have at your disposal "Info Desks" marked with a yellow "I". There are located: > At the Palais: - Level 01: Central aisle - Level 01: "Puits de lumière" - Level 0: main entrance, in the back, between the elevators - Level 3 : "Rue intérieure" > At the...
Tamara Drew by Stephen Frears - press conference

the 18.05.2010 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2010 at 12:33 PM

The press conference for the film by Stephen Frears, Tamara Drew, took place this afternoon. The director was accompanied by actors Bill Camp, Dominic Cooper, Tamsin Greig and Luke Evans, producer Alison Owen, script writer Moira Buffini and the author of the graphic novel Posy Simmonds. Selected excerpts Posy Simmonds on whether...
Abbas Kiarostami : "My films are not derived from any art form"

the 18.05.2010 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2010 at 11:23 AM

Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, and Abbas Kiarostami, the director of Certified Copy (Copie conforme), his new feature film presented this Tuesday in Competition, answered journalists’ questions at noon today. This press conference was marked by the announcement that director Jafar Panahi, still detained in an Iranian prison,...
The 10th Birthday of the Residence of the Cinéfondation

the 18.05.2010 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2010 at 12:00 PM

The Festival de Cannes is to celebrate on May 19th 10 years of the Résidence, created in 2000 to encourage the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers. To illustrate the action undertaken this last decade, the Festival has invited several of its former residents to come defend their current project: the Iranian Mitra Farahani,...
Des Hommes et des Dieux (Of Men and Gods) by Xavier Beauvois - Press Conference

the 18.05.2010 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2010 at 12:35 PM

The press conference for Xavier Beauvois’ film, Des hommes et des Dieux (Of Men and Gods), was this morning. The director was accompanied by actors Michael Lonsdale and Lambert Wilson, and the scriptwriter Etienne Comar. Chosen extracts. Lambert Wilson on his personal religious convictions: I can’t bear any sort of dogma,...
5 X Favela, interview with Carlos Diegues: "In cinema, we make films to get to know each other."

the 18.05.2010 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2010 at 12:37 PM

Invited as a member of the Cinéfondation and Short Film Jury, Brazilian director Carlos Diegues presents the choral film 5 x Favela, por nos mesmos in Special Screening as the film’s producer. In this film, Manaíra Carneiro, Wagner Novais Luciano, Vidigal Cadu Barcellos and Luciana Bezerra–all filmmakers who grew up in the...
Certified Copy (Copie Conforme) by Abbas Kiarostami

the 18.05.2010 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2010 at 12:37 PM

After thirty-nine films, thirteen Festival participations, and one Palme d’or, Abbas Kiarostami returns to Competition at Cannes with Certified Copy. The Iranian director presents his first foreign feature film, screened at 11.15 and 22.30 at the Grand Théâtre Lumière. From the casting to the shoot location, Abbas Kiarostami...
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, finale and end of the end of Communism by Andrei Ujica

the 18.05.2010 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2010 at 12:38 PM

With The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, Andrei Ujica has just finished his trilogy on the fall of Communism. Edited from archival images, this final segment focuses on the personality of the dictator who left his mark on Romanian history over the second half of the 20th century. For his first participation in the Festival,...
GUESTS IN ATTENDANCE IN CANNES

the 18.05.2010 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 18.05.2010 at 5:19 PM

The VIP guests expected to be in attendance today are: Emil ABOSSOLO M'BO, Aure ATIKA, Alberto BARBERA, Mélanie BARNIER, Emmanuelle BEART, Kate BECKINSALE, BEKHTI, Mélanie BERNIER, Juliette BINOCHE, Dominique BLANC, Cate BLANCHETT, Louise BOURGOIN, Stephane BRIZE, Valeria BRUNI TEDESCHI, Tim BURTON, Guillaume CANET, Emmanuel ...
Gael Garcia Bernal, exclusive interview

the 18.05.2010 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 18.05.2010 at 3:03 PM

Gael García Bernal made his debut in Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s Amores Perros and has already acted with some of the most famous directors, including Alfonso Cuarón, Walter Salles, Michel Gondry, Jim Jarmusch. He has also directed short films and Deficit, his first feature. In 2005, he founded the production company "Canana"...
Of Men and Gods (Des Hommes et des dieux) by Xavier Beauvois in Competition

the 18.05.2010 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2010 at 12:39 PM

Actor-director Xavier Beauvois, who made Don’t Forget You Are Going to Die (N’oublie pas que tu vas Mourir) (1995), returns to the Competition this year with Of Men and Gods (Des Hommes et des Dieux ), a drama based on a true story. After starting out as an assistant director for Manoel de Oliveira, Xavier Beauvois won the...
René Clément, Jean Renoir and André De Toth at Cannes Classics

the 18.05.2010 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2010 at 12:39 PM

The screenings begin in the Salle Buñuel at 15:00 with one of the earliest award winners of the Festival: The Battle of the Rails (La Bataille du Rail) by René Clément was awarded the Prix International du Jury in 1946. One year earlier, the director shot the short film Iron Resistance (Résistance de Fer), a series of heroic...
Blue Valentine by Derek Cianfrance in Un Certain Regard

the 18.05.2010 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2010 at 12:40 PM

Blue Valentine by the American director Derek Cianfrance is presented in Un Certain Regard today at 14:00 and 22:00 in the Salle Debussy. The film, in the running for the Caméra d’Or, was shown at the last Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prize. Derek Cianfrance is both director and co-scriptwriter. It took more...
Make Room for The Short Film Corner!

the 18.05.2010 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2010 at 11:32 AM

As the name suggests, the Short Film Corner is devoted to short films, with 1,728 entries from 86 countries this year. It is located at the entrance to the Marché du Film. Interview with Alice Kharoubi, project director. Tell us about the Short Film Corner The Short Film Corner belongs to the Festival de Cannes’...
Tamara Drewe, bomb threat issued by Stephen Frears

the 18.05.2010 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2010 at 12:41 PM

Three years after being President of the Feature Film Jury, Stephen Frears is in the Official Selection for the third time after Prick up your Ears (Competition, 1987) and The Van (Competition, 1996). Tamara Drewe, presented today Out of Competition, is a satire on the failure of contemporary feminism. After “Dangerous Liasons”...
Shekhar Kapur, exclusive interview

the 18.05.2010 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 18.05.2010 at 12:06 PM

Shekhar Kapur is one of the rare filmmakers whose work spans India and the West. Whereas Masoom and Mr India are considered cult films in India, it was Bandit Queen, presented in Cannes in 1994, that brought him international recognition. His next shooting is called Paani, based upon a book by Maude Barlow, and it will tell a dark...
Un Certain Regard reveals Chanda's Secret

the 18.05.2010 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2010 at 11:35 AM

Life above All is the third film by Oliver Schmitz to be selected for Un Certain Regard. This politically engaged South African director presented Mapantsula in 1988 and Hijack Stories in 2001 at Cannes, both of which treat the subject of apartheid. With Life above All, Oliver Schmitz talks about AIDS, a polemical subject in his...
The Lips (Los Labios), reaching out to others

the 18.05.2010 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2010 at 11:35 AM

Argentinean cinema will be represented again today in Un Certain Regard with The Lips (Los Labios) (Salle Debussy, 16:30), the latest product of a collaboration between Santiago Loza and Ivan Fund taht began in 2008. Above all, the two Argentinean filmmakers wanted their latest co-direction, the fourth since 2008, to reflect their...