The Daily 2011

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Joseph Cedar gave a press conference on Footnote, his film In Competition. He was accompanied by his two leading actors, Lior Ashkenazi and Shlomo Bar Aba.   In the film, Uriel wears a kippa, but his father, Eliezer, doesn´t. Joseph Cedar explains why: Generally speaking, the opposite is true:the father is the one who upholds...

The filmmaker  Markus Schleinzer and the whole crew of the film Michael, a story about the relationship between a pedophile and his young victim, were interviewed by the press this Sunday. Excerpts. The director talked about the relationship between Michael and Wolfgang, the two characters in the film:"I was interested in showing...

The Dardenne brothers, in Competition for the fifth time with Le Gamin au vélo (The Kid on the Bike), answered questions from  journalists, accompanied by their producer, Denis Freyd and their two lead actors: Cécile De France and the young Thomas Doret.    The choice of actorss Jean-Pierre Dardenne : "We saw 150 kids, and...

The French Culture Minister, Frédéric Mitterrand, has conferred the “Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters” medal on Faye Dunaway. The American comedian, who was deeply moved by this decoration, occupies the place of honour on the poster advertising the 64th Festival de Cannes.   "It makes me particularly happy to pay...

The actors expected to be in attendance in Cannes today are: Tetsuya     AKIKAWA, Helena ALBERGARIA, Ariane ASCARIDE, Lior Louis ASHKANAZI, Yvan    ATTAL, Irene AZUELA, Antonio BANDERAS, Shlomo BAR ABA, Alice BARNOLE, Maurice BARTHELEMY, Claude BAZ.MOUSSAWBAA, Berenice BEJO, Emmanuelle BERCOT, Astrid BERGES-FRISBEY, Fan   ...

Michel Hazanavicius talks about the origins of his film, The Artist, In Competition, accompanied by his two leading actors Bérénice Béjo and Jean Dujardin, his producer Thomas Langmann, his composer Ludovic Bource, and his director of photography Guillaume Schiffman. Michel Hazanavicius on his choice of a silent film "It was an...

Presented in the Special Screenings, Duch, le Maître des forges de l’enfer (Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell) is a documentary about the Khmer Rouge genocide. This film is a new addition to the works by Rithy Panh on the crimes at S21, which follows Bophana, une tragédie cambodgienne (1996) and S21, la machine de mort khmère...

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are amongst the most awarded directors in the Festival de Cannes' history. Le Gamin au vélo, (The Kid with a Bike) is a minimalist story about a father-son relationship, and is their fifth film In Competition. Jérémie Rénier and Olivier Gourmet,  two Dardenne faithfuls, star alongside newcomer, Cécile...

German director Andreas Dresen has made the selection at Cannes for the second time. In 2009, he presented Cloud 9,  the story of a married, sixty plus woman who suddenly falls in love with a new man. This year,  he continues with the theme of  untimely events with Stopped on Track (Halt auf freier Strecke), a film about illness and...

Michel Hazanavicius takes up an audacious challenge with a comedy about the flip side of technological innovations.  The Artist is a silent film in black and white that takes place in the era of the heyday of the grand Hollywood studios.George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a silent film star for whom everything is coming up roses until...

The Canadian director is presenting his first feature film Martha Marcy May Marlene, in Un Certain Regard. This film, about the excesses and paranoia of sects, has already won an award at the Sundance Festival this past January. It is unusual for a film screened at the Festival de Cannes to have already had exposure, but Martha...

Sixty years after having won the Critics’ Award at the Festival, Chronique d’un été* (Chronicle of a Summer) is back in Cannes Classics. In 1961, this film made by the sociologist Edgar Morin and a director with a passion for ethnology, Jean Rouch, inaugurated the genre of cinéma-vérité.. “How do you live? Are you...

"To pass something on is a sure way of taking your place in eternity." Mahamat Saleh Haroun

After participating in the Cinéfondation's Atelier in 2005 for Daratt last year, Mahamat Saleh Haroun was awarded the Jury Prize at the Festival de Cannes for his film  Un Homme qui crie (A Screaming Man). Today, he is a member of the Feature Film Jury. An interview.   Following on from your prize in 2010, you are now a Jury...

Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia and Montenegro are the 4 nations represented for the first time at the 2011 Village International. All told, more than 50 countries have set up pavilions in this space devoted to exhibition and exchange. The Village has grown considerably since its creation in 2000 and increasingly each year serves to...