The Daily 2012

21 May

Abbas Kiarostami : "My film has no beginning and no ending."

the 21.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2012 at 7:10 PM

Abbas Kiarostami held a press conference for Like Someone In Love, presented in Competition. He answered journalists' questions in the company of actors Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno and Ryo Kase. Abbas Kiarostami on contemporary Japanese cinemaThe one thing I didn't get from these films was soul and emotion. All I saw was a pale...
Quote of the Day

the 21.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2012 at 4:28 PM

"Cinema is the art of the off-camera: a way of talking about things without showing them." (Joachim Lafosse)
Alain Resnais: "I make it up as I go along."

the 21.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2012 at 5:11 PM

Alain Resnais held a press conference for You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet in the company of his producer, Jean-Louis Livi and several members of his cast: Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Anne Consigny, Anny Duperey, Hippolyte Girardot, Denis Podalydes, Lambert Wilson. They all paid emphatic and moving tribute to their director, in...
Did you know? Echoes

the 21.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 25.05.2012 at 9:19 AM

Helping you to discover the excitement of international cinema: such is the vocation of Echoes by the Festival de Cannes, a leading international content aggregator that is dedicated to cinema.Echoes selects the very best from the cinematic world: festivals, institutions, prominent figures, journalists and bloggers... Get all the...
In attendance at Cannes

the 21.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2012 at 11:06 AM

The actors and directors expected to be in attendance in Cannes today are:
Isabelle Huppert: "Hong Sangsoo's films are finely polished"

the 21.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2012 at 5:11 PM

Korean director Hong Sangsoo presents In Another Country In Competition: a film in which Isabelle Huppert plays three different roles at a coastal resort in South Korea. The film crew attended a press conference to answer journalists' questions.Isabelle Huppert on filming in Korea:"The adventure was a type of enchantment for me. I...
An intimate portrait of John Boorman by his daughter

the 21.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 26.05.2012 at 11:33 AM

Katrine Boorman presents her first film in Cannes Classics. In the running for the Caméra d’Or, Me and me Dad is a documentary on the director's father, filmmaker John Boorman.For four years, Katrine Boorman followed her father wherever he went. In this documentary we discover the director of such famous films as Deliverance, The...
You ain't seen nothin' yet: a new exploration of the depths by Alain Resnais

the 21.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2012 at 4:10 PM

Honoured with a special award for his whole career and for his contribution to the history of film in 2009, Alain Resnais returns to Cannes with a film enigmatically entitled, You ain't seen nothin' yet!, a very free adaptation of two plays by Jean Anouilh: Eurydice and Cher Antoine. Alain Resnais sur le tournage © DR Almost 90...
From Russia with Love at the Cinéma de la Plage

the 21.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2012 at 6:15 PM

// The 9:30pm screening for the Cinema de la Plage, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, is canceled and replaced by a screening at 9:45pm in the BUNUEL theater on the 5th floor of the Palais // Agent 007 is back on duty tonight at the Cinéma de la Plage in From Russia with Love (1963) by Terrence Young. The filming of this work was far from...
Un Certain Regard Q&A: Pablo Trapero on Elefante Blanco

the 21.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 30.01.2013 at 3:19 PM

Argentinean film-maker Pablo Trapero returns to Un Certain Regard with the same duo seen in 2010 in Carancho: his wife Martina Gusman and Argentinean star Ricardo Darin. In Elefante Blanco, the director examines to a fault-line in Argentinean society, turning his attention to the favélas and their inhabitants, forsaken by the state...
Un Certain Regard Q&A: Michel Franco on Después de Lucía

the 21.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 30.01.2013 at 3:16 PM

Michel Franco made his first full-length movie, Daniel & Ana, in 2010. The film dealt with the difficult subjects of incest and pornography. This time Mexican film-maker dissects violence in all its forms. In Después de Lucía, a young girl is made into a scapegoat by her jealous classmates.What does Un Certain Regard mean to you?A...
Un Certain Regard Q&A: Aida Begic on Children of Sarajevo

the 21.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2012 at 9:54 AM

Aida Begic first came to Cannes in 2001 with her graduation film, First Death Experience, which was selected for the Cinéfondation. In 2008 her first full-length movie, Snow, about the widows of Sarajevo, won the Critics’ Week Grand Prix. In her second movie, Children of Sarajevo, Aida Begic pursues her chronicle of the...
Isabelle Huppert: three times a lady with Hong Sangsoo

the 21.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2012 at 5:52 PM

In the film In Another Country, the Korean director continues his experimental study of a story. He depicts in one place, three stories, with the same actress as three different characters. Photo from the film In Another CountrySince his film debut in 1996 with The Day a Pig Fell Into The Well, Hong Sangsoo has been establishing...
Abbas Kiarostami in Japan

the 21.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2012 at 3:57 PM

Winner of the Palme d’Or in 1997 for Taste of Cherry, the Iranian director is in competition at Cannes for the fourth time in his career. In Like Someone In Love, Abbas Kiarostami transports us to Tokyo, far from the poetry of Persia and the ochre deserts of Iran. Certain encounters change lives forever. Like Someone In...
Takashi Miike or the hybridisation of genres from V-Cinema

the 21.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2012 at 5:56 PM

Takashi Miike presents Ai To Makoto (For Love's Sake) at the Midnight Screenings. With over one hundred theatrical, video and television productions to his name, this passionate Japanese director has evolved effortlessly to create an eclectic body of work since his beginnings in the 1990s. Still from the film Ai To...
Hiam Abbass: "the director must show sincere situations and must himself be sincere"

the 21.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2012 at 7:44 PM

As both a polyglot and a keen traveller, there is something universal about Hiam Abbass. This Palestinian-Israeli actress made her debut on stage in Palestine, before moving to London and later Paris. In 2005, she co-starred with Natalie Portman in Free Zone by Amos Gitaï, In Competition at Cannes. She returned to the same category...
European Rendez-Vous at the Festival de Cannes

the 21.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2012 at 9:43 AM

Every year the Festival de Cannes organises the European Rendez-Vous. Sunday 20th and Monday 21st May 2012 are dedicated to this event that aims to showcase European cinema.For this occasion, the European Commissioner for Culture and Education Androulla Vassiliou arrived at Cannes on Sunday. She will be organising a meeting on...
Carlos Diegues and the myth of Xica da Silva

the 21.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2012 at 4:01 PM

Cannes Classics presents a restored print of Xica da Silva, one of the most successful films by the Brazilian director, Carlos Diegues. It tells the true story of a slave's social ascent.The character of Xica da Silva is shrouded in mystery. It is known that she lived in Brazil during the colonial period and that she became famous...
Tess: a romantic epic by Roman Polanski

the 21.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2012 at 6:11 PM

Following on from the resounding success of Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and Chinatown (1974), Polanski's film, Tess, depicts the tragic destiny of a young peasant girl who is crushed by the weight of convention.For a good number of cinemagoers, Tess remains the most lyrical film that Roman Polanski has made to date. It was a note by...
Runaway Train: a new print of Konchalovsky's film

the 21.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 26.05.2012 at 11:34 AM

Andreï Konchalovsky returns to the Festival de Cannes for the seventh time to present a new print of his film, Runaway Train, scheduled for screening in the Cannes Classics wing. The film's script was written by the Japanese director, Akira Kurosawa.A four-engine train tears along an American railway with nobody driving. The Japanese...