The Daily 2012

22 May

Quote of the Day

the 22.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2012 at 5:47 PM

"Cinema is one of the most important mediums that we have been given to approach life and human beings." (Andrea Arnold)
Ken Loach: "The British middle class is obsessed with swear words"

the 22.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2012 at 10:43 PM

Ken Loach presented The Angels' Share alongside his producer Rebecca O'Brien, his screenwriter Paul Laverty, and two of his actors Paul Brannigan and Charlie Maclean: a light-hearted press conference where issues of whiskey, politics and censorship were discussed. On the filiation between The Angels' Share and Kes Ken Loach:...
Andrew Dominik: "The capitalist crisis is a never-ending story"

the 22.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2012 at 4:11 PM

The Australian director Andrew Dominik, Brad Pitt and all the cast of Killing Them Softly, presented today in Competition, talked to journalists this morning.Andrew Dominik goes back to the subject of the film:"I found the characters in George V. Higgin's Cogan’s Trade wonderful. This book depicts criminality. When I began to adapt...
Brazil: special guest country

the 22.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2012 at 4:27 PM

This year the Festival de Cannes celebrates Brazil as its “special guest country”. Following on from Egypt in 2011, it is the second year in a row that the Festival has shone the spotlight on a great filmmaking nation.The quality of Brazil’s output is clearly on display with four films in Official Selection, plus On the Road...
In attendance at Cannes

the 22.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2012 at 11:55 AM

The actors and directors expected to be in attendance in Cannes today are:
Did you know? The International Village

the 22.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2012 at 11:02 AM

A privileged place for meetings and exchanges, the International Village presents pavilions displaying the colours of flags from countries around the world that have come to promote their cinema, their culture and their institutions. Two new venues: the Algerian and the Latvian pavilions. A relay station for the dynamism of European...
A "Journal de France" in two voices

the 22.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2012 at 5:43 PM

Journal de France follows two strands: the career of photographer-director Raymond Depardon, and that of his photographic journey for the Mission de France. A dark-room project that produced 300 images, presented at the Bibliothèque Nationale in 2010. This double trajectory is recounted by Claudine Nougaret, co-director of the...
Delépine and Kervern: From the social to the satirical

the 22.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 26.05.2012 at 11:32 AM

Benoit Delépine and Gustave Kervern present Le Grand Soir at Un Certain Regard: the story of a man who suddenly finds himself homeless with his punk brother. A social comedy - a recurrent theme in the duo's work.Back in 2008, the two directors shot Louise-Michel, the story of a factory which delocalised and left several people...
Homage to Brazil at Cannes Classics

the 22.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2012 at 12:36 PM

Each year, the Festival de Cannes selectsa country and celebrates its films and customs. This year, the honour falls to Brazil, represented in particular at Cannes Classics by Eduardo Coutinho and his film Cabra Marcado Para Morrer. In Brazil, Eduardo Coutinho ranks among the great documentary film makers. From the favelas of Rio...
Andrew Dominik, a certain vision of capitalism

the 22.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2012 at 12:46 PM

Five years after The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, a stylised feature film about the famous American gangster, Andrew Dominik has gone back to the world of crooks. With Killing Them Softly, the Australian film director criticises the capitalist system by looking into its "most basic form".In Andrew Dominik's...
Nelson Pereira Dos Santos pays tribute to the bossa nova

the 22.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2012 at 7:24 PM

In his new documentary A música segundo Tom Jobim (The Music According to Tom Jobim), Nelson Pereira Dos Santos celebrates Tom Jobim, the pioneer of bossa nova. The movie provides fascinating glimpses of the giant of Brazilian jazz and shows how he inspired some of the world's greatest musicians. The mythical bossa nova piece The...
Candida Brady bends an ear to the planet

the 22.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2012 at 3:02 PM

After Madam and the Dying Swan (2009), Trashed is the second documentary to be directed by British journalist Candida Brady. The film-maker travelled all over the world to film the impact human waste is having on the planet.Sitting on a mountain of rubbish of all kinds piled on a beach at Sidon, in Lebanon, actor Jeremy Irons...
Ken Loach and his screenwriter Paul Laverty: an exceptional duo

the 22.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2012 at 3:01 PM

Since 1995 and the filming of Carla's Song, Ken Loach has repeatedly worked with Paul Laverty, his screenwriter of choice. Twenty years after their first partnership and eleven films later, Paul Laverty has penned the screenplay of Ken Loach's new work The Angels' Share, presented In Competition at the Festival de Cannes.Photo from...
Un Certain Regard Q&A: Joachim Lafosse on A perdre la raison

the 22.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2012 at 3:58 PM

For his fifth feature film, the Belgian film director Joachim Lafosse turned his attention to the Geneviève Lhermitte case, a tragic event that occurred in Belgium when a Belgian mother killed her five children before attempting to commit suicide. The film cast of A perdre la raison includes Tahar Rahim and Niels Astrup (A prophet,...
Emmanuelle Devos: "Watching a film with other people is a bit like a religion for me"

the 22.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2012 at 12:37 PM

While Emmanuelle Devos has been Arnaud Desplechin’s favorite actress since his first film in 1991, she has also worked with many other French directors, including Alain Resnais, Jacques Audiard, Nicole Garcia, Xavier Giannoli or Jérôme Bonnell with whom she will be shooting Le Temps de l'aventure when she gets back from Cannes....
Jean-Pierre Cassel and Anouk Aimée help to brighten our day

the 22.05.2012 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2012 at 8:07 PM

Jean-Pierre Cassel and Anouk Aimée team up in The Joker, a wacky comedy by Philippe Broca, the much missed director of Vipère au Poing (2004). Fondly remembered by movie lovers for Le Magnifique (1973), an offbeat spy movie parody in which Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a zany secret agent, Philippe de Broca set...