The Daily 2013

19 May

Interviews, reports, films, events, press conferences, photo calls, the red carpet... Hour by hour updates, bringing you exclusive and official coverage of the 12 days of the Festival in articles, videos, photos and sound clips.

MIDNIGHT SCREENING - Andy Lau: the blind detective in Johnnie To's new crime film

the 19.05.2013 at 5:00 PM - Updated on 19.05.2013 at 5:06 PM

Widely considered the master of crime film since The Mission (1999), Johnnie To presents Blind Detective (Man Tam) in a Midight Screening. After Breaking News (Out of Competition, 2004), Exiled (2006) and Vengeance (in Competition, 2009), he delivers his new film noir starring actor Andy Lau. Johnnie To has been devouring crime...
CINEMA DE LA PLAGE - A Celebration of India at the Cinéma de la Plage

the 19.05.2013 at 4:00 PM - Updated on 19.05.2013 at 5:24 PM

Bollywood: the greatest love story ever told was produced especially for the Festival de Cannes. A member of the Jury in 2011, Shekhar Kapur told Thierry Frémaux how sorry he was to see so few films from Bollywood in Cannes and he started working on this documentary. One year later, Bollywood was screened Out of Competition and...
PRESS CONFERENCE - Joel Coen: "Yes, the film revolves around the cat!"

the 19.05.2013 at 1:40 PM - Updated on 19.05.2013 at 4:52 PM

Brothers Ethan and Joel Coen answered questions from journalists after the screening of Inside Llewyn Davis. With them were Oscar Isaac who plays the lead role, Carey Mulligan and Justin Timberlake as well as T Bone Burnett, who was in charge of the film's music. Selected extracts below.Joel Coen on the cat in film:The film doesn't...
QUOTE OF THE DAY

the 19.05.2013 at 1:36 PM - Updated on 19.05.2013 at 2:59 PM

"What I am giving you today is not an image, or the quest for a single image, rather it is the image of a quest: the quest offered by cinema." Rithy Panh
CANNES CLASSICS - A new Reine Margot

the 19.05.2013 at 1:31 PM - Updated on 19.05.2013 at 4:00 PM

In anticipation of the 20th anniversary of its release, Pathé has restored La Reine Margot, a great historical epic of blood and gold which recounts Marguerite de Valois's marriage to the king, Henri de Navarre. Intended to reconcile catholics and protestants, six days later, it led to the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre on 25th...
SPECIAL SCREENING - Bombay Talkies a tribute to Indian film

the 19.05.2013 at 1:30 PM - Updated on 19.05.2013 at 3:11 PM

This week the Festival de Cannes invites India and its hundred-year old film industry. For this anniversary, Bombay Talkies is presented in a Special Screening as part of an evening tribute. This film of vignettes brings together four directors of the young generation, four shorts for an ode to Indian film. Photo from the film ©...
PRESS CONFERENCE - Alex Van Warmerdam: "I wanted to show evil through the abnormal behaviour of normal people"

the 19.05.2013 at 11:41 AM - Updated on 19.05.2013 at 3:01 PM

Alex Van Warmerdam, the director of Borgman, presented in Competition, together with all the film's actors took questions from journalists on Sunday following the screening of the feature film for the media. Selected extracts below. Alex Van Warmerdam, on the inspiration for his film:I read critical studies of the Marquis de Sade's...
In attendance at Cannes

the 19.05.2013 at 10:35 AM - Updated on 19.05.2013 at 12:14 PM

The actors and directors expected to be in attendance in Cannes today are: Jason ABALOS Hany ABU-ASSAD Zoya AKHTAR Adolfo ALIX JR Mathieu...
PLANTU - one day, one drawing

the 19.05.2013 at 9:58 AM - Updated on 19.05.2013 at 1:34 PM
DID YOU KNOW? Info points

the 19.05.2013 at 9:30 AM - Updated on 19.05.2013 at 2:39 PM

Lost your way in the Festival? Several Info Points are to be found in and around the Palais. They are marked by a red "i" on a black background.In the Palais: Level 01: central avenue and well of light Level 0: main entrance Level 3: inner road On the Riviera, sea entrance on the sea side Pantiero: entrance to the International...
CANNES CLASSICS - Fedora, a biting vision of cinema

the 19.05.2013 at 9:14 AM - Updated on 19.05.2013 at 3:58 PM

En 1978, Fedora was presented in an Out of Competition preview at Cannes. This was nothing new for Billy Wilder, who had already received a Grand Prix at the Festival in 1946 for The Lost Weekend. William Holden and Marthe Keller lend their charisma to this film noir. For the premiere of Fedora Remastered, the Swiss actress granted us...
CANNES CLASSICS - Michel Piccoli and Andrea Ferréol present La Grande Bouffe

the 19.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2013 at 4:11 PM

Forty years after its première in Cannes, Michel Piccoli and Andréa Ferreol came back to present Marco Ferreri's La Grande Bouffe in Cannes Classics, in front of a jam-packed and emotional audience, including director Cristian Mungiu, a member of the Jury."They didn't want to come. So much the worse for them." That was how Michel...
OUT OF COMPETITION - Lanzmann lifts the veil on "The Last of the Unjust"

the 19.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2013 at 3:09 PM

For his latest film, Claude Lanzmann exhumes a series of interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council of Elders in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, whence hundreds of thousands of Jews were deported. A testimonial that is almost forty years old, which sheds light on the Shoah. Photo...
SPECIAL SCREENING - Taisia Igumentseva: "My greatest inspiration comes from reality, people, situations"

the 19.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2013 at 5:06 PM

One year after receiving the Cinéfondation First Prize for her short student film, Doroga Na (The Road To ), Taisia Igumentseva returns to Cannes with a Special Screening of her first feature film Otdat Konci (Bite the Dust ): a tragi-comedy that takes place in a small village of ten inhabitants, where each villager prepares for the...
IN COMPETITION - The Coen brothers, rock and folk style

the 19.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2013 at 2:11 PM

A musical return to Cannes for Joel and Ethan Coen. The pair have been selected this year for Inside Llewyn Davis, a film with a folk feel set in the legendary Greenwich Village of the 1960s. In 1991, the brothers received the Palme d’or and the Best Director award for Barton Fink, an example of masterful cinema tinged with edgy...
IN COMPETITION - Borgman: a horror thriller with a touch of black humour

the 19.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2013 at 12:21 PM

Warning: this film is not what you might expect. Alex Van Warmerdam's Borgman is one of the surprises in the selection. The Dutch filmmaker, who is also a playwright, painter, writer and actor, has not been to Cannes since 1998. That was the year he presented Little Tony, his fourth film, in Un Certain Regard. Borgman is the first...
RENDEZ-VOUS UN CERTAIN REGARD - L’Image manquante by Rithy Panh

the 19.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2013 at 1:30 PM

Rithy Panh is a film-maker who is followed and cherished by the Festival de Cannes. In Competition with his first movie, Rice People (1994), he returned in 1998 with One Evening after the War in Un Certain Regard. He had two movies shown Out of Competition, S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine in 2003 and The Burnt Theatre in 2005,...
UN CERTAIN REGARD RENDEZ-VOUS - Death March: the second Selection at Cannes for Adolfo Alix Jr.

the 19.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2013 at 4:03 PM

Adolfo Alix Jr, a young Filipino director, re-examines his country’s history in Death March, which revisits a forgotten World War II tragedy. The 34 year-old filmmaker explains how his project came about. Tell us how your film came about ? When I was young, my grandfather told me stories about the Second World War and the Bataan...