The Daily 2013

22 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.

In attendance at Cannes

the 22.05.2013 at 10:11 AM - Updated on 22.05.2013 at 11:30 AM

The actors and directors expected to be in attendance in Cannes today are: Jason ABALOS Ahmad Tarzan ABOUNASSER Mohammed Arab ABOUNASSER Hany ABU-ASSAD Haifaa AL MANSOUR Adolfo ALIX JR Alexandre ARCADY Ali ASGARI Julie BATAILLE Elzbieta...
COMPETITION - Nicolas Winding Refn, Avenging Angel

the 22.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2013 at 12:38 PM

Nicolas Winding Refn sets the action of his new film, Only God Forgives in a Bangkok peopled by gangsters and other drug traffickers. They include Ryan Gosling, two years on from Drive, with which he picked up the Best Director award at the 64th Festival de Cannes. Since his first film, Pusher (1996) the Danish filmmaker has painted...
PLANTU - One day, one drawing

the 22.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2013 at 9:12 AM
CANNES CLASSICS - Goha: the cinematic gem from Jacques Baratier

the 22.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2013 at 12:39 PM

A rare filmmaker for his generation, Jacques Barratier is being honoured at Cannes Classics, which is projecting a restored copy of his very first film, Goha. In it, we discover Omar Sharif in his very early days in front of the camera, playing the role of a naive young man who meets a respected local wise man. He stars opposite...
SPECIAL SCREENING - Frears in the ring with Mohamed Ali

the 22.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2013 at 9:18 AM

It's not the first time he has been the protagonist of a fictional film. Ali, The Greatest, Requiem for a Heavyweight, the career of the mythic Cassius Clay alias Mohamed Ali has inspired generations of film makers since the 1960s. Stephen Frears was drawn to put one episode in particular from the boxer's life into closer focus: his...
SPECIAL SCREENINGS: A weekend on adrenalin with Jackie Stewart and Roman Polanski

the 22.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2013 at 9:17 AM

Selected in Special Screenings, Frank Simon's documentary Weekend Of A Champion, will be shown in the presence of the film's two central characters: former Formula 1 World Champion, Jackie Stewart and film-maker Roman Polanski, who is also In Competition this year with La Vénus à la fourrure.Between 1965 and 1973, Jackie Stewart...
IN COMPETITION - Mahamat-Saleh Haroun presents a dance on the edge

the 22.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2013 at 9:16 AM

Grigris has lost the use of his left leg. Mimi is mixed-race. Two characters with two complexes: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun puts people on the edges of society at heart of his film in Competition, three years after Un Homme qui crie (A Screaming Man), which won the Jury Prize in 2010. Film still © RRWhen Grigris dances, all eyes are on...
UN CERTAIN REGARD RENDEZ-VOUS - La Jaula de Oro by Diego Quemada Diez

the 22.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2013 at 11:58 AM

The Spanish filmmaker Diego Quemada-Diez started out as assistant to Ken Loach. At the age of 44, he has been selected at Cannes for the first time with La Jaula de Oro, the story of a culture shock. Three Guatemalan teenagers on their way to the USA meet a Tzotzil Indian in Mexico. He’s called Chauk, is an undocumented person and...
SPECIAL SCREENING - Robert Redford, J.C. Chandor's castaway

the 22.05.2013 at 8:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2013 at 10:14 AM

J.C. Chandor is at Cannes for the first time, Out of Competition, to present his second feature film All is Lost. The history of a castaway which charts the struggle of a man, played by Robert Redford, faced with the ocean and himself. Margin Call, a small film which made big waves first brought J.C. Chandor into the spotlight. The...