The Daily 2013

25 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 25.05.2013 at 9:43 AM - Updated on 25.05.2013 at 10:07 AM

The actors and directors expected to be in attendance in Cannes today are: Jason ABALOS Ahmad Tarzan ABOUNASSER Mohammed Arab ABOUNASSER Haifaa AL MANSOUR Mathieu AMALRIC ...
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION - Make way for shorts

the 25.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 25.05.2013 at 10:50 AM

The Festival de Cannes is making way for short films. This year, ten directors from eight nationalities have been selected for nine short films in Competition. After the deliberations of the Jury presided over by Jane Campion, the Palme d'or for Short Film will be awarded at the closing ceremony on Sunday, 26 May. Conversations...
CANNES CLASSICS - Exceptional projection of Blazing Sun (Plein Soleil) with Alain Delon

the 25.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 25.05.2013 at 9:08 AM

The Cinémathèque française and Studio Canal have restored Blazing Sun (Plein Soleil) by René Clément, with the assistance of the Franco-American Cultural Fund. This work, led by the desire to preserve the film's particularly unsettling dimension, will be presented by Alain Delon, guest of honour at the Festival de Cannes. In...
CANNES CLASSICS - Vertigo: Kim Novak - an extraordinary Hitchcock heroine

the 25.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 25.05.2013 at 9:08 AM

Kim Novak is guest of honour at the Festival de Cannes. As such, she will present a new restored version of Vertigo. The actress, originally from Chicago, will also present one of the Festival's awards this Sunday, 26th May 2013. Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock's 45th film, directed in 1958, is an adaptation of the French novel The...
COMPETITION - Jarmusch, face to face with humanity

the 25.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 25.05.2013 at 9:05 AM

This unique figure in American independent film offers up a reflection on human existence in Only Lovers Left Alive, the love story between two vampires. As is his wont, he liberates himself from traditional narrative codes. If there is one characteristic that critics agree on with regard to the films of Jim Jarmusch, it is the fact...
COMPETITION - A Venus revised and revisited by Polanski

the 25.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 25.05.2013 at 11:44 AM

It was in Cannes that Roman Polanski discovered Venus In Furs. Last year, while he was presenting a restored print of Tess in Cannes Classics, his agent suggested he should read Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's celebrated novel. A year later, the director who won the Palme d’Or for The Pianist (2002) is back to present his new movie...
PLANTU - One day, one drawing

the 25.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 25.05.2013 at 9:10 AM