The Daily 2013

The entire team of Like Father, Like Son (Soshite Chichi Ni Naru), a Japanese film by Hirokazu Kore-Eda presented in Competition, appeared before the press. Among them were several of the film's actors, including Masaharu Fukuyama who plays the role of the family's very strict father.Hirokazu Kore-Eda on the recurring analysis of the...

Arnaud Desplechin, Benicio Del Toro, Mathieu Amalric, Kent Jones, Gina Mckee and Misty Upham were in Cannes to appear at the press conference for Jimmy P (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian). Selected extracts below.About the book:Arnaud Desplechin: When I walked into a bookshop and just saw the title, I told myself that it was made...

A child of the theatre, raised in television, Christoph Waltz remains in cinema lovers' minds as the cynical SS colonel Hans Landa in Quentin Tarantino's feature film Inglorious Basterds, which introduced him to cinema goers and for which he received the Best Actor award in 2009. At 57, the actor has since proved the breadth of his...

Bernardo Bertolucci insisted on personally supervising the restoration of The Last Emperor done by the Recorded Picture Company and Repremiere Group. Released in Cannes in 1987, this historic fresco, two hours and forty-five minutes long, is still the Italian director's most popular work.At the age of 73, Bertolucci remains in touch...

Desplechin is returning for the sixth time to the Official Selection of the Festival de Cannes with Jimmy P (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian), an adaptation of a study done in 1951 by the French ethnopsychiatrist Georges Devereux. With Amalric as Devereux and Benicio Del Toro as Jimmy Picard, Arnaud Desplechin imagines a face to...

     The actors and directors expected to be in attendance in Cannes today are:    Jason ABALOS     Elyes AGUIS     Alexandre AJA     Zoya AKHTAR     Adolfo ALIX JR     Mathieu AMALRIC     Santiago AMIGORENA     Jacques AUDIARD     Naidra AYADI     Edouard BAER     Dibakar...

Missed a film in the Official Selection? The next-day screenings offer you a second chance. Head for the Soixantième, Debussy, Bazin and Buñuel Theatres with your badge for a catch-up session.

The director of Belle Épine has brought together Tahar Rahim and Léa Seydoux for her poisonous romance Grand Central in which the impossible love of Hitchcock’s Notorious resurfaces in the setting of a nuclear power station. Zlotowski reveals the secrets of her latest film.  Tell us how your film came about. It was my...

A restored version  of one of Satyajit Ray's greatest films, Charulata, is being presented at Cannes Classics as part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Indian cinema. Taking its inspiration from a story by the poet Rabindranath Tagore, it draws a beautiful and sensitive portrait of a woman. It would be...

Stop The Pounding Heart is the third feature film from Roberto Minervini and the last in a trilogy shot by the Italian director in Texas. In his usual manner, the filmmaker filmed the protagonists of his fictional film going about their everyday life before coming up with the plot. The film deals with the sufferings of Sara, a young...

What does being a father mean? This is the question Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda asked himself for his new film in Competition: Soshite Chichi Ni Naru (Like Father, Like Son). A personal look at paternity involving a normal Japanese family.Since his very first film Maborosi in 1995, family relationships have provided a backdrop...

Forty years after one of Cannes's biggest scandals, Michel Piccoli and Andréa Ferréol have come to present La grande abbuffata (La Grande Bouffe). A projection tinged with emotion because Michel Piccoli is the last of the four main actors still alive.The story of four men in their forties (Marcello Mastroianni, Philippe Noiret,...

In 2003, Amit Kumar presented The Bypass, a short film made in the context of his film studies. It was an uncompromising perspective on the armed violence and the corruption that poison Indian society. The director returns with a more in-depth treatment of this theme in his first feature film, Monsoon Shootout, which raises questions...

  

Having made two short films in 2008 and 2009 (12:30 and Dry Rain), this young Chinese director is presenting her work at Cannes for the first time. Bends, her first film, tells of the burgeoning affinity between the wife of a rich businessman and his chauffeur. Tell us how your film came about...I was inspired by the river separating...