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.

CINEMA DE LA PLAGE - Siméon, to the sound of zouk

the 22.05.2013 at 5:00 PM - Updated on 22.05.2013 at 5:27 PM

This evening, the Cinema on the Beach sees a homage to Aimé Césaire with Siméon, a Caribbean tale which tells of the birth of a Creole music group, Jacaranda, a fictional version of Kassav.Two years ago Euzhan Palcy was at Cannes Classics to present two films: the restored version of Rue Cases Nègres, her first feature film,...
CANNES CLASSICS - One of Ted Kotcheff's great hits at Cannes Classics

the 22.05.2013 at 4:40 PM - Updated on 22.05.2013 at 5:27 PM

Best known for his film Rambo (1982), Canadian director Ted Kotcheff will see one of his most famous feature films screened at Cannes Classics. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz tells the story of a young man's ambition to make a name for himself in the Jewish "ghetto" of Montreal in the 1940s.Cinema fans will recall that Ted...
QUOTE OF THE DAY

the 22.05.2013 at 4:07 PM - Updated on 22.05.2013 at 5:01 PM

"Will he live? Will he die? As a director, we hope that the spectator will write his own story, according to his philosophy." J.C. Chandor
PRESS CONFERENCE - Robert Redford: "I trusted J.C. Chandor so much that I could just go with the flow, I gave myself up completely."

the 22.05.2013 at 4:05 PM - Updated on 22.05.2013 at 5:57 PM

J.C. Chandor has come to present his second feature film, All is Lost, Out of Competition, together with Robert Redford, the film's only actor. Robert Redford, on his performance:It's a very big challenge being alone, with no crutch, no dialogue, no words. It's a challenge that attracted me a lot as an actor. I wanted to give myself...
PRESS CONFERENCE – Mahamat-Saleh Haroun: "I asked Souleymane to express emotion in his dance and that's just what he did."

the 22.05.2013 at 1:31 PM - Updated on 22.05.2013 at 4:13 PM

After the press screening of Grigris, the fourteenth film in Competition at Cannes, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun answered questions from the press. The Chadian director was accompanied by the actor and dancer Souleymane Démé, who stars in the film, and the actress Anaïs Monory. Selected highlights. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun on the way...
PRESS CONFERENCE - Nicolas Winding Refn: "My approach is somewhat pornographic - it's what excites me that counts"

the 22.05.2013 at 12:18 PM - Updated on 22.05.2013 at 2:32 PM

The Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn and the entire team of Only God Forgives, a feature film in Competition, came to meet the press. Selected highlights.Nicolas Winding Refn on writing the screenplay:I was in an existentialist phase, full of troubles. I was permanently angry and didn't know how to channel it. In those moments, you...
UN CERTAIN REGARD RENDEZ-VOUS - My Sweet Pepperland by Hiner Saleem

the 22.05.2013 at 12:00 PM - Updated on 22.05.2013 at 4:57 PM

Hiner Saleem fights for the rights of Kurds, which explains why the action of My Sweet Pepperland takes place at the border between Iran and Turkey. The story unfolds in an isolated village where Baran, a Kurdish independence war hero who has just arrived, falls in love with Govend, a charming school teacher with twelve brothers who...
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...
INTERVIEW - Thomas Vinterberg, President of Un Certain Regard Jury

the 22.05.2013 at 10:07 AM - Updated on 22.05.2013 at 1:19 PM

He'll be celebrating his forty-third birthday in the middle of the Festival yet he doesn't seem to have aged a bit. Thomas Vinterberg, after four films including the highly acclaimed Festen (Jury Prize 1998) and The Hunt (Best Actor 2012), returns to Cannes to head up the Un Certain Regard jury. Thomas Vinterberg © AFPYou talked...
COMPETITION - Nicolas Winding Refn, Avenging Angel

the 22.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2013 at 12:46 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 4:57 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 5:24 PM

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 4:33 PM

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 5:26 PM

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...
OUT OF COMPETITION - Robert Redford, J.C. Chandor's castaway

the 22.05.2013 at 8:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2013 at 5:24 PM

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...