The Daily 2013

21 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.

PRESS CONFÉRENCE - Paolo Sorrentino : "I wanted to look at what's hidden behind the apparent impoverishment of our country"

the 21.05.2013 at 3:01 PM - Updated on 21.05.2013 at 9:54 PM

The Italian director Paolo Sorrentino and the entire team from his film, The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza), presented in Competition, answered questions from the press. Selected highlights.Paolo Sorrentino on the origins of his film:I've known Rome for quite some time. I first went there to work then moved there. I've been able to...
CANNES CLASSICS - Diego Galán talks about women in Spanish film

the 21.05.2013 at 3:00 PM - Updated on 21.05.2013 at 9:15 PM

Diego Galán loves Spanish film. At the age of 66, he has tackled a multi-faceted study of the cinema of his country through a number of writings and documentaries. His latest to date, Con la Pata Quebrada (Barefoot in the Kitchen), retraces the role of women in film from the 1930s to the present day. Interview. Photo from the film ©...
QUOTE OF THE DAY

the 21.05.2013 at 2:53 PM - Updated on 21.05.2013 at 4:20 PM

"I need films that make me want to live. To leave the cinema and get out there" Louis Garrel
DID YOU KNOW? The Shop

the 21.05.2013 at 2:45 PM - Updated on 21.05.2013 at 3:31 PM

The Festival shop has a new look! Discover a range of products in the visual style of the 2013 Festival de Cannes at the official boutiques around the Palais and throughout France in the Arteum and Fnac networks. ► More information on the products
PRESS CONFERENCE - Valeria Bruni Tedeschi: "Imbalance creates performance"

the 21.05.2013 at 2:32 PM - Updated on 21.05.2013 at 6:11 PM

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi held a press conference for Un Château en Italie (A Castle in Italy), accompanied by her producer, Said Ben Said, her two co-writers, Noémie Lvovsky and Agnès de Sacy, and her actors, Louis Garrel, Filippo Timi, Xavier Beauvois and Marisa Borini. Un Chateau en Italie is competing for the Palme...
CANNES CLASSICS - A restored version of the masterpiece by Mankiewicz

the 21.05.2013 at 2:00 PM - Updated on 21.05.2013 at 9:21 PM

20th Century Fox has launched a major project to restore its classics, having already rejuvenated Five Fingers (1952), and A letter to Three Wives (1949). Now it is time for Cleopatra to be restored in 4k. To achieve this feat, it took two years of work and fifty people working on it. When Cleopatra was released in 1963, it was the...
RENCONTRE - Daniel Auteuil: "I was able to be concerned with myself for many years but what interests me most now is other people."

the 21.05.2013 at 1:30 PM - Updated on 21.05.2013 at 10:51 PM

Daniel Auteuil is a man of both the theatre and the cinema, an actor and director who has played more than eighty roles with the greatest of film-makers, including Claude Sautet, André Téchiné, Patrice Chéreau, Nicole Garcia, Olivier Marchal or Michael Haneke. In 1996, he won the Best Actor Award at Cannes for Le Huitième...
PRESS CONFERENCE - Michael Douglas: "Steven gave me the gift of this incredible role"

the 21.05.2013 at 12:56 PM - Updated on 22.05.2013 at 1:24 AM

Steven Soderbergh, Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Richard LaGravenese and producer Jerry Weintraub attended the press conference for the biopic about Valentino Liberace: Behind The Candelabra. Selected extracts.About Valentino LiberaceJerry Weintraub : I am the only one old enough at this table to have known him personally. He led an...
In attendance at Cannes

the 21.05.2013 at 10:07 AM - Updated on 21.05.2013 at 10:37 PM

The actors and directors expected to be in attendance in Cannes today are: Jason ABALOS Hany ABU-ASSAD Zoya AKHTAR Adolfo ALIX JR Alexandre...
SPECIAL SCREENING - Homeland (Né quelque part), a chronicle of identity

the 21.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2013 at 10:52 PM

Jamel Debbouze and Tewfik Jallal carry the lead roles in the first film by Mohamed Hamidi: Homeland (Né quelque part). This Algerian odyssey, partially autobiographical, will be presented at the Festival de Cannes as a Special Screening intended for an audience of secondary school students.Mohamed Hamidi, a former journalist and...
CINÉMA DE LA PLAGE - Jaws, thrills and chills Spielberg style!

the 21.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2013 at 11:20 PM

A chilling soundtrack and a shark’s fin that still terrifies beachgoers around the world today. Thrills and chills are guaranteed on the sands of the Cinéma de la Plage this evening as the audience is taken back to the menacing waters of Amity Island, the playground of Jaws (1975), Steven Spielberg's second film Still from the...
CANNES CLASSICS - The Last Detail; a little-known film starring Jack Nicholson

the 21.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2013 at 8:59 PM

The Last Detail directed by Hal Ashby earned Jack Nicholson his first award: the Best Actor Award at the 1974 Festival de Cannes. In it, he plays the role of a badass naval officer sporting tattoos and a moustache.The Last Detail is a relatively unsung classic directed by Hal Ashby starring a Jack Nicholson who was already famous at...
CANNES CLASSICS - Shepard & Dark, the chronicle of an unusual friendship

the 21.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2013 at 10:54 PM

On the occasion of a tribute to Joanne Woodward, Cannes Classics is screening the first film by American director Treva Wurmfeld, Shepard & Dark, produced by the famous star of The Three Faces of Eve (1957). The documentary looks at the complex friendship between the actor Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark. Photo from the film © RROn one...
PLANTU - One day, one drawing

the 21.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2013 at 10:36 AM
COMPETITION - La Grande Bellezza, the other face of Rome's Dolce vita

the 21.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2013 at 10:57 PM

Two years after having travelled throughout the length and breadth of the USA with Sean Penn in This Must Be The Place, Paolo Sorrentino returns to his home country to paint an unindulgent picture of the Italian aristocracy undermined by boredom, set in a refined Rome. Photo from the film © RRRome, its green gardens, its antique...
RENDEZ-VOUS UN CERTAIN REGARD - Sarah Prefers to Run by Chloé Robichaud

the 21.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2013 at 1:48 AM

With a short film In Competition last year and a full-length movie in Un Certain Regard this year, Chloé Robichaud is pressing forward step by step at Cannes. Her character, Sarah, is more of a middle-distance runner. To the point of leaving her neighbourhood for a place in the best university athletics club in Montréal, despite...
UN CERTAIN REGARD RENDEZ-VOUS - Bastards (Les Salauds) by Claire Denis

the 21.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2013 at 2:10 AM

For her return to Un Certain Regard with Bastards, Claire Denis reconnects with Vincent Lindon eleven years after Vendredi Soir. This time, he slips into the skin of Marco, the captain of a container-ship, who receives a distressed phone call from his sister in Paris following her husband's suicide. Claiming she knows who pushed him...
UN CERTAIN REGARD RENDEZ-VOUS: Lucia Puenzo, figurehead of the new Argentinian cinema

the 21.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2013 at 10:53 PM

Lucia Puenzo, daughter of filmmaker Luis Puenzo, is no slouch. At 36, she has already made three films and written five novels. Her last feature film XXY picked up the Grand Prix at the International Critic’s Week in 2007, before being voted best Argentinian film of the year. In 2006, the young director took up a Residence at the...
COMPETITION - Steven Soderbergh and friends

the 21.05.2013 at 8:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2013 at 10:48 PM

Behind the Candelabra: This biopic, based on the life of the pianist, Valentino Liberace, brings Steven Soderbergh to the Festival de Cannes for the sixth time after Sex, Lies and Videotape, which won him the Palme d’or back in 1989. As usual, Soderbergh has put together a star cast in order to recreate the life of this talented...