The Daily 2013

23 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 - The Big Blue (Le Grand Bleu), Besson's marine odyssey

the 23.05.2013 at 4:30 PM - Updated on 23.05.2013 at 4:49 PM

In 1988, The Big Blue (Le Grand Bleu) opened the Festival de Cannes. Twenty-five years later, Luc Besson's marine odyssey returns to the Plage Macé with a restored copy of this French cult film that drew 9.2 million spectators into the cinemas.No other feature film by Luc Besson has had such an impact on the minds of a generation as...
PRESS CONFERENCE - Jerry Lewis: "It's the first time I've accepted a role so quickly!"

the 23.05.2013 at 3:40 PM - Updated on 23.05.2013 at 5:47 PM

Daniel Noah, director of Max Rose, a feature film being presented in a Special Screening, as well as the film's actors, including the great Jerry Lewis, took part with in the customary excercise of the press conference amid general hilarity. Selected extracts below. Daniel Noah, on the film's origins:The character of Max was...
QUOTE OF THE DAY

the 23.05.2013 at 3:07 PM - Updated on 23.05.2013 at 3:59 PM

"I believe in the value of silence in film and life, as there's a lot of talk around, sometimes too much"Robert Redford
PRESS CONFERENCE - ABDELLATIF KECHICHE: "I have started to imagine new chapters"

the 23.05.2013 at 2:41 PM - Updated on 23.05.2013 at 5:06 PM

There were a lot of questions for Abdellatif Kechiche and his team at the press conference for Blue is the Warmest Colour (La Vie d’Adèle – chapitre 1 & 2). The filmmaker was accompanied by his two actresses, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux, and his producers Brahim Chioua and Vincent Maraval. Abdellatif Kechiche on the...
CONFERENCE - Alexander Payne: "It's a story that's both funny and sad, a bit like life"

the 23.05.2013 at 12:11 PM - Updated on 23.05.2013 at 4:19 PM

Alexander Payne attended the press conference this morning for Nebraska, his black and white road movie, which is presented today in Competition. To answer the questions from the journalists, the director was accompanied by the actors Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb and Angel McEwan, as well as the prodcuers Ron Yerxa and Albert...
CONVERSATION - Lynne Ramsay: "I like to push the forms of visual expression to their limit."

the 23.05.2013 at 12:00 PM - Updated on 23.05.2013 at 1:53 PM

A recent graduate, Lynne Ramsay's debut behind the camera is creating quite a stir. Small Deaths (1996), the short film she made for her graduating project, won the Jury Prize in Cannes. Since then, the Scottish director's career has been enriched by numerous other shorts, but also with three feature films: Ratcatcher, Morven Callar,...
DID YOU KNOW? Un Certain Regard in Paris

the 23.05.2013 at 11:21 AM - Updated on 23.05.2013 at 3:33 PM

The Un Certain Regard Official Selection will be screened at the Reflet Medicis Cinema in Paris from Wednesday May 29th to Tuesday June 4th 2013.► Find out the detailed screening schedule on Sunday May 26th. LE REFLET MEDICIS - 3, rue Champollion 75005 Paris. T: 01 43 54 42 34
In attendance at Cannes

the 23.05.2013 at 10:12 AM - Updated on 23.05.2013 at 10:27 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 Arthur ALEMANIA JR Adolfo ALIX JR Ali ASGARI Adam BAKRI Angeli ...
CANNES CLASSICS - An Autumn Afternoon: a chronicle of Japanese customs

the 23.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2013 at 4:16 PM

An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma No Aji), directed in 1962, was the last film to be made by Yasujiro Ozu, one of the masters of Japanese cinema. It has been restored by the Japanese studios Shochiku for the 110th anniversary of the director's birth. Shuhei Hirayama lives with his daughter Michiko. The example of one of his teachers,...
TRIBUTE - Jerry Lewis, 87 years old and almost as many roles

the 23.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2013 at 4:15 PM

Jerry Lewis, the tireless joker, a man with many hats, actor, screenwriter and producer. He is a film legend who will be celebrated this year at the Festival de Cannes in Max Rose by Daniel Noah. The director will sign his very first film, while the actor has seventy films to his credit. Photo from the film shoot © RR Jerry Lewis...
CANNES CLASSICS - Beauty and the Beast: Jean Cocteau's most popular film

the 23.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2013 at 4:48 PM

For the fifitieth anniversary of Jean Cocteau's death, Cannes Classics is projecting Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête), his second film after The Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d’un Poète). The fairy tale has just been digitally restored by the SNC/Groupe M6 and the Cinémathèque Française. This new copy will allow viewers to...
IN COMPETITION - Alexander Payne returns home

the 23.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2013 at 3:38 PM

Following the exotic The Descendants, Nebraska is something of a return home for Alexander Payne. The winner of an Oscar in 2011, a member of the Nanni Moretti Jury last year, the director is once again in Competition eleven years after About Schmidt, this time to present a road movie with a comic twist. Destination: his native...
COMPETITION - The warm colours of Abdellatif Kechiche

the 23.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2013 at 2:54 PM

An adaptation of the comic strip Bleu est une couleur chaude, Blue is the warmest colour (La Vie d’Adèle - Chapitre 1 & 2) is the fifth feature film by the Franco-Tunisian director, and the first to be selected in Cannes. It tells the story of a passionate love affair between two young women from different social circumstances,...
RENDEZ-VOUS UN CERTAIN REGARD - Norte, The End of History by Lav Diaz

the 23.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2013 at 3:39 PM

Norte, The End of History is the eighth film from Lav Diaz, who is in the Official Selection at Cannes for the first time. As with Death in the Land of Encantos (2007), which was honoured with an award at the Jeonju International Film Festival, the Philippino filmmaker has seen a number of his films receive a unanimous vote at...
CANNES CLASSICS - Opium, Cocteau to music

the 23.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2013 at 4:49 PM

On the occasion of the tribute to Jean Cocteau for the fiftieth anniversary of his death, Cannes Classics is screening a musical comedy that Arielle Dombasle has dedicated to the director of Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) (1946).Jean Cocteau was only thirty when he fell passionately in love with the writer Raymond...
PLANTU - One day, one drawing

the 23.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2013 at 9:16 AM
RENDEZ-VOUS UN CERTAIN REGARD: Katrin Gebbe, in the mood for Nan Goldin

the 23.05.2013 at 9:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2013 at 5:23 PM

Young German director, Katrin Gebbe, is in the running for the Caméra d’or with Tore Tanzt (Nothing Bad Can Happen) about the face-off between Tore, a youth who belongs to a Christian punk movement called the Jesus Freaks and Benno, who sets out to undermine his beliefs. How did your film come about?Tore Tanzt is based on a...