The Daily 2006

Presented in the section Un Certain Regard and in the running for the Caméra d'Or, The Unforgiven is the first feature film by Yoon Jong-Bin, a young 27-year-old Korean director. He evokes the prevarications of a friendship between two young men during their military service. On one hot summer's evening,...

The Cannes Mix programme continues this evening at 8:45 pm with a DJ set orchestrated by Fred Elalouf at the Beach Cinema. Having revisited the soundtracks of French films of the 60s and 70s, this electro scene artist will attack live for 45 minutes musical themes of films made in Bollywood, thus honouring one of the most...

With a celebration in its colours organised yesterday evening, at 10 pm, on the beach of Majestic and in the presence of Mr Gilles Jacob, Mr Michel Vauzelle, President of the Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, and Mikhaïl Chvydkoï, Director of the Russian Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography, Russia...

Natalie Press, Martin Compston, Andrea Arnold, Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Nicolas Chaudeurge and Robbie Ryan

British director Andrea Arnold answered questions from the international press about her film Red Road, presented today in competition. At this press conference, the filmmaker was surrounded by editor Nicolas Chaudeurge, cinematographer Robbie Ryan and film stars Kate Dickie, Natalie Press, Martin Compston and Tony Curran....

Presented out of competition, the documentary An Inconvenient Truth by Davis Guggenheim follows former American Vice-President Al Gore in his determination to denounce the world's inaction faced with the global warming of the planet. Ever since his defeat in the presidential elections of 2000, Al Gore has criss-crossed the...

With Shortbus, presented out of competition, young American filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell makes his Cannes baptism. This tragicomedy screened at midnight enables the director of the critically acclaimed Hedwig and the Angry Inch to lead us into the daily lives of several New Yorkers, where feelings and sex play a significant...

The entire film crew from Shortbus was on hand to present their out-of-competition film. Questions from the journalists went to director John Cameron Mitchell and actors Lindsay Beamish, Raphael Barker, Sook-Yin Lee, Justin Bond, Jay Branna, PJ DeBoy, Paul Dawson, Peter Stickles, as well as producers Tim Perell and Howard...

First French Film in the running this year for the Palme d'Or, Charlie Says marks the return to the Croisette of filmmaker-actress Nicole Garcia, who already presented in competition August 15th in 1986 and The Adversary in 2002, and was further honoured with the title of Jury Member in 2000. With this new feature film whose...

The Charlie Says press conference was held today in the presence of director Nicole Garcia, screenwriters Frédéric Bélier-Garcia and Jacques Fieschi, producer Alain Attal as well as its stars Jean-Pierre Bacri, Vincent Lindon, Benoît Poelvoorde, Benoît Magimel and Minna Haapkyla. Highlights. ...

The Out-of-Competition film An Inconvenient Truth has brought a distinguished politician to Cannes this year, Al Gore. He answered questions from the international journalists at the press conference on the subject of his film -"global warning", in the company of the four producers Laurie David, Leslie Chilcott, Lawrence...

After Wesh, Wesh (2002), a highly remarked debut feature film, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche comes to present at Cannes, in the section Un Certain Regard, the "follow-up" (or prologue) entitled Bled Number One. "The end of Wesh, Wesh," he explains, "ends with a shot of a pond after a car chase between a cop and Kamel. We then hear...

Like Ken Loach, Marco Bellocchio is another of the well-known regulars at the Festival de Cannes. The selection of his film The Wedding Director, in the section Un Certain Regard, marks his ninth invitation to the Croisette. His last film in competition was My Mother's Smile in 2002. The Wedding Director, in the words...

Presented out of competition, within the framework of the section Cannes Classics, and in the running for the Camera d'Or, Requiem for Billy the Kid retraces, in the shape of a documentary-western, the true fate of one of the most famous bandits of the American West. "I started off with an emotion," recalls young...

Star spotting on the Croisette today: Claudine Auger, Edouard Baer, Maurice Barthélémy, Richard Berry, Dominique Blanc, Dany Boon, Guillaume Canet, Carmen Chaplin, François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, Penélope Cruz, Alfonso Cuaron, Tony Curran, Paul Dawson, Antoine De Caunes, Kate Dickie,...

The only film in competition to compete both for the Golden Palm and Golden Camera, Red Road marks the first visit to Cannes by British filmmaker Andrea Arnold. After three critically acclaimed shorts, including Wasp, which won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film in 2005, the director has made her first feature film,...

Alain Attal, Arnaud Valois, Benoît Magimel, Ferdinand Martin, Nicole Garcia, Minna Haapkyla, Vincent Lindon, Sophie Cattani, Benoît Poelvoorde, Jacques Fieschi and Jean-Pierre Bacri