The Daily 2011

18 May

Phrase of the day

the 18.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2011 at 1:07 PM

In all aspects of work we prize speed. But perhaps our ancestors, with their abilitiy to wait, had a better sense of priorities than us today? Naomi Kawase
Xavier Durringer: "Politicians kill each other with little phrases rather than guns."

the 18.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2011 at 9:57 AM

The director came to present his feature film The Conquest, selected Out of Competition. He was accompanied by actors Hippolyte Girardot, Samuel Labarthe, Bernard Lecoq, Denis Podalydès and Florence Pernel, writer Patrick Rottman, composer Nicolas Piovani and producers Eric and Nicolas Altmeyer. Eric Altmeyer describes the birth of...
Vincent Lindon: "There was no shooting. There was no set. There are no words for what happened."

the 18.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 18.05.2011 at 7:35 PM

The press conference for Pater, screened yesterday In Competition, brought together Michel Seydoux (producer), Vincent Lindon (actor and the Prime Minister) and Alain Cavalier (director and the President). The three approached the task mischievously. Vincent Lindon on the birth of the project "We all have dreams. My dream was to...
Gilles Jacob Speech for Jean-Paul Belmondo

the 18.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 20.05.2011 at 10:31 AM

Speech given by the President of the Festival on 17 May 2011 for the Palme d’Honneur awarded to Jean-Paul Belmondo in recognition of his career. “If you don’t like the sea, if you don’t like the mountains, if you don’t like the city, go to Hell!” It was with these words, written by Godard, that you made your entrance...
Naomi Kawase: "After the earthquake, I became aware of the fragile beauty of the earth."

the 18.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2011 at 4:06 PM

Naomi Kawase presented her film in Competition, Hanezu No Tsuki, at a press conference, accompanied by actress Hako Oshima and actors Tetsuya Akikawa and Tohta Komizu. Naomi Kawase, on her vision of the tragic events in Japan: "The situation in Japan is complex: there are still hundreds of thousands of refugees. My thoughts go...
Lars Von Trier : "I like the notion of suffering and of guilt driving melancholy"

the 18.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 05.06.2011 at 8:04 PM

The Danish film director Lars Von Trier, along with Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg and the rest of the Melancholia team, responds to questions from journalists. Extracts. Lars Von Trier on the plot of Melancholia : "For me, it's not really a film about the end of the world but about a state of mind: melancholy. The planet is...
In attendance at Cannes

the 18.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 18.05.2011 at 3:06 PM

The actors expected to be in attendance in Cannes today are: Sarah ADLER, Tetsuya AKIKAWA, Elena ANAYA, Richard ANCONINA, Yvan ATTAL, Irene AZUELA, Antonio BANDERAS, Alice BARNOLE, Mikhail BARSKOVICH, Claude BAZ.MOUSSAWBAA, Guy BEDOS, Berenice BEJO, Jean-Paul BELMONDO, Paul BELMONDO, Benjamin BIOLAY, Michel BOMPOIL, Elodie BOUCHEZ,...
A Palme d’Or for Jean-Paul Belmondo

the 18.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 23.06.2011 at 2:39 PM

Last night the Festival de Cannes paid tribute to Jean-Paul Belmondo by dedicating a special evening to him whereby he was awarded a Palme d’or. The screening of a documentary, a meal and a party was the order of the evening to celebrate the actor. "I am very moved by this Palme d’or which has touched my heart". Jean-Paul...
A Portrait of Roger Corman as the Father of Modern Cinema

the 18.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 05.06.2011 at 7:52 PM

Selected for Cannes Classics, Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel retraces the life and career of the director and producer. The first feature film by the director Alex Stapleton, the documentary is competing for the Caméra d'or. Director and producer of low-budget B movies, Roger Corman is behind several large-scale...
18 Days: the Egyptial revolution as seen by Egyptian filmmakers

the 18.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2011 at 4:49 PM

Egypt will inaugurate a new initiative at the Festival de Cannes, which will be repeated each year in Around the Selection: the guest country. As the highlight of this tribute is the screening of Tamantashar Yom (18 Days), a collective work on the Egyptian revolution, signed by ten filmmakers, including Yousry Nasrallah. 18...
Loverboy, chronicle of a love story

the 18.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2011 at 11:35 AM

The young Romanian filmmaker Catalin Mitulescu, winner of the Palme d’Or for Short Film in 2004 for Trafic, is presenting his second film, Loverboy, in Un Certain Regard. It is the story of a passionate idyll in a context of prostitution.At the age of 20, Lucas is a handsome and seductive young man whom girls find irresistable....
The Murderer, action at Un Certain Regard

the 18.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2011 at 4:02 PM

Three years after competing in the Caméra d’Or with The Chaser, NA Hong-jin, who has been taken on by Fox, has become one of the most brilliant representatives of young Korean cinema. He is coming back to Cannes with an ambitious action thriller, The Murderer, presented in Un Certain Regard.His film, The Chaser, won numerous...
Cinéfondation: opening of the Selection

the 18.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2011 at 4:23 PM

The Cinéfondation invites the cream of the world’s film schools to Cannes. This year, sixteen directors from fourteen countries have been selected. The first four short films are being screened today.Trained in Singapore, French filmmaker Nathanael Carton opens the Cinéfondation programme with Suu and Ichikawa. In Japan, an old man...
Stavisky returns to Cannes after 37 years

the 18.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2011 at 4:45 PM

Presented in Cannes Classics in the framework of the tribute to Jean-Paul Belmondo, Stavisky by Alain Resnais was in the running for the Palme d'Or in 1974. Stavisky retraces the extraordinary rise of Serge Alexandre Stavisky, a notorious crook in the 1930s, who maintained close relations with people in power. The circumstances of...
Did you know? Social networks

the 18.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 19.05.2011 at 11:20 AM

If you want up to date news by the minute on the Festival de Cannes (photos, articles…), follow it on Twitter or become a fan on the Festival's Facebook page.
Somber wandering through beautiful Oslo

the 18.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 21.05.2011 at 4:20 PM

Joachim Trier's entire life has been recorded on film. At the age of four, the Norwegian director was given a Super 8 camera, and started making films with his father. Thirty-three years and three films later, Oslo, August 31st is being presented at Un Certain Regard. Oslo with its port, and Cathedral… Oslo, 31st August is...
Naomi Kawase meditates on our relationship with time and nature

the 18.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2011 at 12:52 PM

For her third In Competition entry at the Festival de Cannes, the Japanese director presents Hanezu No Tsuki (Hanezu), an ode to nature, the pleasure of waiting and respecting ancestral traditions. Nature has always had pride of place in Naomi Kawase’s films – “people’s suffering in modern societies is connected to our...
Lars Von Trier's apocalyptic wedding

the 18.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2011 at 12:42 PM

Two years after Antichrist, the director of Dancer In The Dark, which won the Palme d’or in 2000, returns to Competition with Melancholia. This feature film with psychological undertones marks the filmmaker's first venture into science fiction. If there's one thing that cinema followers agree on regarding Lars Von Trier, it's that...
What happens when the technical team get in on the act

the 18.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 05.06.2011 at 7:28 PM

As part of the Festival's tribute to Jean-Paul Belmondo, the Cinéma de la Plage is screening Le Magnifique (How to Destroy the Reputation of the Greatest Secret Agent/The One Magnificent) by Philippe de Broca. The filmmaker had to give his technical team walk-on parts to make filming easier. The original idea developed in Le...
3 Hours in Heaven with Cannes Classics

the 18.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2011 at 12:45 PM

Cannes Classics presents Children of Paradise* by Marcel Carné just as it was released in 1945. That’s 3’10’’ of film shown in the Salle du Soixantième. “We quickly realised that we were going to have a long film” Marcel Carné explained. “And André Paulvé (producer, Ed.) suggested that I do it in two epochs”....
La Conquête (The Conquest), a first for the political film genre

the 18.05.2011 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 22.05.2011 at 12:36 PM

In La Conquête (The Conquest), Xavier Durringer has created an unprecedented feature film. The piece is being presented Out of Competition and examines the current French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, played by Denis Podalydes. Never before has an active Head of State been the subject of a film. Nicolas Sarkozy, Dominique de...