Cannes 2007 Tidbits
by Andre Soares
Thomas Sotinel reviews Raphaël Nadjari’s (above] Tehilim in Le Monde:
"The decapitated family is a representation of Israeli society, the disappearance of the father symbolizing the traumas that the country has endured since its creation … Nevertheless, Tehilim doesn’t see itself as an allegory waiting to be deciphered, but as a heart-rending tale of a forced and brutal passage into adulthood."
Liam Lacey’s "Judging the Jury" at the Toronto Globe and Mail:
"As [Sarah] Polley told reporters today at the annual meet-the-jury press conference, she didn’t hesitate to say yes when Cannes asked her [to be a member of the official competition jury]. The idea of seeing a lot of great films, wining and dining, staying in Cannes and talking about movies with the likes of jury president Stephen Frears and Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk sounds like nice work if you can get. (It’s almost like being a reporter, except the company’s less exalted and you have to work every day.) The jury consists of a president — usually a well-known director or actor — and up to nine French and international personalities. Usually one well-known writer is included along with some actors, but also designers, sometimes a festival programmer. A few years [ago?], even a French rapper was included."
Ronald Bergan’s "What the French papers say" in The Guardian:
"’Boycott the Cannes festival which stinks of vulgarity. Why do you cover this sordid event each year? It exists only to enrich a social and cultural class far from those to which you are ideologically committed… There are other much more interesting festivals with better programmes, such as San Sebastian, Berlin and Venice, that don’t depend on stupefying the public and subjecting them to the values of filthy money.’
"This is from a blog on the left-leaning website of Libération, the French newspaper most similar to the Guardian. Nevertheless, Libération, and all the other papers of the host country, is covering the Cannes festival almost as extensively as the changes of government."
Chacun son cinéma / To Each His Own Cinema directors (the titles of their three-minute vignettes are between parentheses): Raymond Depardon (Open-Air Cinema), Takeshi Kitano (One Fine Day), Theo Angelopoulos (Three Minutes), Andrei Konchalovsky (In the Dark), Nanni Moretti (Diary of a Moviegoer), Hou Hsiao-Hsien (The Electric Princess House), Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Darkness), Joel and Ethan Coen (World Cinema), Alejandro González Iñárritu (Anna), Zhang Yimou (Movie Night), Amos Gitai (The Dibbuk of Haifa), Jane Campion (The Lady Bug), Atom Egoyan (Artaud Double Bill), Aki Kaurismaki (The Foundry), Olivier Assayas (Upsurge), Youssef Chahine (47 Years Later), Tsai Ming-Liang (It’s a Dream), Lars von Trier (Occupations), Raul Ruiz (The Gift), Claude Lelouch (The Cinema Around the Corner), Gus Van Sant (First Kiss), Roman Polanski (Cinema Erotique), Michael Cimino (No Translation Needed), David Cronenberg (At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World), Wong Kar Wai (I Traveled 9,000 Km to Give It to You), Abbas Kiarostami (Where Is My Romeo?), Bille August (The Last Dating Show), Elia Suleiman (Irtebak), Manoel de Oliveira (Sole Meeting), Walter Salles (5,557 Miles From Cannes), Wim Wenders (War in Peace), Chen Kaige (Zhanxiou Village), Ken Loach (Happy Ending)
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