MATCH POINT and WHERE THE TRUTH LIES at Cannes
by Andre Soares
Cannes Film Festival News:
J. Sperling Reich at FilmStew.com reports that the buzz at the Cannes Film Festival has it that American director Woody Allen’s latest film, Match Point, starring Scarlett Johansson, is supposed to be the director’s best since his 1989 comedy-drama Crimes and Misdemeanors. (The Alternative Film Guide editor is also a fan of Allen’s 1994 comedy Bullets Over Broadway.) At the press conference, Allen expressed his pleasure at working in England, where Match Point was shot and produced.
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"It really is interesting to me how people respond to the sexuality but not to the violence," Canadian director Atom Egoyan said at a news conference, where reporters were badgering him with questions about the explicit sexual scenes found in his latest film, Where the Truth Lies, which stars Colin Firth, Alison Lohman, and Kevin Bacon. "No one says that it goes too far when [Colin Firth is] bashing [a man's] head against the floor. No one ever talks about that. That’s the most gory scene I’ve ever done, and people don’t have a problem with that. It’s weird. We’re still really kind of obsessed about sex." ("Pathologically repressed" might have been a more accurate description.) Where the Truth Lies — a tale involving sex, alcohol, murder, and show business — is one of the 21 films competing for the Palme d’Or.
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American director Terry Gilliam and Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein screened to the press about 20 minutes of their upcoming fantasy film, The Brothers Grimm, which stars Matt Damon and Heath Ledger as the two fairy tale creators/adapters who, at least in the film, also happen to have lived in a fairty-tale world filled with fantastic creatures. "I tried to bring it down to a real fairy-tale level," Gilliam explained. "I want the ground to be below us, because when it disappears, it’s a longer fall." The Brothers Grimm is due out in August 2005.
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