We've really got to admit this year at Cannes we haven't seen a film as powerful as
History of Violence, as touching as
The Child, as brilliant as
Match Point, as refreshing as [Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu's]
To Paint or Make Love, as intense as
Keane. Some images nonetheless stick in one's mind: Nanni Moretti looking into the camera at the end of
Caïmon; Louis Garrel addressing the viewer in
Dans Paris; the beautiful team climb in
Indigènes, John Cameron Mitchell's emotion at 2 a.m. Saturday at the end of the press screening of
Marie Antoinette; Asia Argento, astonishing a revolutionary chorus on bikes in
Translyvania; the singer Christophe pensive in front of his theater glass in
When I Was a Singer. You could have seen this same shot in
Kristall, a disturbing short film shown at the beginning of the festival during the Semaine de la Critique -- it consisted of a collage of images dug up from the History of Cinema consisting of shots in which the actor (or more often actress) looks at her/himself in a mirror, examines her/himself with some concern, always with music that one might describe as …chilling. Vanity and reflection: that's a film well represented at the Festival de Cannes.
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