Early buzz about Cannes 2012 and the American entries.
There's a big article in today's (Sat. May 19, 2012) NY Times about Hong Sang-soo's new film IN ANOTHER COUNTRY with an interview with Isabelle Huppert, who went to Japan with the Korean director to shoot, starting without a script, only a place. Here is the photo from the Times., Yu Jun-Sang, who plays a lifeguard, and Isabelle Huppert, enjoying herself in the rain. Cannes likes Hong (as does the New York Film Festival) and IN ANOTHER COUNTRY is in competition.She is delighted that Mr. Hong is in competition. “He wants to compete with his different kind of music, and I love the way he filmed me, just like any other woman in the landscape.”--Joan Dupont, NYT, May 18, 2012
I will put up some Paris film-related and Cannes-related photos of my own shortly. There are Cannes stories in a lot of the weekend editions of magazines and papers. The stars of Audiard's RUST AND BONE are featured as they have been all week, especially Marion Cotillard. This looks like the most prominent French film in the festival.
What about American films? Besides Wes Anderson's MOONRISE KINGDOM, there is Walter Salles' adaptation of Kerouac's ON THE ROAD (American novel, mostly American actors but Brazilian director, of course) and I don't know if I've mentioned Andrew Dominik's KILLING THEM SOFTLY, starring Brad Pitt, with Ray Liotta and Richard Jenkins.Sounds a little like something Joe Carnahan might do. There is also Jeff (SHOTGUN STORIES, TAKE SHELTER) Nichols' MUD. Lee Daniels' PAPERBOY is in competition, though its merits have been strongly questioned; however his PRECIOUS got a 15-minute ovation after being shown in the 2009 Cannes Un Certain Regard category. Out of competition is HEMINGWAY & GELLHORN (a docucrama), which there's a positive buzz about, directed by Philip Kaufman, who directed HENRY AND JUNE and THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, and wrote the INDIANA JONES movies and THE RIGHT STUFF. MOONRISE KINGDOM is the opening night film, and it also turns out to be superb, one of Anderson's very best films. KILLING THEM SOFTLY got good marks from Mike D'Angelo and MUD almost as good. PAPERBOY got general boos. ON THE ROAD has been super-hyped in France and may be well-promoted in the US, but it turned out not to be a huge success critically.Jackie Cogan is a professional enforcer who investigates a heist that went down during a mob-protected poker game.
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