"Bruno you changed my life the way you changed my dad's life, you have to know that !"
Can you think of any sweeter thank you? Amazing!
I organized this beautiful day of homage to John Singleton with her daughter in Cannes with the same passion I did for the launch in Cannes, knowing that everything we would do now would resonate dearly for her.
Walk along the croisette, the Carlton...scouting the spots where pictures with her dad had been taken...
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"She's the light"… "She's the heartbeat of the movie". Margot Robbie explains her role to NYTimes critic Farah Nayeri as Sharon Tate in ‘Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood' by Quentin TARANTINO at the press conference at Cannes. "That's how Quentin explained it to me". And that must be why she hardly has any speaking lines in the film. Robbie defended the film by explaining her role was not so much words as emotions. That she d...
“Mektoub” from Abdellah Kechiche’s new film Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo on the trail of "Mektoub, My love: Canto Uno" has a complex meaning in Arabic ("written") but one cannot help but notice that letters and the pronunciation of "ME k TOU b" are found in #METOO. Kechiche took his time to answer questions at the press conference of his new film at Cannes. He chastised journalists for their "inferior cameras" (cellphones) and ask...
Elle Fanning
The jury members for the 72:e Festival de Cannes were unanimously taken in by Palme d’Or winner The Parasite by South Korean director BONG Jo ho.
Atlantics by French filmmaker Matti Diop, according to Italian jury member Alice Rohrwacher, last year's best screenplay award winner for Happy as Lazzaro , won the heart of the jury, a film about men and young boys who die at sea and the women they leave behind at shore.
Although the awards this year were given to...
For 12 days, the 72nd edition of the Festival de Cannes has celebrated artists and films from different perspectives, making cinema a celebration of discovery and reunions shared all around the world. Tonight, on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière, Édouard Baer, the Master of Ceremonie, welcomed the Feature Films Jury headed by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu to announce the 2019 Awards.
PALME D'OR (UNANIMITY)
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Prizes awarded by La Semaine de la Critique's Jury
Ciro Guerra, president of the jury
Amira Casar, Marianne Slot, Djia Mambu & Jonas Carpignano
Nespresso
Grand Prize
J'AI PERDU MON CORPS (I LOST MY BODY) by Jérémy Clapin
Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award
Ingvar E. Sigurðsson for HVÍTUR, HVÍTUR DAGUR (A WHITE, WHITE DAY) by Hly...
Un Certain Regard 2019 presented 18 films in competition. 9 of them were first films. The Opening film was LA FEMME DE MON FRERE by Monia Chokri.
Under the presidency of Nadine Labaki (director and actress, Lebanon), the Jury was comprised of Marina Foïs (actress, France), Nurhan Sekerci-Porst (producer, Germany), Lisandro Alonso (director, Argentina) and Lukas D...
The Festival de Cannes Film Week in Hong Kong - K11 MUSEA, Victoria Dockside from 12-17 November 2019 © RR
Pierre Lescure, President of the Festival de Cannes and Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate, join forces with Adrian Cheng, founder of K11 Group and Executive vice-Chairman of New World Development, to bring the essence of the world’s most prestigious film festival to Hong Kong with the Festival de Cannes Film Week.
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The spirit of the Festival lives on! From May 24, a series of events will be bringing Official Selection films to Paris' cinemas as well as in Rennes, Nantes, Lyon and Toulouse. An incredible opportunity for movie lovers to discover the films at almost exactly the same time as the festival-goers in Cannes – and in some cases several months before they are released in cinemas.
CANNES IN PARIS, RENNES, NANTES, LYON AND TOULOUSE
FRIDAY 24 TO SUNDAY 26 MAY - IN PATH&E...
“I found a description that was good, I don't know how I composed the character, but for me it was more like a decomposition of the character.” This is what actress Virginie Efira mentioned this morning while explaining how she prepared to play her role in last night’s premiere film Sibyl.
The film follows a therapist, played by Efira, who chooses to quit her job to pursue her longtime aspiration of writing a hit novel. Just before she quits, she decides ...
The Queer Palm award for the 72:e Festival de Cannes went to Céline Sciamma's "Portrait of a Woman on Fire" in a ceremony presided over by jury president Virginie Ledoyen, the first time a woman has won the award in the feature film category.
In the 10 year history of the Queer Palm founded by Franck Finacne Maduiera, this competition is gaining in importance and widely supported by the Cannes festival that provides passes for the jury to attend the diverse selectio...
REST IN PEACE JOHN IT WAS AN HONOR TO WORK WITH YOU
It was also amazing to be able to walk your daugther in Cannes on your footsteps, honoring your career.
Check the video of that amazing day!
I am also very proud of my contribution to the international success of the film starting with a blast in cannes, and a marketing campaign designed with our french touch (eventually exported for the other Sony territories) ! It is the only time in my career in film where I have been abl...
Happy to have Stallone revive my memory lane! I had so much fun organising the premiere of Cliffhanger in Cannes for the Amfar Charity event at Hotel du Cap in 1993 (with Liz Taylor as chairwoman).
My team had organized among other crazy things 5 climbers coming down from the roof of the Palais with ropes, Eye of Tiger music on the red carpet ...and as a nice conclusion to the evening: Sly telling my "Best day in my Life" stills echoes in my head.
He will be back o...
Alain Delon gave a teary-eyed acceptance speech for his Honorary Palme d' Or at a ceremony at the Grand Salle on May 20. He was accompanied by his daughter Anouchka Delon who introduced him before he came up to the podium. Delon relied on her support and she in turn helped him through what appeared to be for him a difficult and humbling experience.
In his acceptance speech the 83 year old veteran French actor said he would be leaving his fans amidst protests from the audience who ...
A whole 37 years after the release of Rambo - First Blood in 1987, Sylvester Stallone himself returned back to the Croisette on friday to promote his new film Rambo V - Last Blood, which will be releasing this coming Fall.
The last time Stallone was featured on the Red Carpet in Cannes, it was for the premiere of his hit film Cliffhanger. The action flick star was honored last night with special screening of Ted Kotcheff’s Rambo - First Blood in the Grand Thé...
(Parasite Press Conference, Bong Joonho, Song Kangho and cast, © Lindsay Bellinger 2019)
By LINDSAY R. BELLINGER
Parasite, the new exceptional film from Korean auteur Bong Joonho, is a strong contender for the coveted Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Audiences were brought to laughter, silence, shock, contemplation and back around again by this remarkable piece of cinema. The cast clearly enjoyed the time they spent with Bong ...
(Lina Wertmüller, Cannes Classics, © Lindsay Bellinger 2019)
By LINDSAY R. BELLINGER
Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmüller made movie history in 1977 when she became the first woman nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for her 1975 film Pasqualino Settebellezze (Seven Beauties). It starts off making you laugh and then progresses through an array of emotions before finally hitting you so hard that if the tears aren'...
Sly was in Cannes some decades ago for Cliffhanger, I was handling his film for Sony: this is what he told me on the red carpet BEST DAY IN MY LIFE. More...
Sly: ...another one for you, welcome back for Rambo 5.
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The winners for the Critics week (Semaine de le critique) have already been announced – and Nespresso who generously bestows complimentary coffee on tired and weary critics each year in the Palais has given the top prize for the best of 7 features to J'AI PERDU MON CORPS (I LOST MY BODY) by Jérémy Clapin, an animated feature about Naoufel , a young man from North Africa who grows up in Paris. He who loses his hand and tries to complete himself , scripted by t...
(Robert Rodriguez and the cast of Red 11, © Lindsay Bellinger 2019)
By LINDSAY R. BELLINGER
Athough I waited in line for three hours to try to get into one of the two press screenings for Quentin Tarantino's much-anticipated Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood and didn't make it in either screening the day definitely wasn't a total bust. Instead, I rushed over to Director's Fortnight to join the Masterclass that Mr. Robert Rodr...
(Nicolas Bedos and his cast, © Lindsay Bellinger 2019)
By LINDSAY R. BELLINGER
La Belle époque from French writer/director/actor Nicolas Bedos screened out of competition and the press conference was full of laughs. The director and his lively actors including the exquisite Fanny Ardant, Guillame Canet, Daniel Auteuil, and Doria Tillier really showed their love for one another throughout the conference.
(Daniel Auteuil, Fanny Ardant, Nicolas...
Jury and Award Winners of the Cinéfondation 2019 © Deborah Neris / FDC
The Short Films and Cinéfondation Jury headed by Claire Denis and including Stacy Martin, Eran Kolirin, Panos H. Koutras and Cătălin Mitulescu, has awarded the 2019 Cinéfondation Prizes during a ceremony held in the Buñuel Theatre, followed by the screening of the winning films.
The Cinéfondation Selection consisted of 17 student films, chosen out of 2 000 e...
Aloha Cannes Forever it's over the 72nd closing of Cannes on the terrace of the photocall, it was the 23rd Festival for Patrick and my 40th Cannes International Film Festival.
Two nominations for the prize of the photographers entitled by the Jury "Kiss of Cinema" picture of Nicolas Winding Refn and Miles Teller, and "Touched by the Grace" photo of Roschdy Zem.
Chiara Mastroianni award for female performance at Un Certain Regard tells to the cam...
The winners for the Critics week (Semaine de la critique) have already been announced – and Nespresso who generously bestows complimentary coffee on tired and weary critics each year in the Palais has given the top prize for the best of 7 features - Nespresso Grand Prize to J'AI PERDU MON CORPS (I LOST MY BODY) by Jérémy Clapin, an animated feature about Naoufel , a young man from North Africa who grows up in Paris. The enchanting story is about a m...
It is exciting to note that Céline Sciamma, one of the founders of the French 50/50 by 2020 and her new film Portrait De La Jeune Fille En Feu ("Portrait Of A Lady On Fire") is one of the top contenders for the Palme d’Or, as she climbs the steps in Cannes after Water Lilies (2007) in Un Certain Regard. Sciamma is one of two women part of the official selection this year of 20 films. Her film is a period piece from 1770 about young artist Marianne ...
