WEIRDLAND: Cannes, a special festival

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Cannes, a special festival

David Fincher, Mark Ruffalo and wife, Jake Gyllenhaal and Chloe Sevigny, presenting "Zodiac" in Cannes Film Festival, on 17th May 17, 2007.
"Taking Woodstock" premiere in Cannes, 2009.Emile Hirsch and his girlfriend Brianna Domont.

Ben Whishaw, Director Jane Campion & Abbie Cornish - "Bright Star" Photo Call, May 15, 2009 - Palais des Festivals.

Monica Bellucci and Sophie Marceau at "Don't Look Back" Premiere, 16th 2009.Juliette Binoche, 62nd Annual Cannes Film Festival.Rachel Weisz presenting her new film "Agora", at the Palais Des Festivals on 17th May, 2009."Of course, Cannes is about business. Cinema itself is an unstable and seductive marriage of art and commerce, aesthetics and entrepreneurialism. Cannes and Hollywood, though they each claim to represent different outlooks – the former positions itself against the crass globalism of the latter, while the latter derides the elitism of the former – need each other: Hollywood gives Cannes star power and global reach; Cannes gives Hollywood class and an intellectual fillip.


No serious filmmaker would deny its power. Not Quentin Tarantino, whose Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or in 1994.
For myself, I love Cannes because it's a place where Wong Kar-Wai is bigger than Steven Spielberg."in 2003, a French critic, enraged at Vincent Gallo's slow and self-consciously pornographic The Brown Bunny, yelled at the screen: "I've got a bigger c--k than yours!"
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

2 comments :

The_Brain said...

I also love Cannes because tickets for independent movies are more accessible than most other festivals.

Elena said...

There are so many reasons to love Cannes, it's not too far from my catalonian province, I've always wanted to attend their festival.