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28.04.2021 12:56:21
As a jury led by director Spike Lee – the first Black person to ever lead Cannes' prestigious jury – begins reviewing this year's crop of films, here's what you need to know about 2021's Cannes Film Festival.
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As a jury led by director Spike Lee – the first Black person to ever lead Cannes' prestigious jury – begins reviewing this year's crop of films, here's what you need to know about 2021's Cannes Film Festival.
The Oscar winner plays a goateed, stoic Oklahoma construction worker who fights tirelessly to free his daughter (Abigail Breslin), imprisoned in France for a murder she didn't commit. The 140-minute drama, coming to screens July 30, was well-reviewed.
With Driver and Cotillard in attendance, "Annette" received a five-minute standing ovation at the Tuesday night premiere, which is standard length and a tradition at the festival (however, there are often catcalls or audience boos during bad movies). The "Annette" reviews depict an often outrageous movie musical, which features Cotillard and Driver as two parents of a gifted child, singing in some unusual situations. Vulture describes a moment in the "gloriously artificial" film "when Adam Driver lifts his head from Marion Cotillard’s crotch in the middle of performing cunnilingus to sing a love song." more
Director Wes Anderson's "The French Dispatch" will bring a host of A-list stars to the festival, including Timothée Chalamet, Frances McDormand, Owen Wilson and Bill Murray. Anderson's film will be in competition with director Sean Penn's "Flag Day," which Penn also stars in alongside Josh Brolin and Penn's actor kids Dylan and Hopper Penn. "Flag Day" tells the story of a father works as a counterfeiter, bank robber and conman to provide for his daughter.
The invitation-only festival is held in Cannes, France, located on the Mediterranean Sea's Côte d'Azur or Gold Coast. The French Riviera seaside location, about 30 miles from Monaco, has long served as a playground for the rich and famous. here
The movie stars dressed to the nines at premieres, due to a formal dress code, have only only added to the festival's esteem.
Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver opened the 2021 Cannes Film Festival Tuesday with the comedy-drama musical "Annette," directed by French auteur Leos Carax and scored by the musical duo Sparks. here
With Driver and Cotillard in attendance, "Annette" received a five-minute standing ovation at the Tuesday night premiere, which is standard length and a tradition at the festival (however, there are often catcalls or audience boos during bad movies). The "Annette" reviews depict an often outrageous movie musical, which features Cotillard and Driver as two parents of a gifted child, singing in some unusual situations. Vulture describes a moment in the "gloriously artificial" film "when Adam Driver lifts his head from Marion Cotillard’s crotch in the middle of performing cunnilingus to sing a love song." here
The festival is housed at the Palais des Festivals, with its famed red carpet-adorned steps atop which stars wave during black-tie premieres. The Palais is located at the top of the Boulevard de la Croisette, filled with gawking tourists, historic locations like The Majestic Hotel, beaches filled sun worshippers and blue waters filled with yachts. here
World War II lasted six long years. In 1946, France’s provincial government approved a revival of the Festival de Cannes as a means of luring tourists back to the French Riviera. The festival began on September 20, 1946, and 18 nations were represented. The festival schedule included Austrian American director Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend, Italian director Roberto Rossellini’s Open City, French director René Clement’s The Battle of the Rails, and British director David Lean’s Brief Encounter. At the first Cannes, organizers placed more emphasis on creative stimulation between national productions than on competition. Nine films were honored with the top award: Grand Prix du Festival.
The world’s first annual international film festival was inaugurated at Venice in 1932. By 1938, the Venice Film Festival had become a vehicle for Fascist and Nazi propaganda, with Benito Mussolini’s Italy and Adolf Hitler’s Germany dictating the choices of films and sharing the prizes among themselves. Outraged, France decided to organize an alternative film festival. In June 1939, the establishment of a film festival at Cannes, to be held from September 1 to 20, was announced in Paris. Cannes, an elegant beach city, lies southeast of Nice on the Mediterranean coast. One of the resort town’s casinos agreed to host the event. here
Films were selected and the filmmakers and stars began arriving in mid-August. Among the American selections was The Wizard of Oz. France offered The Nigerian, and Poland The Black Diamond. The USSR brought the aptly titled Tomorrow, It’s War. On the morning of September 1, the day the festival was to begin, Hitler invaded Poland. In Paris, the French government ordered a general mobilization, and the Cannes festival was called off after the screening of just one film: German American director William Dieterle’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Two days later, France and Britain declared war on Germany.
The first annual Cannes Film Festival opens at the resort city of Cannes on the French Riviera. The festival had intended to make its debut in September 1939, but the outbreak of World War II forced the cancellation of the inaugural Cannes. here
The Cannes Film Festival stumbled through its early years; the 1948 and 1950 festivals were canceled for economic reasons. In 1952, the Palais des Festivals was dedicated as a permanent home for the festival, and in 1955, the Palme d’Or (Golden Palm) award for best film of the festival was introduced, an allusion to the palm-planted Promenade de la Croisette that parallels Cannes’ celebrated beach. In the 1950s, the Festival International du Film de Cannes came to be regarded as the most prestigious film festival in the world. It still holds that allure today, though many have criticized it as overly commercial. More than 30,000 people come to Cannes each May to attend the festival, about 100 times the number of film devotees who showed up for the first Cannes in 1946. here
What it Means to the City of Cannes [links]
We all carry his hyperbolic intonations in our memories, right?
Charlotte Gainsbourg—the daughter of French singer-songwriter extraordinaire Serge Gainsbourg and versatile Brit-babe-turned-serious-thespian Jane Birkin—has made a doc about her mom, “Jane by Charlotte.” Fremaux elucidated: “It’s a nod to the film dear departed Agnes Varda made about Jane Birkin, (1988’s) ‘Jane B. par Agnès V.’ This is Jane B by C.” (In France, a nation where you can earn your high school diploma with a specialization in film history, knowing one’s ABCs means Agnès, Birkin, Charlotte.)
Speaking of music paired with the word “underground,” since I loved his previous film, I am curious about Kirill Serebrennikov’s new film “Petrov’s Flu.” The stage and screen director was not permitted to attend Cannes in 2018 to present “Leto,” his ode to Leningrad’s underground rock scene in the early 1980s, as he was under house arrest. Says Fremaux, “We don’t know if he can come to Cannes. And if he does come to France, we don’t know if he can return to Russia.” more
Ah. He’s no longer available?
Turn left outside the terminal and immediately left again and you are in the market square with the bus station at the far end. here
With bus line 8, bus stop at Quai Laubeuf, you can tour the Boulevards of Cannes and with the little electric bus, Le Fil Bleu (=the blue thread) you can travel along La Croisette and la rue d'Antibes. more
by train: Juan-les-Pins, Antibes, Nice, and Villefranche within 1 hour and Monte Carlo just over one hour. Train Schedules [links]
The railway station is a 5 min walk in the other direction (behind the Palais des Festivals and Boulevard de la Croisette). here
by bus: Nice, Villefranche, Monaco, and Grasse. [links]