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Cannes' Eight Buzziest Films
Tetro
Thirty years after Apocalypse Now won the Palme d’Or as a work in progress, Francis Ford Coppola returned to Cannes with Tetro. But he did not arrive in triumph, in a gala competition slot. Instead, he turned down an out-of-competition offer and tiptoed into a Cannes sidebar, the Director’s Fortnight event, with the operatic, black-and-white, multinational Tetro, which he cast with Vincent Gallo and Carmen Maura when Matt Dillon and Javier Bardem dropped out. “It’s a personal independent film,” explained the director, who is releasing the movie himself. “Nothing in the film really happened, but it is all true.”
The Buzz: While Tetro marks an improvement over Coppola’s opaque 2007 effort, Youth Without Youth, it plays best to non-English speakers.
Up
Pixar goes 10 for 10 with its latest CG adventure, about an old man sailing his house with air balloons to South America. In a first for the festival, Cannes conferred prestige to the team behind Monsters Inc. and Wall-E by giving an opening-night berth to an animated family film—in 3-D, no less. “I don’t want this to end!” cried beaming Pixar/Disney animation czar John Lasseter from the top of the red carpet steps of the grand Theatre Lumiere.
The Buzz: Up is a cinch to be among the year’s best-reviewed Oscar contenders—albeit in the animated feature ghetto.
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Thanks Anne, Just the sort of useful summary that we need But only this few so far??Makes me want to know more about Bright Star-- since Campion has been out of the competition for so long.
In Tetro, the female star's name is Maribel Verdu, not Carmen Maura
That is true, but the part that Javier Bardem was going to play was the literary critic played by Carmen Maura.
I can't wait to see Cornish and Whishaw in Campion's new indie film Bright Star when it opens in theaters Sept. 18th. The visuals looks stunning, and the story sounds interesting, too. If you haven't seen the trailer for Bright Star, you can find it here on the updated official site.
brightstar-movie.com
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