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Edited by Sarah Cooper
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screendaily.com Recapturing the spirit of ’68
BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW Cannes’ parallel section, Direc- tors’ Fortnight, aimed at avant- garde, independent-minded fare, opens today with Michel Gondry’s The We And The I. Alongside the central 21 fea-
tures and 10 shorts, new chief Edouard Waintrop is spearhead- ing a series of initiatives aimed at catching the spirit of the Etats généraux du cinéma debates of 1968 out of which the section was born in 1969. The debates took place after a
group of directors led by Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut and Claude Lelouch stormed the festi- val and shut it down in May 1968 out of support for the worker pro- tests across France. “I was 16 years old at the time,
and at high school… but I remem- ber hearing about the events in
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Cannes,” recalls the former Libération critic and director of the Fribourg International Film Festival in Switzerland. “I want to recapture the spirit
of camaraderie and friendship that existed in 1968 and to make
Caught on camera… intentionally
BY SARAH COOPER The exhibitionists among you might enjoy pop-up bar Chivas House (between the Carlton and the Martinez), which will be home
Smorgasbord tempts buyers
What’s hotter than Scandi crime? Well, maybe Scandi food. Here in Cannes tonight, key Nordic companies are inviting select buyers and programmers to an invite-only event, the Nordic Kitchen Party. They say it will be like the best ‘home’ parties where everyone hangs out in the kitchen (oh no, now that Ikea commercial song is in my head). Fresh Nordic food — using
ingredients from the region — will be served ‘in an unconventional way’ from Copenhagen-based Cofoco. A sneak peek at the menu reveals ham-hock terrine, Nordic goat cheese, salmon, mackerel, anchovies, rhubarb juice and Mackmyra whisky. Jazz stylings will be provided
by Swedish-Icelandic actress- singer Edda Magnason, who stars in the new fruity titled Per Fly film Monica Z — A Lingonberry In A Cocktail.
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to Screen’s official photo booth from today until May 27 between the hours of 3pm-5pm, and 10pm- 2am. The best photos of the day will
Good Vibrations
Directors’ Fortnight a place of exchange where film-makers can share their experiences,” he adds. Waintrop has drafted in estab-
lished French directors Christo- phe Blanc, Eric Guirado, Pierre Salvadori and Pierre Schöller to chaperone the Directors’ Fort- night film-makers. He and his team have also put
together four debates revolving around key issues and trends in the cinema world, including a dis- cussion on “new adventurousness in French Cinema” and a session, headed up by Gangs Of Wasseypur director Anurag Kashyap on the multi-faceted nature of Indian cinema. “It is just a start,” says
Waintrop. “My priority this year was the selection but we’re hop- ing to build on these initiatives in the future.”
make it into Screen’s dailies, and you can access the rest at www.
screenbooth-chivashouse.com. Of course, if you’re of the opin-
ion that what goes on in Cannes stays in Cannes, then you might want to steer clear.
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Meet the debutants BRANDON CRONENBERG, ANTIVIRAL
Brandon Cronenberg, son of David, makes his feature directorial debut with Antiviral in Un Certain Regard, about a man who sells celebrity diseases to the obsessed public. It premieres Saturday; TF1 handles sales.
Why did this theme of a celebrity-obsessed culture inspire you to write this story? I’m interested in discussing certain common aspects of our culture by caricaturing them just enough to counteract our habituation. In the case of celebrity, I think that world is fascinating, both because of how grotesque it can be and how much it’s really just one version of a much broader human impulse to deify and eviscerate.
The film’s themes sound similar to some of your father’s work. And obviously he has a film in Cannes this year too [Cosmopolis]. Do you think there will be too much comparison with his work, or do you think his films are a direct inspiration for you? I don’t think either are true. It’s possible there are some legitimate comparisons to be made but I’m really just doing what I find interesting, and if there is any thematic overlap with my father’s work it’s to be expected, given that we share genes and he helped raise me. I don’t really have enough distance from his films to be inspired by them in the way that people usually mean by that.
Sarah Gadon seems to be a very in-demand rising actress. What
SnowPatrol feels Vibrations
BY SARAH COOPER Snow Patrol is the latest British band (following Coldplay) to try its hand at producing movies, coming on board Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn’s biopic about Bel- fast’s ‘godfather of punk’ Terri Hooley, Good Vibrations, which has its market premiere here today and is being sold by The Works. Snow Patrol drummer Johnny
Quinn used to buy records from Hooley’s shop, before going on to work there and even play in his band. “Over the years Terri started coming to our gigs, so we had that
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personal attachment,” says Quinn, speaking to Screen from Phoenix, Arizona, where the Northern Irish band was on tour. “Everyone knows about the Troubles, but music was the one thing where it didn’t matter which side you were from.” As well as helping out financially,
the band played a gig at Belfast’s Ulster Hall to draw a crowd for a scene in the film. While Quinn says he is more than happy with the way the film has turned out, the band won’t be giving up their day jobs. “It’s a lot harder to make a movie than an album, that’s for sure.”
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appealed to you to cast her? We needed someone both believable as a deified superstar and talented enough to be completely convincing as a human being during glimpses behind the surface of the icon. Sarah has an enthralling screen quality that makes it possible to buy her as a huge celebrity, and she’s also an incredibly skilled actor.
How does it feel to have your debut feature land in Cannes? It’s beyond thrilling.
Will what you are working on next be something similar to Antiviral? I have a few projects I’m working on at the moment, which are different from Antiviral but maybe not completely unrelated. Wendy Mitchell
Antiviral
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