Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Brazil:Special guest country to the 65th Cannes film festival




 Brazil:Special guest country to the 65th Cannes film festival





This year the Festival de Cannes celebrates Brazil as its “special guest country”. Following on from Egypt in 2011, it is the second year in a row that the Festival has shone the spotlight on a great filmmaking nation.

The quality of Brazil’s output is clearly on display with four films in Official Selection, plus On the Road by Walter Salles in Competition.

A Música segundo Tom Jobim by Nelson Pereira dos Santos, co-directed with Tom Jobim’s granddaughter Dora Jobim, will be the subject of as Special Screening on Tuesday 22 May. Tom Jobim, composer of the famous “Girl from Ipanema” was one of the founding fathers of Bossa Nova. Nelson Pereira dos Santos for his part is considered as one of the pioneers of new Brazilian cinema.

Also being screened during Cannes Classics:

- Xica da Silva by Carlos Diegues, one of the most prominent Brazilian directors in terms of the Festival de Cannes (in particular with his films Bye bye Brasil - 1980, Quilombo - 1986, Rio Zone - 1987). He is President of the Jury at this year’s Caméra d´Or.

- Twenty Years Later by Eduardo Coutinho. Eduardo Coutinho is regarded as Brazil’s most important documentary maker, having also made Edificio Master, The Mighty Spirit and Peões.

Carlos Diegues, Nelson Pereira dos Santos and Juliana Rojas (whose Trabalhar Cansa was selected for Un Certain Regard in 2011), will also take part in a debate at the Short Film Corner.

Director Karim Ainouz (whose Madame Sata was selected for Un Certain Regard in 2002 and Abismo Prateado at the Directors’ Fortnight in 2011) is a member of the Cinéfondation and short films juries.

The homage to Brazil will conclude with a musical fiesta on Tuesday 22 May at the Agora from 11 pm.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

65th FESTIVAL DE CANNES AWARDS





The official Jury of this 65th Festival de Cannes, presided over by Nanni Moretti, revealed this evening the prizes winners during the Closing Ceremony.
Bérénice Bejo hosted Audrey Tautou and Adrien Brody on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière to award the Palme d’or to Michael Haneke for his film Amour (Love).
Claude Miller’s Thérèse Desqueyroux starring Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche and Anaïs Demoustier, was screened at the end of the ceremony.

SYNOPSIS OF AMOUR(LOVE)

Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers.
Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family.
One day, Anne has an attack.
The couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Michael HANEKE
CREDITS
Michael HANEKE - Director
Michael HANEKE - Screenplay
Darius KHONDJI - Cinematography
Jean-Vincent PUZOS - Set Designer
Nadine MUSE - Film Editor
Monika WILLI - Film Editor
Jean-Pierre LAFORCE - Sound
Guillaume SCIAMA - Sound


ACTORS
Jean-Louis TRINTIGNANT - Georges
Emmanuelle RIVA - Anne
Isabelle HUPPERT - Eva
Alexandre THARAUD – Alexandre

Biography of Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke (born 23 March 1942) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work. Besides working as filmmaker he also teaches directing at the Filmacademy Vienna.
At the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, his film The White Ribbon won the Palme d'Or for best film, and at the 67th Golden Globe Awards the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2012, his film, Love, premiered and competed at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The film would go on to win the Palme d'Or, making it his second win of the prestigious award in three years and putting him in an elite club of only seven with the likes of Francis Ford Coppola. He has made films in French, German and in English.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

UNCERTAIN REGARDS


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Official Selection 2012


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Official Selection 2012

 


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