While the entire Cannes Film Festival offers orgasmic oeuvre for the true cinephile, the Critics’ Week will close their 51st edition with a great climax of sorts in a trio of shorts from Tsai Ming-Liang and João Pedro Rodrigues. Ming-Ling who last delivered the insufferable Faces in the Main Comp a couple of years back, comes packing the short pair of Walker and Beautiful, featuring his muse Lee Kang-Sheng. Rodrigues who is currently working on a docu essay-like film (which we were thinking might show up) is also a juror for the section and won;t come to the party empty handed – Manhã de Santo António is set on June 13th, Saint Anthony’s Day – Lisbon’s patron -, lovers must offer small vases of basil with paper carnations and flags with popular quatrains as a token of their love. Normally the section does close out with a feature, so the final day may be a triple auteur threat.
"Ron and I wanted to make a film that looked at what it means to be an outsider and we wanted to explore what it takes to reach out to someone whose life is very removed from your own."
