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Cannes Video Day 7: Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine
After making a huge splash at Sundance, Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine made a stop at Cannes this year as an official Un Certain Regard selected film. The Debussy theatre was packed, and at film's end receive a fairly long standing-O type of applause - approaching the ten minute mark, which is usually reserved for exceptional films that strike a cord with the tough, mostly French audiences.
Cannes Video Day 7: Alistair Banks Griffin’s Two Gates of Sleep Part II
If you're a director showing a film in the Quinzaine, a.k.a the Director's Fortnight, you begin your day with a public press conference in a tent on the Croisette near Palais Stephanie, you break for lunch and either continue doing press stuff and you conclude your day with a night screening among those that have worked their butts off to realize one vision.
Cannes Video Day 7: Alistair Banks Griffin’s Two Gates of Sleep
Bressonian in approach and Malick-like in its use of the natural surroundings, Alistair Banks Griffin's Two Gates of Sleep is a sublime film debut that reminds me of how David Gordon Green broke out with George Washington a little more than a decade ago.
Cannes Video Day 7: Jean Paul Civeyrac’s Des filles en noir
My first thoughts after seeing Jean Paul Civeyrac's Des filles en noir is that you'd never find the equivalent in the U.S. The picture deals with an older pair of teens and their fascination with, and thoughts towards death and suicide - and there is this pitch perfect scene that addresses their possible individual fates on a tandem level.
Cannes Video Day 6: Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful
Alejandro González Iñárritu's Biutiful was perhaps the most anticipated film from the main competition this year, and even more weight might have been placed on the title since it was expected almost a full year ago.
