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Clip: Innocence Lost in Alicia Duffy’s All Good Children
I'll be seeing a good number of films from this year's Director's Fortnight section. With a line-up comprised of several feature debuts, one of the film's I'm most itching to see is Alicia Duffy's All Good Children, who until I mentioned her here, I hadn't a clue as to who this filmmaker was. I've since become a fan of hers, thanks to her last short film in 2003's The Most Beautiful Man in the World (which was presented in Cannes) and the trailer below (click on screen cap) -- they both present the POV of a child or children under duress.
Trailer: Sean Durkin’s Mary Last Seen – A Prelude of Worse Things to Come
Of the extremely few Sundance items that are receiving their international premiere in Cannes this year we find Sean Durkin's Mary Last Seen -- a visually descriptive exploration of a man with a hidden agenda played by Brady Corbet. To be featured in the Director's Fortnight section, the short film gave me the creeps...not in a horror film related kind of way, but in a queasy, I'm not sure I really want to know what comes next or go there manner.
Clips: Sisterly Love in Pieds Berthaud’s Nus sur les Limaces
Ludivine Sagnier's schtick as a fawn lost without it's mother may be too much of a stretch of the imagination in this pairing of clips (click on the screen caps) below for Fabienne Berthaud's Lily Sometimes.
Clip: Dupieux’s Debut Film with a ‘Rubber’ Soul
In the eyes of many, last year was Quentin's Cannes. This year the most talked film may come from Quentin again...Quentin Dupieux (aka Mr. Oizo) that is. A road movie from a tire's perspective, Rubber is one of the weirdest offerings on the Croisette this year - and will be showcased in the section known as Critic's Week...
Kristen Stewart Gets Instant Cred by Going ‘On the Road’
Legions of Twilight fans will receive a lesson in quintessential Americana sometime next year. I think Focus Features would have loved to have made this announcement next week, but the giddy Kristen Stewart revealed to the paper trade (which ThePlaylist picked up on) that she's on tap for role of "Mary Lou" the child-bride of Neal Cassady surrogate Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund) in Walter Salles' adaptation of Jack Keruoac's iconic Beat-Generation.
