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Cannes 2009 Day 5: Getting to First Base with Les Beaux Gosses
The film's opening first scene announces that there will be buckets of saliva used, and perhaps other specimens as well. Raging with hormones, low grade humor and charisma, Riad Sattouf's Les Beaux Gosses (Beautiful Kids) is an instant crowd pleaser and should perform well in France, but I don't think it will make its way in territories where French is not a mother tongue
Cannes 2009 Day 4: Porumboiu’s Police, Adjectiv is an Example on How to Hash Out a Minimalist Film
A good percentage of films that make up the Un Certain Regard section each year work with lingering cameras, long takes and a non-moving camera. You had on one side the Tsai Ming-Ling or Hou Hsiao Hsien kind, and then you have this formula embedded with a wryness coming from the likes of Aki Kaurismaki and Roy Andersson. Police Adjectiv falls somewhere in between.
Cannes 2009 Day 4: Audiard Gives Reason for a Need to Belong in ‘A Prophet’
The over two and a half hour prison drama demonstrates that there is a real war going on in on the inside which has a direct cause and effect on the outside world. The same theory can be switched around, as explored in Jacques Audiard's A Prophet, Cannes' first official buzz title for the Palme d'or.
Xavier Dolan
She hadn’t been a bad mother, but like every young adult or old teen, I needed to analyze and dig into my adolescent years to be able to peacefully embark on a new chapter of my life. In three days, I wrote the first draft of “I Killed My Mother”.
Cannes 2009 Day 5 Offerings: Amenabar, Villeneuve, Johnnie To
Un Certain Regard sees Mia Hansen-Løve returns to Cannes to present a family drama and Pavel Lounguine is also in the section with Tzar.
