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Cannes 2009 Day 2: Rumor Mill is a Plus in Mathias Gokalp’s Rien de Personnel
To put it simply, Rien de Personnel (the opening film for the 48th edition of the Critic's Week) is a sophisticated film that really only gets going in the final act, which is sort of the point of Mathias Gokalp and Nadine Lamari's screenplay.
Cannes 2009 Day 2: Tales From the Womb in Vera Egito’s Bond
Vera Egito comes to the Critic's Week section this year presenting not one, but two short films.
Cannes 2009 Producer’s Patch: Mandate Pictures
Mandate might not be a supplier of films for Cannes' competition, but they supply tons of stuff: not only for Lionsgate, but in Grant Heslov's debut The Men Who Stare at Goats, Drew Barrymore's roller derby film Whip It! and Tarsem's third feature film in the soon to be shooting War of Gods.
Cannes 2009 Day 2: Inflated Ideas for Kore-eda’s Romantic Fantasy Air Doll
I can see how Hirokazu Kore-eda's romantic fantasy might rub people off in the wrong way, we are used to an aesthetic and story-telling that borrows from the real and not from manga.
Cannes 2009 Day 2: Some Unfinished Business in Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro
Playing with the notion of unrealized potential, unfinished business and certainly draws upon Coppola's own family dynamic (his father was musically inclined and it becomes apparent that the son considered him a genius), Tetro could have passed off better as a shortened stage piece.
