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. There was a slight change in the film’s official run-time, and in an interview I had with the filmmaker it was revealed that there has been some modifications made to the film – the kind that I didn’t notice. On a second viewing I cued more on how the filmmaker used his soundtrack of tunes, and the slow “tide” changes when the relationship between Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams’ characters sours. Here is premiere night for the film —