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| Leading man John Brumpton carried his co-star, a gold-gowned Heather
Rose, in his arms up the red-carpeted stairs of the Palais des Festivals
to her wheelchair at the top, in a moving precursor to the Competition
screening of Rolf de Heer's Dance Me To My Song on Friday afternoon.
The audience gave the film a standing ovation that lasted 10 minutes and when Heather Rose blew them a silent kiss, emotions overflowed. One audience member was so moved she said she was in shock and had to go and compose herself. |
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| Rose, who suffers from cerebral palsy, conceived and co-wrote
the film, a love triangle in which a woman with cerebral palsy competes
with her carer for a man's affection. ALU
***** Surrealism flowers on the Croisette Pampline directors and acclaimed Spanish stand-up comics Faemino, Jurdao
& Blanco are in Cannes to promote the unlikely Do You Really Wanna
Know?, which has to be seen to be
You may be wondering by now what a pampline is. "We really don't know. But 90-minute film stories have their days numbered," said Faemino."The trailer of Titanic is far better than the film. It's shorter at least. It should have lasted three minutes," said Javier. Putting their wallet where their heart is, Faemino, Jurdao & Blanco have directed the five-minute Do You Really Wanna Know? Made with the help of high-tech digital post-production, it is the first in a projected series of pamplines – five-minute comic and bizarre films in the tradition of Un chien andalou and Terry Gilliam. Each pampline begins with two people bumping into each other in the
street. An apparently innocent detail (such as a mysterious stain on a
shoe) prompts one of the people to launch
Based out of the Marketplace Media Programme Stands at the Market International
du Film, Faemino, Jurdao & Blanco aim to find buyers for the pilot
pampline and for a projected
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