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10 - Friday, 22 May
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| Scorsese receives Legion of Honor | |
| Martin Scorsese, jury president, was bestowed the Legion of Honor by the Minister of Culture Ms. Trautmann who said that Scorsese was among the filmmakers who had changed our traditional ways of viewing cinema. Scorsese responded by declaring his love for French culture, literature and cinema. |  |
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During the same ceremony, the Cinefondation, a section for student filmmakers new to the festival this year, awarded its prize for the best short film to Adam Guzinski (Poland) for his film Jakub. He will be assured a place in the official selection at the issue of his first feature film. The Statistics of the day As of the tenth day of the festival, more than 1000 film market badges had not been claimed by those who pre-paid. The grand mark of 5000 to register before the market closes may not be all that it is chalked up to be. Nonetheless, market activity has been strong, concluding one third of the world’s production. Air France has declared a strike to take effect Sunday and Monday. With
the weekend marking the end of the festival, the Formula One Grand Prix
and a national holiday weekend in France, getting out of Cannes
On the heels of those long nights in Cannes is the city maintenance personnel. On the average, they collect about 200 tons of garbage per day. In Town Jean Reno, French star of The Big Blue and Leon, is fairing well in his international career. In Cannes for his role as the hero in the closing film Godzilla, Reno is presently shooting Ronin by John Frankenheimer opposite Robert De Niro. His American collaborations continue to blosom as he has signed to play a policeman in Tripwire by American director Sydney Furie. Not in Town Sylvester Stalone finally decided to skip Cannes and went straight to the races in Monaco. He spent much time with Michael Schumacher (Ferrari) and Mika Hakkinen (McLaren-Mercedes) in preparation for the film he has in the works about the Formula One Grand Prix. |
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The films
The host of the 51st Cannes Festival, Isabelle Huppert, went up the Palais steps today for her leading role in the competition film l’Ecole de la Chair by Benoit Jacquot. |
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She just may host the closing ceremony and receive the Best Actress
award for her role (superb) as a mature woman who swallows up the youth
of a younger man. For Jacquot, this film based on the novel by Yukio
Mishima is his tenth feature film.
Velvet Goldmine by American Todd Haynes is largely inspired by singer David Bowie. Set mainly in London in the early 70s, when wild recklessness and self-absorption was 'in', Velvet Goldmine follows a reporter's investigation of the life and apparent death of glamrocker Brian Slade as he seeks to unravel the complicated relations of the star with his wife and others. Glam rock, a product of the early 70s, was something of a reaction to the previous decade of flower power and to a certain machismo which, in retrospect, was associated with it. It was a largely British phenomenon that just barely reached the US. Nevertheless, it took an American director to bring it to the screen. Tango by Carlos Saura was also shown today out of competition. This is the Spanish directors fifth film that explores a musical theme. Rather than present us with a beautifully-lensed overview, a la Sevillanas or Flamenco, this time we go – using one man's mid-life crisis as a vehicle – to the heart of what tango means, and the film makes the brain cells tap as much as the feet. A Spaniard making a film about tango in Argentina is like opening a computer store in Silicon Valley, but the film's reception there does not worry the director. |
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