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9 - Thursday, 21 May
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| Sharon Stone Under the Spotlight | |
| The Godzilla party preceded the screening of the film and all its state-of-the-art special effects, set to close the festival. The party invitation read “Come party like the animal you are.” |  |
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Packed as usual, but under par as excitement goes: no live music only DJs, T-shirts and nothing more for the souvenirs, crepes for the food fare and the only indication that one was in monster territory was a bit of scaly decoration. In Town Sharon Stone was seen in two places today.The 40-year old actress had a small role in the out of competition film The Mighty and wore a dress with a low-drooping back gaining lots of camera appeal. On the other side of town she was hosting the AIDS charity dinner where she shed a tear when her presentation speech touched upon the loss of her dramatic arts professor 5 years ago to AIDS. It was concluded by a hot little number with Elton John at the piano, Ringo Starr on drum and Sharon Stone doing a sexy dance interpretation. Boy George was seen on the Croisette. Recently in the UK news with the publication of his autobiography, his appearance in Cannes was to announce the up and coming film…based on his book and entitled Take it Like a Man! Mick Jagger also made an incognito visit to Cannes to take care of a few details concerning a film he is producing under the film company Jagged. The Results The scoop on the Hot d’Or awards: the event was a bit staid even if some tried to pick up the pace by throwing panties into the crowd. Linda Sinclair won the Grand Prize for her role in “The Nights of the Lady President”. French rappers provided the music: Doc Gyneco, Passi, Stomy Bugsy. The Prix de la Bande-Annonce (Trailer Awards) awarded the Grand Prize to On Connait la Chanson (That Same Old Song) by Alain Resnais. Three other prizes went to Seven Years in Tibet by Annaud, La Souris (The Mouse) by Verbinski and Taxi by Pires. |
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Evangelists come under the spotlight in The Apostle. |
The Films
Apparently, 75 gospel singers performed at Planet Hollywood promoting the Certain Regard screening of The Apostle by Robert Duvall. Duvall, raised in a southern religious family, says this film is his personal look at faith. Not only did he write, direct and star in this semi-documentary shot in Lafayette, Louisiana, but he also produced and financed the 30 million dollar film, as well as stuck his nose into many a Pentecostal church in preparation. |
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One could say that John Turturro came out in Cannes. Best Actor award for his performance in Barton Fink (1991) and a Camera d’Or, which awards the best first-film in any category, for Mac in 1992. Back this time with the Illuminata, intended to be an erotic farce within a theatre company in N.Y. at the turn of the century. The film stars Turturro, Christopher Walken and Susan Sarandon, as well as his wife Katherine Borowitz. In fact, all the actors in the film have done stage acting. Turturro’s next project will be a stage play either by Pinter or Beckett. The only Russian film in competition, Khrustalyov, My Car! by Alexei
Gherman, is a black and white burlesque look at post-Stalinism in the mid-1950’s.Gherman
claims that it is necessary to create references to Stalin in order to
understand today. He admires Fellini and would only hope to match his mastership.
Gherman has only four films to his credit, two of which were banned and
one buried deep in Soviet vaults for 15 years.
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