Cannes. Quand j'etais Chanteur.

"It probably won't happen this way, but wouldn't everyone be pleased if Gérard Depardieu won the best actor award at Cannes this year," writes Roger Ebert. "Depardieu received a tumultuous ovation Friday as the star of Quand j'etais Chanteur, or The Singer.... The film, directed by Xavier Giannoli, is sentimental but not soppy, showing the singer as a specialist in romantic ballads at mixers for middle-aged single people 'afraid of discos.'"

"It's got a lot going for it," offers Glenn Kenny for Premiere. "Depardieu gives an engaging and intelligent performance... and the world his character inhabits is worth visiting and examining. Still, early on in the picture I found myself praying to the cinema gods, 'Please, don't let this turn into Limelight,' and the film did not... but it concluded on a pretty unsatisfying note nonetheless."

Cineuropa's Fabien Lemercier interviews Depardieu.

Posted by dwhudson at May 28, 2006 6:28 AM