May 21, 2008

Cannes, 5/21.

Cannes "Watching a stolid horde of blue-clad factory workers trudge obediently up an institutional staircase in Jia Zhangke's 24 City as though to the next movie, the colleague beside me murmured: 'It's Cannes!'" A roundup from J Hoberman in the Voice: "Midway through the madness, it's been a good but not yet great festival."

"Screening at the Cannes sales market on Thursday and Friday, Nick Nolte: No Exit is an almost existential documentary, part self-celebratory profile, part surreal question-and-answer session," writes John Horn in the Los Angeles Times. "While the film does include a range of friends and collaborators talking about the Affliction and Prince of Tides star's acting - Ben Stiller and Jacqueline Bisset among them - its center focuses on Nolte asking himself (and usually answering) his own queries."

"Though this has been a good festival, with some tremendous films, the emphasis has been on tragedy and unrelenting grimness," and the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw wonders why.

Xan Brooks and Mary Corliss, blogging for the Guardian and Time respectively, catch up with Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired.

"[Josh] Safdie's work reflects a certain youthful ingenuity, and a great example of the way a low budget can actually enhance the final product." At Stream, Eric Kohn tells the story behind The Pleasure of Being Robbed, closing this year's Directors' Fortnight.

Coverage of the coverage: Cannes 08.

Last year: Cannes @ 60. And Cannes 06.



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Posted by dwhudson at May 21, 2008 3:49 PM