The 66th annual festival opens this week, but Nymphomaniac misses cut after director Von Trier's 2011 'Nazi' gaffe
The 66th Cannes film festival opens on Wednesday with Gatsby as aperitif, Spielberg as jury president and many millionaires' yachts sharking in off the Med. On the face of it, all is well; the forecast is sunny. And yet there remains a puckish-shaped hole at the heart of the schedule. Cannes is missing its prodigal son.
Danish director Lars von Trier sparked the event's biggest recent controversy when he fatally misjudged the mood of a 2011 press conference – merrily joking that he was a Nazi who "sympathised with Hitler, a little bit". Spooked by the ensuing media storm, festival organisers declared him persona non grata and cast him out like Satan. He was last seen barrelling north from the Croisette inside his trusty camper van (he nurses an abiding fear of flying).
If he...
The 66th Cannes film festival opens on Wednesday with Gatsby as aperitif, Spielberg as jury president and many millionaires' yachts sharking in off the Med. On the face of it, all is well; the forecast is sunny. And yet there remains a puckish-shaped hole at the heart of the schedule. Cannes is missing its prodigal son.
Danish director Lars von Trier sparked the event's biggest recent controversy when he fatally misjudged the mood of a 2011 press conference – merrily joking that he was a Nazi who "sympathised with Hitler, a little bit". Spooked by the ensuing media storm, festival organisers declared him persona non grata and cast him out like Satan. He was last seen barrelling north from the Croisette inside his trusty camper van (he nurses an abiding fear of flying).
If he...
- 5/11/2013
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
The Cannes film festival kicks off next week, and this shot of Marilyn Monroe will feature on all its official posters. Does it matter that she never went?
She is a perennially fascinating screen actress, the incidental subject of new TV drama Smash – and from next week she will be pouting down at us from every street corner in Cannes, the face of the official film festival poster. The photograph shows the beautiful, beguiling, funny leading lady of such pictures as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Some Like It Hot blowing out the candle on her 30th birthday cake, giving a seductive air-kiss to the lens. In a press release, the festival organisers explain: "The poster captures Marilyn by surprise in an intimate moment where myth meets reality – a moving tribute to the anniversary of her passing, which coincides with the festival anniversary [Cannes turns 65 this year] … Their coming together symbolises the ideal of simplicity and elegance.
She is a perennially fascinating screen actress, the incidental subject of new TV drama Smash – and from next week she will be pouting down at us from every street corner in Cannes, the face of the official film festival poster. The photograph shows the beautiful, beguiling, funny leading lady of such pictures as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Some Like It Hot blowing out the candle on her 30th birthday cake, giving a seductive air-kiss to the lens. In a press release, the festival organisers explain: "The poster captures Marilyn by surprise in an intimate moment where myth meets reality – a moving tribute to the anniversary of her passing, which coincides with the festival anniversary [Cannes turns 65 this year] … Their coming together symbolises the ideal of simplicity and elegance.
- 5/9/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Jason Solomons picks his all-time favourite high jinks on the Croisette
Madonna presents her bra, 1991Few people have seized the Palais des Festivals red carpet moment more memorably than Madonna, when the documentary In Bed with Madonna premiered in an out-of-competition slot. Wreathed in a cloak, she reached the top of the steps and turned to reveal that underneath she was wearing a Jean-Paul Gaultier conical bra. In 2005, French actress Sophie Marceau topped this with an "unintentional" wardrobe malfunction that briefly revealed her left breast.
Cannes canned, 1968
Surely the most dramatic year for this drama queen of world festivals was 1968, during the student riots, strikes and general unrest that spread around France from Paris. It led to directors Godard, Truffaut, Louis Malle, Polanski, Lelouch and Milos Forman calling press conferences, withdrawing films and demanding a shutdown in sympathy with the students. After two days of sit-ins, the festival called a halt to proceedings.
Madonna presents her bra, 1991Few people have seized the Palais des Festivals red carpet moment more memorably than Madonna, when the documentary In Bed with Madonna premiered in an out-of-competition slot. Wreathed in a cloak, she reached the top of the steps and turned to reveal that underneath she was wearing a Jean-Paul Gaultier conical bra. In 2005, French actress Sophie Marceau topped this with an "unintentional" wardrobe malfunction that briefly revealed her left breast.
Cannes canned, 1968
Surely the most dramatic year for this drama queen of world festivals was 1968, during the student riots, strikes and general unrest that spread around France from Paris. It led to directors Godard, Truffaut, Louis Malle, Polanski, Lelouch and Milos Forman calling press conferences, withdrawing films and demanding a shutdown in sympathy with the students. After two days of sit-ins, the festival called a halt to proceedings.
- 5/1/2010
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
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