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VEE-EVENTS:
Cannes
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Every year, at the beginning of summer, Hollywood is transported
to a little town in the South of France. Locals are treated to such sights
as Tom Cruise doing his shopping, P Diddy sipping champagne on his gigantic
yacht or maybe even Halle Berry having a paddle in the surf. Yep, it's
the Cannes film festival – and this year VEE-TV was there!
The marina at Cannes
As well as the stars, more than 40,000 film
industry workers crowded into Cannes for this, the 58th festival. Every
year more than 2,200 films are submitted for consideration, but only 55
features and 40 short films make it into the festival program.
Film-makers hope to win its ultimate prize – the Palme d'Or. In
the past, winners of the award have included all-time greats such as Francis
Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver,
Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, and Carol Reed's The Third
Man.
The d'Or and the dog
This year the winner of the precious Palme d'Or was the Belgian drama
L'Enfant ('The Child'), the story of a young couple living in
poverty in France, directed by brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.
Israel's Hanna Laslo won Best Actress for her performance in Amos Gitai's
Free Zone, which imagines the Middle East without borders, and
Tommy Lee Jones won Best Actor for his performance in The Three Burials
of Melquiades Estrada, a western, which he also directed.
As usual, the media waited in breathless suspense to discover the winner
of the Palm Dog, the industry's biggest canine prize. After much debate,
the judges chose an unnamed black-and-white dog that starred in the movie
The Cave of the Yellow Dog, directed by Byambasuren Davaa. The
film's distributor, Wolfram Skowronnek Schaer, collected the prize in
the absence of the star. 'I hope the dog is still alive,' he said.
Find
out more
For details of subtitled film screenings around
the country, see Your
Local Cinema.
Cannes:
A Festival Virgin's Guide
A history of the festival, the festival structure, plus an FAQ section.
Festival
de Cannes
The official guide to the festival.
European
Films.net
Nice overview of the best of European films.
Internet
Movie Database
Definitive guide for any film buff.
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