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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!
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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