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No matter who you are or where you come from, the Cannes Film Festival provides an interesting experience. Your daily schedule here is hardly what you can call a routine: it’s not something that you can plan, no matter how well-organized you are. The movies you see are also surprises, good or bad. And then there are of course the people, themselves potential film characters.
As a screenwriting student I must say that over the last week and a half I must have recharged my batteries enough to be able to handle quite a few future writer’s blocks. I couldn’t help but be a voyeur, fantasizing about what kind of movies I would make about the people and events here. How about an absurd comedy on how people always get in the wrong queue accidentally (or) on purpose? A melodrama would perhaps be suitable to capture the destinies of those left out when the screening room is full.
People’s anger in situations like these or when pushing and pulling each other to get in the midnight bus could be the innocuous beginning of a thriller. Once on the bus the chronicles of happenings, events, parties and so on keep pouring out in an international soundtrack that you can’t help but overhear. It’s never certain anyway which stories are true, so why not take the fiction further from there?
Last but not least, each of us curious characters around here could be the subject for a love story, which doesn’t necessarily have to end happily. I myself fell in love with certain films and experienced disappointment with others. And this town as a whole can take you in its passionate embrace or simply reject you, leaving you with a broken heart.
By Mirona Nicola
As a screenwriting student I must say that over the last week and a half I must have recharged my batteries enough to be able to handle quite a few future writer’s blocks. I couldn’t help but be a voyeur, fantasizing about what kind of movies I would make about the people and events here. How about an absurd comedy on how people always get in the wrong queue accidentally (or) on purpose? A melodrama would perhaps be suitable to capture the destinies of those left out when the screening room is full.
People’s anger in situations like these or when pushing and pulling each other to get in the midnight bus could be the innocuous beginning of a thriller. Once on the bus the chronicles of happenings, events, parties and so on keep pouring out in an international soundtrack that you can’t help but overhear. It’s never certain anyway which stories are true, so why not take the fiction further from there?
Last but not least, each of us curious characters around here could be the subject for a love story, which doesn’t necessarily have to end happily. I myself fell in love with certain films and experienced disappointment with others. And this town as a whole can take you in its passionate embrace or simply reject you, leaving you with a broken heart.
By Mirona Nicola
Review
Uncle Boonmee who can Recall his Past Lives by Apichatpong Weerasethakul - Winner Palm d’Or - Thailand
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This is not going to be a sensationalist text about how mysticism + zoophilia + politics = Palme d’Or. Nor is it some cheap joke about a complicated name. When we are faced with multiple lives of the same man, on the same screen, within the same film, this is not a story which can be told in a hurry. Whilst usually emotion gives way to reason and most contemporary art forms want to (...) [Read more] |
Interview
Daniel and Diego Vega - Peru
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October is "purple month" in Lima. It’s the colour of the habits worn by thousands of people during the biggest religious procession, adoring the image of the "Lord of Miracles". In the Vega brothers’ first feature Octubre, a moneylender, his newborn son from relations with a prostitute and a devout mature single woman from the neighbourhood see new emotional attachments grow during this special period.
How did you come up with the story presented in Octubre?
Diego: It’s quite difficult to explain [...] it was a long way and the only thing that remains from the original story is a bill (a fake bill, like in Bresson’s film) which doesn’t really "travel" so much. We wrote 10 versions of the script so the (...) [Read more] |
Video
Interview with Philip Koch
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| "In Germany you can make a children’s film, family entertainment, big historical films or a TV movie" says Philip Koch. And yet the 27-year-old German filmmaker has succeeded in creating something entirely different... [Read more] |
In focus
Takeshi Kitano, ’Outrage’ and the Yakuza: the Way of the Chopped Finger
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| When it happens, meeting a myth is always too short, too mysterious and too unrealistic to catch what is inside the mind of the master. You are left with even more questions, because no secrets are revealed. It’s the moment that matters, the infinitely tiny moment when two universes collide: the (...) [Read more] |
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