Word: auteurs
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...Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Terry Gilliam) After Heath Ledger died last year while shooting this film, Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell stepped in to complete aspects of his role. Their gallantry and Ledger's enduring charisma aside, the film is a sodden botch from the mad-genius auteur of Brazil...
...Bill movies and Death Proof - Basterds draws portraits of strong women facing down evil men; and in Shoshanna (Mélanie Laurent) and Third Reich screen star Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) he's created two of his fullest female portraits. But Basterds is long and, for the hypercharged auteur, surprisingly wan. It has to be declared a misfire. (See pictures of the Cannes 2009 red carpet...
...Trier's longtime cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle (Oscar winner for Slumdog Millionaire), Antichrist was greeted at Sunday evening's critics' screening with some appreciative applause and rather more vigorous boos, and gave plenty of ammunition to both sides. Yet you can say something about the 53-year-old auteur that couldn't be applied to everyone with films in the competition: he's a real moviemaker, a composer of rich imagery as evocative as it is provocative, a master matador at waving a red cape in front of the most jaded viewers and getting them to charge...
...films. For the 1,500 international critics - yes, there still are that many left in a shrinking arts-news market - it's a giant screening room for hundreds of pictures, and a chance to get a jump on the rest of the world in discovering the hot new Romanian auteur. And for the celebrity hounds - the enormous paparazzi contingent and the locals who line the steps of the Festival's Grand Palais - Cannes offers the planet's strongest concentration of star quality. Except, perhaps, when Barack and Michelle Obama have a quiet dinner for two. (See pictures...
...France, the country that birthed the auteur theory, the real stars are the directors. Filmmakers who are not widely known in the States - Austria's Michael Haneke (The White Ribbon), Italy's Marco Bellocchio (Vincere), South Korea's Park Chan-wook (Thirst) and native son Alain Resnais (Wild Grass) - are considered masters here, and the prospect of a masterpiece from any one of them excites the cinemarati...