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...Almost any other film festival is more conducive to concentrating on the rarified art of cinema. But to resent the banquet of self-promotion and razzmatazz that is Cannes is to miss one big reason people, even critics, go to the movies. At this fabulous buffet, the films are the canapés. Are they tasty? Nutritious? Amid all of Cannes' other enticements-the good food, fine wines, gorgeous people-one is tempted to ask: Who cares? But the 12-day bash, which ends Sunday, has had some lovely tidbits-a wide range of art films with pizzazz, genre pieces...
...voices in the film's original French version are provided by Mastroianni, Deneuve and that goddess of 30s and 40s French cinema, Danielle Darrieux (as the grandmother). Other celebrities will voice the characters when Persepolis opens in the U.S. The reception is likely to be warm there - but will Satrapi ever experience anything like the epiphany of that first response to her film, one afternoon in Cannes...
...visual rhapsody, attentive to every nuance in the spectacular land and foliage around the family home, following the lives within as meticulously as it traces the dramatic changes in weather - from clear day to torrential showers - in one of the longest, most intricate and beautiful tracking shots in cinema...
...overlooked one of cinema's most menacing villains: Sir Ben Kingsley. (Who would think it?) His character in Sexy Beast (2000) scares even the film's other villains. His last line is composed of not words but an unforgettable, goose-bump-producing, maniacal laugh. Hear it once, and you won't forget. Terry Lorbiecki, Milwaukee...
...surprise, then, that his first U.S. feature should present two mid-length stories framed by a third. And in tribute to Hollywood cinema, My Blueberry Nights is not confined to a neighborhood (as Chungking Express and Fallen Angels were), or a single hotel (as in In the Mood for Love and 2046). This is a road movie, which begins in Venice, Cal., then flashes back to and ends in New York City, with long detours to Memphis and Nevada. It's an itinerary any foreign filmmaker fascinated with with America would choose to illustrate the country's scope and variety...