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CLAIM TO FAME AN ACCOMPLISHED PIANIST, NATORI ONCE RENTED CARNEGIE HALL TO PERFORM A CONCERT...
...change membership 100% every year, so you can't go by past winners. Finally, it doesn't help much to imagine which of the competing films the jury president would like best. In 2002, when David Lynch was president, the winning film was Roman Polanski's very traditional The Pianist. Last year, ultra-hip auteur Wong Kar Wai gave the Palme d'Or to Ken Loach's political epic The Wind That Shakes the Barley. Go figure...
...rapturous. Will the Jury be as enthusiastic? As we said, there are pointers to be taken from past Cannes awards. But do note that the film's screenwriter, Ronald Harwood, also wrote another true-life story of egregious suffering and improbable triumph: the Palme d'Or winner The Pianist...
...other concert, any other pianist, and Rimsky-Korsakov's interlude would have been cut from the playlist. But not tonight. Because Paravicini has a musical memory that's closer to hard drive than human: he can play virtually any tune, in any style, in any key, after hearing it just once, even if it was years ago. The 27-year-old pianist is blind and severely learning disabled; he can't tie his own shoelaces or butter a piece of bread. Yet his musical gifts appear almost unlimited. With rehearsals over, Paravicini and his longtime teacher Adam Ockelford go into...
...compendium filmmaking - multiple characters and multiple stories. Paris, Je T'Aime may be the grandest such work currently on view, but it is not the only one. You may recall the recent Avenue Montaigne, in which a young waitress finds herself mixed up with an insecure actress, a great pianist withdrawing from performing and an art collector selling his collection. It has a chipper spirit, and, in the end, things work out all right for all concerned, yet it also carries with it an air of regret, a sense that life is harder, less rewarding than its many characters would...