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...Cannes Festival, the Riviera showplace for art films and movie glamour, had a Hollywood accent this year as the host to world premieres of The Da Vinci Code and X-Men: The Last Stand. But its usual fare is provocative or perplexing films from top directors. Three of the attention-grabbing entries: Volver Pedro Almodóvar blends ghost story, revenge drama and all-girl comedy in a tale of courageous, if loco, sisterhood. Lovely Penélope Cruz and spectral Carmen Maura merit laurels, maybe Oscars...
Cannes is a convention city, which means the people coming for the world's largest movie conference, the Cannes Film Festival, are in their seats for the morning's major screening by 8:15. Cannes is also a Riviera resort, which means the town comes alive at night. Debonair folk in evening clothes stroll the Croisette until just before dawn. The discos (including the one directly under our hotel room) blast their pounding sounds nonstop to 3 or 4 a.m. (which may explain why the prose of this night owl is sometimes on the jagged side). Critics, who want...
...Cannes, a Riviera resort town just down the road from Nice and Monaco, was to have its first festival in September 1939. Germany's invasion of Poland cast a pall over Europe, and the festival was postponed until 1946, the year after the end of World War II. It took a break in 1947 and resumed the following year, now in May, now an annual event. (The 1968 edition was aborted midterm, in response to the Paris street revolts.) In its early days Cannes and Venice were the only major film festivals; now every town larger than Podunk...
...certain age (and we are) remember when Cannes moved at a more leisurely pace. After a couple of morning movies, one took a salade nicoise lunch at a beach restaurant, then rented a mattress and sunbathed for an indolent hour. The films then were part of a comprehensive Riviera experience: visiting the medieval town of St. Paul de Vence, seeing the Miro and Matisse works at the Maeght Museum, roller-coastering on Provence's precarious cornices. No time for that any more. Our schedules are busier than a big city mayor's. We are slaves to the five-film...
...play “Lady Windemere’s Fan.” The basic idea for the film sounds rather appealing—aging seductress Lady Erlynne (Helen Hunt, “As Good As It Gets”) makes her way down to the Italian Riviera and disrupts the marital bliss of the genteelly tedious Windemeres. Gossip, spying through binoculars, and mistaken identities ensue. It’s a big zany ride through 1930s British society, complete with doddering alcoholic Brits for comic relief. Unfortunately, it all ends up being rather ungainly. This harmless movie won?...