Hey folks, Harry here with Solamen... Now I know you've been reading her reports from Cannes these last several days, but let me tell ya about this gal... First, in your mind picture a girl possessing the cutest aspects of Holly Hunter and Winona Ryder... Now imagine her moving at Hummingbird speeds... like when the Flash vibrates through a wall... Now imagine this girl being a complete movie fanatic that thinks the coolest thing in the world ever was going into a Hobbit Hole!!! That's right folks... She's the coolest gal imaginable! And here's what she thinks of today's adventures at Cannes... God I wish I could have seen Godard's latest...
Hi Harry !
Remember me ? Girl in the red dress, over excited, at the LOTR party.
I hope you had a nice journey coming back home and that it was not too hard
to leave this mere madness that the Cannes Festival is !
Edgard is gone on holiday for a week so he told me to send you the daily
reports. So here's today.
Cannes, day number 7.
I've never seen such a boring Cannes Festival. We're on day 7, the last film
will be screened on Saturday and this far we haven't seen the shadow of a
really interesting film in competition. Shrek was fine, No man's land was
fine too, Moulin-Rouge was... well, not that fine. So, everyone keep his
fingers crossed that things are going to move, quickly !
Today, three films in competition and two parties yesterday.
Film #1 : Il Mestiere delle armi, translated The art of war. The story takes
place in 1526, Italy. Protestant Germans try to invade Rome but they are
chased by a catholic commando, lead by Giovanni di Medici. The story is
mainly about honesty, faith ans the construction of modern world through the
importance taken by artillery weapons instead of sword fighting.
To make it short : long, slow and boring...
Film #2 : The Pledge, by Sean Penn. For those who didn't see it : a cop, on
the day he retires, opens a new case, a little girl savagely murdered. He
promises to the mother to find who did it and slowly falls into the
obsession of it. It begins as a great detective story but becomes a
disappointing reflection about irony of fate. Anyway, Sean Penn as a
director did a really great job and there may be chances that if the Coen
bros. don't have the Award for directing, Sean Penn will.
Film #3 : Eloge de l'Amour, by Jean-Luc Godard, translated Ode to Love. For
those who don't know Jean-Luc Godard, he's a famous french director of the
60's Nouvelle Vague. A lot of people reproach him to be an intellectualist
and not always clear film director. Actually, there are the ones who love
everything he does and the others... My opinion is that maybe, the Festival
could have easily chosen a much more interesting and younger french film
director.
To make it short : long, slow and boring... + you don't see the point of the
film. Those who think that what matters in a film are characters and plot
definitely must not go to see it !
Party #1 : Private Party, a supposed erotic and provoking party which
happened to be boring. We went on a boat for a tour to the Iles de Lerins,
the islands in front of Cannes. The boat was full of people, some disguised
in a S&M way, some star porns (well I was said so, because I didn't know them
at all !) and that's pretty much everything. So we came back to the port to
get others passengers we quickly left to the
Party #2 I don't remember which party but it was great anyway with good
food, good music, lot of people (french actress Beatrice Dalle especially)
and champagne of course !
But the Cannes Film Festival goer is like a long-distance runner so we went
to sleep rather soon after cause we still have a few days to watch films and
try to stay awake during them !
Solamen
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