Cristian Mungiu‘s fjordstarring Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan as Romanian spiritual dad and mom who relocate to a small Norwegian village and discover themselves accused of kid abuse, has received the Palme d’Or on the 79th Cannes Film Festival — the Romanian director’s English-language debut. With the win, Mungiu joins Cannes’ elite two-timer membership, following…
Cristian Mungiu’s complicated ethical drama “Fjord,” starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve, has received the Palme d’Or for finest movie at the Cannes Film Festivalmaking the Romanian writer-director the tenth filmmaker to win the coveted award twice — 19 years after his first victory for “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.” Exiled Russian director…
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was again on the pink carpet making her first look on the Cannes Film Festival for the Histoires De La Nuit premiere. Mike Marsland/WireImage Some of us will always remember the Indian actress’ outings in Falguni Shane Peacock for the Megalopolis and Kinds Of Kindness premieres in 2024, earlier than she pivoted…
by Elisa Giudici Cate Blanchett. Photo © Elisa Giudici Cate Blanchett got here to Cannes ostensibly to highlight the Displacement Film Fund, the initiative she co-based with the UNHCR to assist displaced filmmakers and tales about pressured migration. But the dialog shortly expanded into one thing broader: a pointy, humorous, deeply considerate reflection on appearing,…
Steven Soderbergh first got here to the Cannes Film Festival in 1989 along with his debut narrative characteristic, Sex, Lies, and Videotape. At 26 years previous, he grew to become the youngest solo director to win the Palme d’Or. “How little we expected,” he says. “We slipped into the competition because of another film dropping…
The competitors lineup at this yr’s Cannes Film Festival has been awfully sedated to this point, characterised largely by misfires like Asghar Farhadi’s “Parallel Tales” and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Sheep in the Box.” Even the 2 best-received Palme d’Or contenders really feel a bit acquainted: The “Drive My Car” director Ryusuke Hamaguchi has made one other…
Miles Teller have you ever been in Cannes selling his star flip in James Gray’s competition title Paper Tigerhowever the star continues to be shy about press junkets after a September 2015 Esquire journal profile. “That was so mishandled,” Teller tells IndieWire concerning the fallout from the quilt story with a gap line that reads:…
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Originally appeared on AND! On-line John Travolta is revealing the outstanding imaginative and prescient behind his Cannes Film Festival look. After the Phenomenon star stepped out at the prestigious screening event donning a new lookwhich included a beret and round eyeglasses, I shared what impressed the now-viral ensemble. “I’ve been around for over 50 years…
Monday evening belonged to Nicolas Winding Refn at Cannes and although his trippy psychedelic feminine ensemble pic, Her Private Hell, is enjoying out of competitors, it spiced up the Grand Theater Lumiere with a 12-minute standing ovation, the second such of the night after fjord. Those are the longest plaudits of the pageant, although Refn…
