Cannes Film Festival Archives

Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears Talks ‘Pillion’ Acting Debut & “Shocking” NSFW Sex Scene With Alexander Skarsgård: “My Jaw Was On The Floor”

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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details about Pillion. As Jake Shears was recently between stops in Glasgow and Bournemouth on a UK/Ireland arena tour, moviegoers were watching his titillating onscreen debut in the South of France. Deadline caught up with the Scissor Sisters frontman following the Cannes premiere of Pillion, writer-director Harry Lighton‘s feature debut…

What Does The Cannes Film Festival Have Against Documentaries?

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Cannes Film Festival chief Thierry Frémaux entered the room with a martial bearing, his square jaw tilted upwards in the manner of a man who need not doubt his significance. He came to the Salon des Ambassadeurs within the Palais to make a few remarks before the awarding of the annual l’Oeil d’or (Golden Eye)…

Breaking Baz @ Cannes: “Even if I’m Fired, I Stay,” Declares Defiant Thierry Frémaux; Festival Victors Dance The Night Away After Strongest Selection In Years

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Thierry Frémaux, the Delegate Général of the Cannes Film Festival, is propping up the Majestic Beach’s main bar. The joint’s buzzing, the victors being lionized after what has been acknowledged as a strong competition and selection, and I have the temerity to wonder idly when he’ll retire. “I don’t know,” he murmurs. “You know, in…

Cannes Winners Are Again Good For Neon But Create Confusing Picture For Oscar Race – Which Films Could Place In Both?

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For many years most in the industry have looked to the Fall Trifect of Venice, Telluride, and Toronto as the real start of Oscar season, but recent years, and with two Palme d’Or winners going on to also be Best Picture winners the “start” of the season has to be redefined. It really now starts…

‘Imago’ Director Déni Oumar Pitsaev On Winning Two Prizes In Cannes: “I Didn’t Expect It At All”

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When Chechen-born filmmaker Déni Oumar Pitsaev came to Cannes with his new documentary Imago, he felt very uncertain about how it would be received. After all, it’s a personal story and it’s set in a place far from the experience of most people – a remote enclave in a corner of Georgia called Pankissi, very…

‘Young Mothers’ Review: An Expert And Soulful Exploration Of Teenage Motherhood From Belgium’s Dardenne Brothers – Cannes Film Festival

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For nearly 50 years, the Dardenne brothers have been faithfully hoeing the same cinematic row; Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne make films filled entirely with the kinds of people who generally pass beneath notice: people who struggle to manage their lives, who battle addictions, who are born poor and are likely to die poor. They make these…