Die My Love, Lynne Ramsay’s fifth film, ends with a familiar song sung by an unfamiliar voice: The director herself delivers a stripped-down version of Joy Division’s 1980 hit “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” Marital-breakdown songs are usually the stuff of country and western, but this stark post-punk anthem was written by Manchester’s Ian Curtis,…
In 1983, Jim McBride attempted an English-language remake of Jean-Luc Godard‘s 1959 cinema landmark, Breathless with Richard Gere. It broke one of Godard’s cardinal rules: It was in color. Although not as terrible an idea as Gus Van Sant’s disastrous shot-by-shot 1998 color remake of Hitchcock’s 1960 Psycho — which, like Godard’s forever-influential movie the…
Always makes me laugh when stars go to parties and then sequester themselves in roped-off VIP enclaves policed by grim-faced bouncers and eagle-eyed personal publicists. There was this odd sight of Element Pictures’ Ed Guiney leaning in from the outside to converse with Emma Stone seated inside the private zone at the afterparty for the Cannes…
Claes Bang returns to Cannes for the first time since his role as the compromised museum curator in Ruben Östlund’s 2017 Palme d’Or-winning art world satire The Square. The Danish actor, whose credits since have included Dracula, Bad Sisters and William Tell, is back with French director Stéphane Demoustier’s Un Certain Regard title The Great Arch about Danish architect Johan Otto von…
The Cannes Film Festival means many different things to many different people — from masterpiece movies to not-so-well-regarded ones, from glitz and glamour to sometime controversy. In the latter category, though not as hotly debated as say, the Palme d’Or winner, is the now de rigueur practice of timing standing ovations. What’s become a ritual, not only…