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Trying to catch it all at Cannes
The Nice airport is jam-packed, the crowds are already strolling the Croisette, hundreds of journalists are lining up for credentials outside the Palais, and the Cannes Film Festival is getting ready to kick off Wednesday.
The screening schedule is always withheld from journalists until you get here, and it always causes a few moans.
Some of the most highly regarded flicks will be screening at 8:30 a.m. They include Clint Eastwood’s “Changeling” and “Linha De Passe” from Walter Salles.
Then there are the inevitable conflicts. You can’t see Atom Egoyan’s “Adoration” without missing the press conference for Steven Soderbergh’s “Che.”
But that’s par for the course in Cannes. Too may films, too little time. “Wendy and Lucy,” the Kelly Reichardt flick that did well at South by Southwest, screens in the Un Certain Regard program at 10 p.m. Thursday, May 22.
But it’s going up against Paolo Sorrentino’s “Il Divo,” a controversial look at the Italian reign of Giulio Andreotti. But it will be possible to catch an earlier screening of the Sorrentino flick, if people are so inclined.
Overall, the lineup looks good, with lots of Brazilian and Mexican movies, plus the usual French suspects.
The festival kicks off Wednesday with Brazilian Fernando Meirelles’ “Blindness,” followed by Israeli director Ari Folman’s “Waltz With Bashir.” Then the festival takes an early turn toward Hollywood-style comic relief with the Thursday screening of the animated “Kung Fu Panda.”
Stay tuned for updates Wednesday.
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By Matt Dentler
May 14, 2008 12:25 AM | Link to this
As much as I’m sure we’d love to take the credit, Kelly’s new film “Wendy and Lucy” did not screen at SXSW. “The Pleasure of Being Robbed,” however, did premiere at SXSW and will screen at Cannes in the Directors Fortnight section.