| MUMBAI:
33 of the world's renowned directors from 25 countries will
be making short films about what it is like to go to the movies
in the 60th year of the Cannes Film Festival. The organizers
have commissioned these directors to produces the shorts.
Festival director Gilles Jacob pointed out that directors
have been allotted three minutes each and given a theme: Moviegoing.
The shorts, will then be bundled into one film, and screened
on 20 May at the premier global film festival held in the
French Riviera. .
Jacob
revealed that among those who have been invited and commissioned
for the shots include: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel,
21 Grammes), the Coen Brothers (Fargo), Roman Polanski (The
Pianist), David Cronenberg (A History of Violence), Lars von
Trier (Breaking the Waves) and Wong Kar-wai (In the Mood for
Love).
The
Cannes film fest website says that: "In this particular
case, it was a matter of reuniting a group of creators - all
universally famous - who represent both their countries and
a proud conception of cinema, for a stroll around a unique
theme, springboard for their inspiration."
The
website says that none of the other filmmaker is aware of
what the other is doing or the plot of their shorts. It adds
that Wenders has so far filmed in the Congo, Tsai Ming Liang
in Kuala Lumpur and Cronenberg in the... toilets!
The website reveals they have all accepted "to discover
them at the same time as the festival-goers themselves, on
May 20th, as well as the general public, as it will be replayed
the very same evening on television on Canal Plus.
The
list of directors who have been invited is as follow:
Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion,
Youssef Chahine, Chen Kaige, Michael Cimino, Ethan & Joel
Coen, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Manoel
De Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Hou
Hsiao Hsien, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, Aki Kaurismaki,
Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude
Lelouch, Ken Loach, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raoul Ruiz,
Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Tsai Ming Liang, Gus Van Sant,
Lars Von Trier, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar Wai and Zhang Yimou.
Earlier
in January, the Festival had announced that Stephen Frears
director of the UK blockbuster The Queen would preside over
the Cannes Film jury. Frears has also been behind movies such
as My Beautiful Laundrette, Prick up Your Ears, Dangerous
Liaisons, Accidental Hero, The Grifters, The Snapper, High
Fidelity, and Dirty Pretty Things.
Additionally, the festival office had announced that super
model and actress (Helen of Troy) Diane Kruger would be be
the Master of Ceremonies for the 60th Festival de Cannes.
On 16 May she would be welcoming jury president Stephen Frears
onto the stage of the Palais des Festivals. She will also
host the closing ceremony, on Sunday 27 May, during which
the Awards will be announced.
She
succeeds in this role to Monica Bellucci, Laura Morante, Cécile
de France and Vincent Cassel.
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