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Yeah, they are still the stars: Brad Pitt, for example, is expected no later than Wednesday. And Willem Dafoe will be on Monday, together director Lars von Trier now the shocker skandalumwobenen "Antichrist" imagine.
A few were already there but also, above all the charming film partners Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci, the "Ne Te Retourne Pas" - you are not turning around - by director Marina de Van play. The trio, which is on the red carpet in red robes presented, experienced at the time of their work, however, a complete disaster: The audience jaulte against terror, and even the French criticism, domestic productions like kindly treated, said it was an "illogical flop" .
Evening then celebrated ex-boss jury Ang Lee's return to Cannes, in the competition by his new movie "Taking Woodstock" presented a lovingly told story about the circumstances surrounding the legendary rock festivals, which in August 40 years ago in Bethel, in the U.S. State of New York, the culmination of the hippie movement marked. Lee's film, a truly vibrant comedy about his profound dramas of "Brokeback Mountain" and "Lust, Caution" is not the festival's musical highlights after, but describes the basis of the story of Elliot Tiber, like Woodstock after Bethel was and how it lasting impact on life there.
1969 Tiber tried desperately, and in the run-down guest deficiency suffering Hotel El Monaco "his stubborn Jewish immigrant parents back in full swing to bring. As chairman of the local industry chamber he sat at exactly the right place, at the festival organizer Michael Lang, who just returned from the adjacent Wallkill herauskomplimentiert was an event with permission only. The local dairy farmer Max Yasgur, he persuaded his country for the three day festival missions, to the ultimately more than half a million people from all over the country flocked.
"You have 500,000 this respect," said director Lee at the press conference in Cannes, "because there were indeed, as announced, three days full of peace and music. There was no violence, and I do not think such a thing still possible today would be. "
A discovery of the festival: Demetri Martin
Lee's admiration for the event, which he as a 14-year-olds in Taiwan has only seen media reports, durchwirkt every minute of the film, with the split-screen settings and grainy images of the famous documentary by Michael Wadleigh honor proves. Almost casually, and with a lot of sense for the comical moments of the clash of hippies relaxed with the conservative country dwellers Lee proves a historical moment of his reverence in which the word freedom was not a phrase, but could apply to everything on the sexual orientation, on the wearing of clothing - or to organize a free concert.
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Because in marijuana intoxication, so the movie tells it, the faselt - U.S. comedian Demetri Martin beautifully awkward-jammed embodied - Elliot, yes, finally, that music should be free also, just like everything else. To slight detuning of the really keen on commercial success Heads Festival held his small Freiheitssermon even before the assembled press, so that Woodstock only thanks to a rush for the most drug-free and-out spectacle of all time. At least according to this legend.
Stand-up comedian Demetri Martin is a further discovery of the festival. As Elliot Tiber aka mountain pond he is in "Taking Woodstock" his own personal liberation, not only his first acid trip, but beyond his homosexual coming-out has. Martin, a mixture of optically young Dustin Hoffman and Adam Sandler plays the role of his innocence from the land with the proper restraint and very pleasant Laconia.
So Who needs big stars on the Croisette, where he introduced new talents like Demetri Martin, Katie Jarvis ( "Fish Tank") or Tahar Rahim during their first attempts in the spotlight may be experiencing? Well, not that Miss Jarvis was able to travel to Cannes, still weighs heavily, but, as Martin and the Maghreb Rahim actor at the weekend to draw attention to their good performance on the big screen enjoyed, it was heart warming.
Tahar Rahim Convinced prison as King
Rahim plays the main role in the new film by French filmmaker Jacques Audiard, in "Un prophets" the story of an illiterate street boy told the prison to a large number will be gangster. Sounds not only once more exciting, because prison dramas are plentiful, but Audiard creates it, mainly thanks Tahar Rahim, who in almost every scene, is an atmospheric density to generate the audience much as 150 minutes long and captures next to a single fate of even the French authorities of corruption and decline of the classic mafia in favor of a global Muslim community anmahnt gangsters.
The young Malik, the first denomination to belong not feel and do not even read and write can learn to start his six-year prison soon, with whom it is better not invest. The prison is managed by a group of Corsican Mobster controls whose weißhaariger Boss Luciani (Niels Arestrup) the young Arabs for a murder contract hires. In return, the new inmate to the protection of the Corsicans enjoy. Malik tries to get by the Corsicans method to teach pre-murder - is somehow a razor blade hidden in the mouth. What ends so that it now only eat yogurt. There are such details, which develop a force, as even a quick cut prison-action à la "Prison Break" does not develop.
Audiard is time for the development of its main character, shows how ridiculous Malik from lapdog to Lucianis and brutal self mausert player to read and teaches business processes - and ultimately all, Corsicans, Italians and Arabs against each ausspielt. Who does not care about what happens in its prisons, it must not be surprised if they ever larger monsters hervorkriechen, this implicit message of the film there was the highest so far applause and cheering in the press screening - home or not.
With Lee and Audiard films are so different that they may be, has the competition in Cannes correct momentum. A real disappointment was not there yet, even in the past year because of his brutal kakophonen and loud street noises in "Serbis" so hated Filipino Brillante Mendoza showed in his new film "Kinatay" formally quite civilized.
The story, however, is as ruthless as much this year in Cannes: shows how thoroughly corrupt police in Manila, a young girl mercilessly hacked and distributed components along the roadside.
Ang Lee was right: in Woodstock would be such a thing does not happen.
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