On the First Day of Cannes......
Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 1:15PM
It's Murtada reporting about Cannes, but sadly not from Cannes.
The main competition jury at Wednesday's photo call
The first day of Cannes always brings news of intriguing collaborations as projects are announced for the sidebar film market. Like Joaquin Phoenix working with Lynne Ramsay. Or Colin Farrell reteaming with The Lobster director Yorgos Lanthimos. Errr… Johnny Depp making another movie called The Libertine? With Brett Ratner? About Dominique Strauss-Kahn?? Run away, Marion!
However the two news items that got this reporter most excited are :
Isabelle Huppert in Elle
Sony Classics has acquired main competition entry Elle, directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Isabelle Huppert. You know the same company that got Cate Blanchett and Julianne Moore their best actress Oscars and Michael Haneke and Asghar Farhadi multiple nominations and foreign language wins recently. So our excitement knows no bounds. We are 9 days away from reviews and reactions to Elle - it screens on the last day of the festival - but we can rest easy knowing it will be coming our way this fall.
Captain Dad
If you’ve seen Sebastian Silva’s last outing Nasty Baby (2015), you know that he can provoke his audience and upend expectations. Well now he’s teaming with Will Ferrell and this is the logline (from Deadline):
Rich Peelman (Ferrell) gives his wife Linda (Catherine Keener) the gift of a lifetime for her birthday: a trip through the Caribbean on a sailboat with all six of their kids and their partners. Stubborn, competitive and overly confident in his sailing abilities that are clearly out of sync with reality, Rich is determined that the vacation be run on his terms. But things do not go according to plan. His “father knows best” attitude clashes with the rest of the Peelman clan. And by the end, even the most patient of the bunch are ready to throw Captain Dad overboard, bringing new meaning to the idea of the dysfunctional family.
Reader Comments (7)
Dunst in that dress is taking over my mind, body, and soul. Divinity!
Confirmation of what I already suspected, Sony Pictures Classics will distribute Elle (2016) as they did Verhoeven's last outing Black Book (2006). A first nomination for Huppert is certainly not off the table as was the case last year for Charlotte Rampling.
Elle is the movie I'm most excited to see in all of the world but I will honestly be kind of sad and disappointed if it doesn't offend EVERYONE at Cannes and get hissed at with the power of a thousand simultaneous furious hisses -- why the hell else would I want to watch a Verhoeven rape revenge movie starring an actress as take-no-prisoners as Huppert if it wasn't going to piss everybody off??? I think the worst possible outcome I can imagine when it screens is the door opening to a tasteful Oscars campaign.
I'm not going to say Valeria Golino is ageless, but HOT SHOTS! was 25 years ago, and she does not look 25 years older.
Kirsten Dunst, gorgeous. Valeria Golino, in her 50s? No way. She looks 40 or younger. Wow...
Vanessa Paradis.... ok, seriously. Why did Johnny Depp leave her? Fine, I'll go out with her. We'll listen to some Wham!
wow, Kirsten Dunst in that dress. Wonderful!
VERHOEVEN!!!!!!!!!!