The tree of life wins Best Film at the Festival de Cannes

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The Director of best film at the Cannes Festival was not there to collect his prize. But it is not because Lars von Trier won. Instead, it is the famous publicity-shy Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life which took the Palme d'Or.

The Associated Press reports that the producers of the award-winning film, which stars Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jane Chastain and opens its doors Friday, the United States, accepted the award instead.

Lars von Trier is "persona non grata" at the Cannes Festival

Kirsten Dunst, who was sitting next to von Trier made comments which prohibits him from the film festival, won the award for best actress for her performance in his film of melancholy.

Dunst "Wow, what a week," said, according to the AP. She thanked the organizers of the festival to maintain von Trier film, in the competition despite his remarks, adding: "I want to thank Lars for giving me the opportunity to be so brave."

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The winner of the award for best actor, chosen by the jury presided by Robert De Niro, was Jean Dujardin, which plays in the silent film The Artist.

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Director Terrence malickof tree of life won top honor Sunday Cannes Film Festival: Palme d'Or award. Pitt, 47, played in the film alongside Sean penn and Jessica Chastain. Tree of life has caused reactions mixed viewers; He was alternately cheered and booed in his first Cannes.

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Actress Kirsten dunst, 29, won best actress for her role in melancholy. Melancholia was directed by Lars von Trier, who was banned from Cannes week last for his Nazi comments.

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The French actor Jean dujardin has won the award for best actor for his role in the silent film The Artist, while Nicolas winding refn was honored as best Director for his film Drive.

Prizes were awarded by the jury of nine members, led by Robert De niro. The Committee also included actors uma thurman and Jude Law.

Winners of the prize of the Festival de Cannes

CANNES, France - awards presented at the 64th Festival de Cannes, selected by a jury chaired by American actor Robert De Niro. :

_Palme gold (Palme d'Or): "the tree of life" of Terrence Malick (United States)

_Grand price: shared between "The Kid with the bike" by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Belgium) and "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia" of Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey)

_Jury Prize: "Poliss" by Ma?wenn (France)

_Best Director: Nicolas Winding Refn for "Drive" (Denmark)

_Best actor: Jean Dujardin, "The artist" (France)

_Best actress: Kirsten Dunst, "Melancholy" (from the United States film, the Denmark, actress)

_Best scenario: Joseph Cedar, "Reference" (Israel)

_Camera gold (Director): "Las Acacias" by Pablo Giorgelli (Argentina)

_Best short film: "Country" by Maryna Vroda (Ukraine)

"Tree of life" by the Malick wins top Cannes honor fest

CANNES, France - expansive drama of the American Director Terrence Malick "the tree of life" won the top honor at the Cannes Festival, Sunday, while Kirsten Dunst won the award for best actress for the apocalyptic saga "Melancholy."

The price of gold was accepted Sunday by two producers of "Tree of life", Dede Gardner and Bill Pohlad, for the press-shy notoriously Malick, who jumped all public events at the prestigious Cannes film festival.

"I know it would be very pleased with this," Pohlad said.

"Why is he here?". I do not say that it is a question easy to answer, but he is personally a very humble guy and a very shy guy, "Pohlad said after the award of the prize. "It is just very sincerely work to speak for itself."

Gardner said when he came to the prospect of a Cannes Award, Malick had been "very mild." "He said:"if we were lucky that, I would like to thank my parents and my wife Becky"."

"The tree of life," which opens Friday at United States, stars Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain in a history distant family life which is played against a cosmic background, including the Visual glorious of the creation of the universe and the age of the dinosaurs.

Dunst won for his role in the history of the end of the world "Melancholy", whose Director, Lars von Trier's Denmark, was banned at the Festival after remarks sympathetic to Adolf Hitler at a press conference.

"Wow, what a week it was," said Dunst, who plays a deeply depressed woman coping with manies family as a rogue planet is down on a possible collision with the Earth course.

"It is an honour which is a unique thing for an actress," said Dunst, who thanked the organizers of the festival to allow "Melancholy" to remain in the competition after remarks Nazi von Trier and offered warm words for its Director. "I want to thank Lars for giving me the opportunity to be so brave."

Von Trier was not allowed to attend the ceremony on Sunday.

Jean Dujardin claimed the award for best actor for the silent film "The artist", in which he plays a star of Hollywood of the 1920s whose career crumbles as talking images become the standard. In keeping with his singing, nature Lookout, Dujardin was a little tap when he came to the stage of Cannes.

Dujardin said that he wanted to share his prize with partner Bérénice Bejo, got up and blew kisses him on the stage. The film was directed by the husband of Bejo, French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius, who has made Dujardin in "oss 117" parodies of espionage.

"I hope to make other silent films with you," Dujardin said Hazanavicius.

Several well received films, among them Spanish thriller of horror film director Pedro Almodovar "The skin I Live In" and "We need to talk about Kevin by British filmmaker Lynne Ramsay" go home empty-handed.

Malick, who made that five films in a career of almost 40 years, previously won the lead in 1979 for "Days of Heaven" on his last trip to Cannes. "The tree of life" was shot three years ago and the festival organizers had hoped premiere at Cannes last year, but he was not ready in time.

Prizes were awarded by a jury of nine members, led by Robert De Niro, which included actors Uma Thurman and Jude Law.

"The tree of life" is the first American film to win top honors at the Cannes Film Festival since back-to-back recipient in 2003 (Gus Van Sant "elephant") and 2004 (Michael Moore "Fahrenheit 9/11").

Niro said reporters choosing the top winner was difficult because of the extent and the "great qualities" among the 20 competing titles, but that "the tree of life" fit the Bill in the end.

"He had the size, importance, intention, everything you want to call, which seemed to adjust the price," says of Niro. "" "". Most of us felt that the movie was fantastic. ?

Second place grand prize was shared by brothers Belgian Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, twice winners of the Palme d'Or, for their youth troubled drama "The Kid with a bike" and the Turkish Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan for his meditative saga "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia."

The jury of the third place prize went to the drama of the French actress-turned-Director Ma?wenn child protection "Polish."

Despite a reception pices of criticism, "Melancholy von sort" found favour with Cannes jurors.

"As I am concerned, it is one of the best films." "I think it's a great film", the French Director Olivier Assayas, a juror said.

Von Trier has caused a storm of fire at the film press conference when he delivered remarks rambling on its German heritage in which he said he understood and sympathize with Hitler.

He also made the taunts on the Jews, comments that brought condemnation of Jews and the Holocaust groups and prompted organizers of Cannes to boot him, a sanction without precedent for a filmmaker who won the Palme d'Or in 2000 with "Dancer in the Dark".

Another Danish filmmaker, Nicolas Winding Refn, won price lead to "Drive," its thriller of action featuring Ryan Gosling as an in a hold-up poorly turned Hollywood stunt driver. Refn gushes thanks for Gosling, which allowed producers to choose which Director he wanted.

"He really wanted to make the film and he really wanted to do with me," said Refn.

The award for best screenplay went to Israeli filmmaker Joseph Cedar for "Reference", his account of Talmudic University rivals father and son.

Cannes Film Festival award winners

 64Th Festival de Cannes Awards, selected by a jury chaired by American actor Robert De Niro. :

-The Palme d'Or of the (Palme d'Or): "the tree of life" of Terrence Malick (United States)

-Grand prize: shared between "The Kid with the bike" by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Belgium) and "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia" of Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey)

-Jury prize: "Poliss" by Ma?wenn (France)

-Best Director: Nicolas Winding Refn for "Drive" (Denmark)

-Best actor: Jean Dujardin, "The artist" (France)

-Best actress: Kirsten Dunst, "Melancholy" (from the United States film, the Denmark, actress)

-Best screenplay: Joseph Cedar, "Reference" (Israel)

-Camera (Director) Gold: "Las Acacias" by Pablo Giorgelli (Argentina)

-Best short film: "Country" by Maryna Vroda (Ukraine)

"Tree of life" by the Malick WINS Cannes top honour

Expansive drama of the American Director Terrence Malick "the tree of life" won the top honor at the Cannes Festival, Sunday, while Kirsten Dunst won the award for best actress for the saga apocalyptic "melancholy."

The price of gold was accepted Sunday by two producers of "Tree of life", Dede Gardner and Bill Pohlad, for the press-shy notoriously Malick, who jumped all public events at the prestigious Cannes film festival.

"I know it would be very pleased with this," Pohlad said.

"Why is he here?". I do not say that it is a question easy to answer, but he is personally a very humble guy and a very shy guy, "Pohlad said after the award of the prize. "It is just very sincerely work to speak for itself."

Gardner said when he came to the prospect of a Cannes Award, Malick had been "very mild." "He said:"if we were lucky that, I would like to thank my parents and my wife Becky"."

"The tree of life," which opens Friday at United States, stars Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain in a history distant family life which is played against a cosmic background, including the Visual glorious of the creation of the universe and the age of the dinosaurs.

Dunst won for his role in the history of the end of the world "Melancholy", whose Director, Lars von Trier's Denmark, was banned at the Festival after remarks sympathetic to Adolf Hitler at a press conference.

Actress Elena Anaya, right, director Pedro Almodovar kisses on the cheek as they arrive for screening of the skin, I live, the 64th film festival in Cannes, South of the France Thursday, May 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan) Close

"Wow, what a week it was," said Dunst, who plays a deeply depressed woman coping with manies family as a rogue planet is down on a possible collision with the Earth course.

"It is an honour which is a unique thing for an actress," said Dunst, who thanked the organizers of the festival to allow "Melancholy" to remain in the competition after remarks Nazi von Trier and offered warm words for its Director. "I want to thank Lars for giving me the opportunity to be so brave."

Von Trier was not allowed to attend the ceremony on Sunday.

Jean Dujardin claimed the award for best actor for the silent film "The artist", in which he plays a star of Hollywood of the 1920s whose career crumbles as talking images become the standard. In keeping with his singing, nature Lookout, Dujardin was a little tap when he came to the stage of Cannes.

Dujardin said that he wanted to share his prize with partner Bérénice Bejo, got up and blew kisses him on the stage. The film was directed by the husband of Bejo, French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius, who has made Dujardin in "oss 117" parodies of espionage.

"I hope to make other silent films with you," Dujardin said Hazanavicius.

Several well received films, among them Spanish thriller of horror film director Pedro Almodovar "The skin I Live In" and "We need to talk about Kevin by British filmmaker Lynne Ramsay" go home empty-handed.

Malick, who made that five films in a career of almost 40 years, previously won the lead in 1979 for "Days of Heaven" on his last trip to Cannes. "The tree of life" was shot three years ago and the festival organizers had hoped premiere at Cannes last year, but he was not ready in time.

Prizes were awarded by a jury of nine members, led by Robert De Niro, which included actors Uma Thurman and Jude Law.

"The tree of life" is the first American film to win top honors at the Cannes Film Festival since back-to-back recipient in 2003 (Gus Van Sant "elephant") and 2004 (Michael Moore "Fahrenheit 9/11").

Buy! Sell! Crowd funding helps stimulate Cannes films

CANNES, France - stocks, bonds... and now of the films? Investors in France are accepted cash online to help to produce, promote and distribute feature films, including two that it is nominated for best film at the Cannes Festival.

Contenders for Palme d'Or "habemus papam" and "Polish" will be two use the money collected on a website, French to fund their promotion and distribution in France, where the so-called "crowd financing" is being test leads for studio productions.

Their success at the Cannes hints film festival that cash crowd-funding - or awareness of many small investors online - could give fans a greater role in determining what films end up in the production and the way they are promoted.

"We give people the opportunity to invest in a film while offering behind the scenes to see how it is done," said Serge Hayat, 47, a co-founder of PeopleforCinema and French film producer, the website to collect funds to promote and distribute "habemus papam" and "Polish."

Already popular for musicians who based the United States of sites like Kickstarter and Rockethub, funding the crowd tends to let users buy in a creative project in its early stages, most often in exchange for gifts in the form of special promotional material.

With its high barriers to entry, the film industry proved more resistant to the crowd of funding as the multi-million dollar production budgets and fixed distribution networks kept funding in the hands of banks, the studios and big investors.

"It is much more complicated than helping an artist to record an album or funding of an art exhibition, said Hayat.".

"The scale is much larger, there are more players involved, the financial stakes are higher," he added. "But we have a good sales argument, both for users and companies."

PASSION VS. GREED

Based in an attic Office in Paris, PeopleforCinema shows members of video clips of mainly filled with movies and allows them to achieve an "investment" - films are advertised on the site with the message "Buy shares now" - in that they think has the best chance of success at the box office.

If the film superclasses by more than one objective for the sale of tickets, members are rewarded in proportion to their investment. If it flops, they lose, although gifts such as DVD and first tickets soften the blow.

Hayat said investors betting an average of 150 euros can add more than 100,000 euros, or 20-30% to the budget of the promotion of the film, a and are serious in making money.

"There is a real investment mentality...." Some people are putting up thousands of euros, and to make good money in return.

"In return, production houses get free viral promotion on the web to our users, who speak of cinema to all their friends," Hayat added.

Touscoprod, launched in 2009, takes a different tack by giving members the opportunity to invest in a film in the early stages of production, after watching a short or an interview with the Director, posted on its web site.

It takes more time for investments for returns, and members are often compensated in the form of promotional material. But the sense of belonging is stronger than investors to see their name in the credits - or applaud their films to the ceremony.

Two films cofinanced by users Touscoprod, Peru "fausta" and U.S. documentary "waste land", were nominated for an Oscar in 2009 and 2011, respectively.

Co-founder Nicolas Bailly, 37, said that touscoprod depends on more love for members of the film than any desire to enrich themselves.

"Our approach is to say our community in support of films that really need", he told Reuters. "It's mostly successfully for documentaries, where small budgets mean that raise five or six thousand euros can make the difference between a movie realized or not."

The films have as "Habemus Papam" nominated at the Cannes film festival was a huge boon for the company, now works on transactions to promote the "Pirates of: Caribbean the on the tides of the Stranger" in France and the Finns of the film, "Le Havre" a festival favorite.

Chased out of Cannes for the Quip Nazi filmmaker

 Stating that you are a Nazi: it is a tried-and-true way to lose friends and alienate people.

Acclaimed independent Danish filmmaker that Lars von Trier found the way difficult when he was deported today of the Festival de Cannes joking at a press conference Wednesday that he was a Nazi and included Adolf Hitler. His film, "Melancholy", is in competition at the festival and could have a shot at the first price.

In response to a question about its Germanic roots, the judge gave a long response to it is ironic but came off the coast of bad taste.

"For a long time, I thought I was a Jew and I was pleased to be a Jew," said. "But then I learned that I really was a Nazi." My family was German. And that also gave me some pleasure. What can I say?

"I understand Hitler." I think he did some things wrong, Yes, absolutely, but I do not see him sitting in his bunker. ... I understand much about him, and I sympathise with him a little. ?

He added: "I am not for the second world war and I am not against the Jews." ... I am, of course, many Jews, no, not too because Israel is a pain in the ass, but still, how can I get this question? ?

After throwing around a few more informed-not, he found his conclusion: "OK, I am a Nazi."

Kirsten Dunst, one of the stars of the film, grew visibly uncomfortable sitting next to Trier. (It had its own staff moment of embarrassment when the judge explained bad mood of his character in "Melancholy", referring to his battle against depression: "I would say Kirsten, thank God, has some knowledge of the depression.") (We've talked about many things what should look like and I think it is extremely powerful.)

While screening Wednesday evening of "Melancholy" was met with applause, after-parties for the film have been have been cancelled because of the comments of the trier of fact. It was officially started from the festival this morning.

In a statement on the site Web of the film, the Board of Directors of the Cannes festival says trier comments "deeply regrets", "strongly condemns" them and "says Lars von Trier a persona non grata at the Cannes Film Festival, with effect immediately.

A representative of the festival said the New York Times that "Melancholy" will remain in the competition.

Movie Stars, models share Cannes charity Catwalk

 Mode rolled out the red carpet for charity at Cannes, with a runway of benefit show which saw A-listers including Naomi Campbell, Jane Fonda, Rosario Dawson and tennis man Novak Djokovic strut their stuff for a good cause.

Campbell fashion for relief charity organized the Monday show and an auction to raise money for the Japanese Red Cross to help victims of the recent earthquake and tsunami that followed y.

Scores of celebrities in town for the Festival de Cannes has proved to support the event Monday, while a small army of models, their time, walking in the Red-ready carpet expects Lanvin, Jean Paul Gaultier, Sonia Rykiel, Valentino and a host of other labels top of page.

From his perch-front row, Ivana Trump has welcomed the decision to hold the show in Cannes during the film festival of 12 day here as a "brilliant choice."

"All rich people are in town for the festival, people of cinema and fashion, so that they can achieve in their pockets and give money to help," said Trump, elegant in a black minidress with a décolleté inclinése bedazzled research. She said that she had not yet seen the film but planned to spend the last six days of doing the film prestigious showcase shuttle between his homes in Monaco, Cannes and Saint Tropez while dealing with some select films.

Another Member of the public, designer Peter Dundas - whose label Pucci was long seen as an iconic brand in the Japan - said it was proven for the Monday event because "the disaster of the Japan is our disaster."

"More than ever, we cannot think that just because something is happening across the world it concerns us." Of course he is involved, "he says.

Editor-in-expert of Japanese Vogue Anna Della Russo, said the "it's in Japanese characters to be really strong and optimistic" but "they really need help.".

Exclaimed asked if she thought that the disaster would affect notoriously extravagant sense of Japanese style, the maven pushing the envelope of style: "I hope not because they are so crazy fashion like me and I do not want to change."

In addition to the flock of professionals - both the current herd of young girls that the rule of the gateways of today to the Veterans of the industry, led by Campbell, in a number of black long lean - models also included tennis field, Djokovic and Grace Hightowerwho is married to Robert De Niro, President of the Cannes jury this year.

At the age of 73, founded looked divine in a shimmering second skin dress, while shaken Dawson a floor-length burnt orange number. The crowd devoured the two, their shower in applause.

None of the non-professional models had no problem, but one of the hottest models of the moment was quashed by her oversized meringue dress. She fell once and then again and again and again - four times in a single pass - before falling again his next time out, in a sundress and platforms towering.

Drama of Pitt for Malick has Cannes divided crowd

CANNES, France - Terrence Malick respected both his public and a professional reputation at the Cannes Film Festival Monday, remaining out of sight, the first time a film that leaves crowds buzzing on its thematic scope, emotional depth and visual magnitude.

The notoriously press-shy Malick was nowhere to be seen after "the tree of life," both anticipated epic drama of the writer-director of creation, and place a family in this document, a screening for critics and reporters in advance its first official Festival.

The film with Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain attract a dissemination of harsh and prolonged boos, responded with enthusiastic applause from others at the press screening.

"The tree of life" is only Malick fifth film in a career of almost 40 years and his first since "Days of Heaven of 1979" Cannes Festival, which he won a directing award of the festival.

Malick has remained behind the scenes for his subsequent films, "The Thin Red Line of 1998" and "The New World of 2005", and he has ignored the Cannes press conference that followed the screening of Monday, leaving PittChastain and its producers to deal with journalists.

The producer "Mr. Malick is very shy, and I would say that, in my view, that his work speaks for itself," Sarah Green said.

Pitt compared the attitude of the Malick to the broadcast of a film to the construction of a House - Builder should then not sell.

"I don't know why it is accepted that people who do things in our company are then expected to sell, and I do not think that calculates with him," said Pitt. "He wants to focus on the making of it, not the real estate, sale of real estate." It is a strange thing for an artist to start something and then be seller. ?

Organizers of Cannes had hoped to debut the film a year ago, but he was not ready in time.

"The tree of life" stars Pitt as a magnet, but sometimes brutally stern father with Chastain wife that stands as a figure of grace for their three confused, intimidated son. Penn plays a man grown, reflecting on the people and moments that have shaped his eldest son.

The richly personal drama is recounted in a broad scope of Impressionist exchanges and images: views breathtaking of the creation of the universe of key scenes in the age of the dinosaurs to tender and terrifying moments families.

Some at the Cannes Festival held all deeply moving. Others said Malick went on top, as certain sequences play Cosmic on during 15 minutes or more without a human face to see.

The range of reactions might be appropriate while Malick.

"One of the reasons that Terry may refrain from forums like this is that he wants to keep standing on its own work." It does not mean what he is talking about or whether or not it is autobiographical, ", said producer Bill Pohlad." "He wants just the audience to make their own thing to it..., as opposed to her interpreting he or she verbalize.".

Moretti mines his own life for the Papal Theatre of Cannes

CANNES, France - the central character "Habemus Papam of Nanni Moretti" is a cardinal Catholic Roman seized with faith-testing panic when it is selected as the next Pope.

Moretti is a confirmed atheist and a confident filmmaker, welcomed criticism. And yet, he argues that the film is - as his films - autobiographical.

"Even if they do not speak on my life, they represent that I am at the moment," Moretti said in an interview at the Cannes Festival. "They always reflect a sense that I have at this time, a feeling which grows and leads to a story and characters."

In the case of "habemus papam" - Latin for "we have a Pope" expression with which the election of a Pontiff is announced - sense was "a sense of failure... the desire to be elsewhere, the difficulty you have in playing the role for which you have been choisiou you have chosen yourself." "".

It is a feeling of many viewers will recognize - but a stroke daring to invest that anxiety in elected Pontiff, a man looks at the faithful was chosen by God to lead the Church.

The screen the Pope, played by the French old actor Michel Piccoli for 85 years, rushes away from the balcony of the Vatican, where he is due to bless the crowd gathered below. As opposed to managers of a psychoanalyst played by Moretti, he escapes and wanders the streets of Rome, meet ordinary people and reassessment of his life.

His companions left, stranded in the city of the Vatican, Cardinals battle to pass the time until that character of Moretti organizes a clerical volleyball tournament.

Moretti has declared that he wanted to humanize these mysterious and distant churches figures, seen at the beginning of the film to scroll the Vatican in dress crimson glory, but soon revealed to be as much of the frail and human than anyone in the audience.

"The Pope is shown as a man," said Moretti. "Even if it is considered as the incarnation of God on Earth, he is a man and a man who is able to say no. I also wanted to make more human Cardinals - these small children that are blocked in the conclave."

The film, one of the 20 competing for first prize at the festival this year, has already opened in Italy for a mixture of praise, disappointment and relief.

The relief came from the Church, who feared Moretti, who sent to scandal-magnet Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in "he caimano" ("The Cayman"), may have his satirical scalpel. The disappointment comes from laity, sorry it was not more wild on a church which has been tarnished by revelations of sexual abuse committed and an investigation of laundering money in the Bank of Vatican.

"These people want to know my film something they know already," said Moretti. "They would like to see something that they have already seen and be told that they have already read in the newspapers and seen on TV". I preferred to make a film which dealt with the issues.

"When I do a film, I don't think believers on the audience, on a particular audience - step or psychoanalysts or right wing or the left," he said. "" "". I do what I want to do. ?

Moretti is clearly a Director with confidence in his own imagination. Representation in the lavishly detailed scenes of the film of the Vatican took less research that might be expected.

"I have invented," said the Italian Director. "It's my job." I saw a documentary that has inspired me for the procession when you see all the Cardinals goes to the Sistine Chapel. The rest was invented. ?

He convinced in part because few have seen behind closed doors Vatican. In the era of the Internet, Moretti can demand how much time this mystery remains intact.

"Maybe you webcams in the Sistine Chapel the next time," said.

The 57-year-old Moretti is a favorite of Cannes and won the top page, the Palme d'Or trophy, a decade earlier with his history of the family loss "room of the son."

But it does step radiate delight as he is sitting nervously on a hotel balcony overlooks the dismal Croisette, the Cannes seafront boulevard.

"I am not a frequent traveler," said Moretti. "And to go to Cannes does not travel." It is a folly. ?

Faye Dunaway honored at the Festival de Cannes

CANNES - girl displays of Cannes and oscarisée actress Faye Dunaway added a few glamour of Hollywood old school on the Croisette Sunday when Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand named officer of the order of Arts and letters at a ceremony in Cannes.

While her face famous, can be seen on the Croisette on the poster official festival this year in a photograph taken by Jerry Schatzberg, 1970, the actress made a live appearance at the Cafe des Palmes in the Palace to accept his prize.

"It has one of the most wonderful filmographies for any actress." Watch his films of the 1970s for example - it can only make good choices. "She had an incredible career," the festival artistic director Thierry Frémaux said the star of classic movies like "chinatown" and "Network", as well as his first great success, "Bonnie and Clyde".

Dunaway kept everyone waits, and then made a late entry but dramatic, saying Mitterand in perfect English: "it is a great honour." "I am sorry for the delay - I blame time".

Dunaway for the first time in Cannes to present the Palme d'Or for Wim Wenders for "paris, Texas."

You're actress in films of author, but also films for a wide audience, which makes you an eternal star, "Mitterrand said Dunaway before decoration."

"This I will be cherished," Dunaway said its price before endured. "I have a new dream, and I am working on my new film as a Director and actress," Dunaway said of the future. "For me, acting is a kind of comfort and satisfaction, but it is never of the wind in my hair, as stated by Meryl Streep.". It is anxiety, because it is a war to make a film, you need to take fire and prevail, as Faulkner says, so you must be very strong. ?

Allen "midnight," Niro Jury Cannes Open

 Astronomers must catch some of the greatest stars of Hollywood seen at the Festival de Cannes before "Midnight in Paris", romance of Woody Allen that opens the glamour event with a first night Wednesday.

Side to respond to the journalists and festival-goers earlier in the day will be Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek, with Allen Director and some of its cast, which includes Owen WilsonRachel McAdams and Marion Cotillard.

Opening day of the 12-day film showcase includes an honorary award for the Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, whose films take account of the beneficiary best-picture Oscar 1988 "the last emperor".

Niro, costs of its own the Tribeca Film Festival wrapped on 1 may in New York, at the head of the jury award among the 20 films in the main competition of Cannes. Thurman and right join him on the nine members of the jury, which also includes the actress Argentina Martina Gusman, French filmmaker Olivier Assayas and filmmaker from Hong Kong, Johnnie To.

Taking advantage of the horde of international press at the Cannes Film Festival, DreamWorks Animation and Paramount Pictures bring Banderas and Hayek for a photo event and interviews before the festival opens to promote their upcoming animated adventure "Puss in boots"."," a spin off of the "shrek" franchise

Also outside the appropriate festival, Black, Angelina Jolie and Hoffman come to interview the day of the opening, with a press conference a day later, for their suite of DreamWorks animation "kung fu Panda 2"

Other stars side before the festival closes May 22 include Brad Pitt and Sean Penn for Terrence Malick "the tree of life"; Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg to "Melancholy Lars von Trier,". Ryan Gosling for Nicolas Winding "Drive of Refn"; and Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz for "" Pirates of the Caribbean: on stranger tides. ""

"It is in the DNA of Cannes attract stars." "It is important that our red carpet"scarlet,"", said Director General festival Thierry Frémaux. "It is wonderful that we are going to have Woody Allen and Owen Wilson, Sean Penn and Kirsten Dunst, Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz." And to have Asian stars, too. And a lovely, led by Bob De Niro jury. In addition, all these people are film lovers and will transform a wonderful party for the cinema in Cannes. ?

Banderas, Hayek Purr on "Puss" at the Cannes Festival

 Getting more aged in Hollywood and Hispanic, there is no longer has limitations that they were once, say, Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek.

After all, they ask, when to have Hispanic actors never landed these roles feline big as the leads in the adventure of animation "Puss in Boots"?

"When I started to, Hispanic roles were very limited," Hayek said Wednesday at the Cannes Festival, where she and Banderas joins DreamWorks Animation supervisors to show images of "Puss in boots", a spin off "shrek" from November of this year. "The roles were very limited." There are one or two types of characters that you used to do. Now, we come to play cats! It's OK to be a Hispanic, even if you are a cat. ?

"Cats were British, normally," Banderas added at a session of questions and answers with Hayek, after the projected film.

"I feel very proud, in fact," Banderas said of his role in the expansion of the types of open to performers Hispanic. "I never claimed when I went to Hollywood to be a guy from Oklahoma." I am what I am. And fortunately, the Spanish community of the United States has increased in the past 22 years that I was there. There has been an explosion in Hollywood, which is a reflection of the society in which we live. ?

After that the images showed, Banderas and Hayek lead a pier along the Mediterranean beach, where they pose for photos on a giant pair of boots bearing the title of the film.

Banderas repeated his role as voice of the three latest "shrek" movies, providing the voice of Puss in boots, the small cat with big heart, big ideas and the largest ego.

A prequel chronicling the adventures of the Puss before meeting Shrek the ogre, the film has the cat as an outlaw, seeking to draw out big score.

But his plan is interrupted by another calculation cat, Kitty Softpaws (doubled by Hayek), who is in League with pal-turned-foe Humpty Dumpty of Puss (Zach Galifianakis), as they try to drag the Beanstalk in the fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk" bandits terrible Jack and Jill (Billy Bob Thornton and Amy Sedaris).

Age is another obstacle Hollywood Banderas and Hayek feel they have circumvented.

Banderas yelled proudly age 50, while Hayek, 44, said that this is the best time of his career, with four films in the works of this year and the work more enjoyable than ever.

"What makes you feel old is when you're not enthusiastic of life." You're not more excited about what you do, and you may not do as well, "said Hayek. "I think my body beginning to-as I need glasses now when I read my scripts." I wear them, but I am happy for the porter and happy that I get always read my scripts.

"So it was not so bad." They are afraid of me. They told me, ' forget it. 30, It is finished for you. "And it was not the case. It's great age in Hollywood. ?

Cannes turns to headings, authors edgy

COLOGNE - the Cannes 2011 slate seems designed to avoid the pitfalls of competition last year, who do not have produced one winner of Oscar, commercial success or a scandal of great cinema - the three large boxes Mostra worthy of the name must check.

For its 64th Edition, starting Wednesday, Cannes appears intent to reassert its claim to the title of best of the world film festival, with a range of author-heavy that includes Pedro Almodovar, Lars von Trier and Terrence Malick.

The fest also focuses on young people with a generous sampling of the hottest goes-and-venus in film overall, Nicolas Winding Refn, Danish Director of the vehicle Ryan Gosling "Drive," to Julia Leigh, first-timer Aussie behind edgy "sleeping beauty."

On the front of the star, Cannes this year is spoilt for choice, playing safe with big names such as Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Eva Longoria, Jodie Foster, Antonio Banderas and Owen Wilson. Not to mention those of France, President Nicolas Sarkozy and the first lady Carla Bruni, who will likely be pigs the star of the opening night when they appear for the first Woody Allen "midnight in Paris," in which Bruni has a cameo.

But at Cannes, films are the stars, and with a range of competition of this year, the festival really shines.

The hottest ticket is long in gestation "tree of life of Malick." The drama, starring Pitt and Penn, was initially set to bow year last at Cannes before perfectionist Malick withdrew to redesign later. Delay has only enhanced the film enigmatic allure, and expectations are high.

"It was very important to Cannes to have this film because we talked about it for a year," explains Xavier Leherpeur, a critic of films for French cinema CineLive of Studio magazine. "I want to make it great."

Malick was at Cannes that only once before - in 1979, when he won the award the Director for the "days of heaven". But even sight unseen, "Tree of life", screens may 16, is the former favorite to win the Palme d'Or.

That said, Malick has some stiff competition.

Almodovar - which, despite three previous attempts, has not won the first prize in the Cannes - throws his bonete back in the ring with "the skin I live In". The film is a departure from gender to the Spanish captain of melodrama. A horror film, "skin" stars Banderas as a surgeon in plastic that hunting the man who raped his daughter.

Von Trier, who abhors heights (and depressions) with "Antichrist" two years ago, returns with his knife blow to science fiction, "Melancholy." Starring Kirsten Dunst, Kiefer Sutherland and Alexander Skarsgard, the film is ironically called "beautiful film towards the end of the world".

David Gritten, a critic of film for the London Telegraph, said "Melancholia" could be big scandal this year. "Von Trier has probably taken things also that he was able to with the Antichrist," Gritten said, but when it comes to scandals in Cannes, you can never exclude him. ?

If von Trier does not provide in issues of shock, the baton could move to Leigh, whose debut, "sleeping beauty", is an erotic drama about a woman (Emily Browning) that falls in a form of prostitution narcoleptic.

Less scandalous, but all also well considered are duo Belgian cinema and twice winners of gold Palm the Dardenne brothers, returning to competition after an absence of three years with their drama "The Kid with the bike." But other Cannes heavy weights that make up the list of this year seem ready to push the envelope unexpectedly, including Radu Mihaileanu the Romania, whose "The Source of women" tells the story of a group of village women who threaten a sex strike. Then, there normally calm Nanni Moretti, which curiously entitled "we have a Pope" focuses on the relationship between a newly elected Pope and his therapist.

Whether if lineup this year will be always all buzz coming time Oscar - never a certainty, especially after last year - a handful of titles could appeal to the voters of the Academy, including the thriller of action of the Refn "Drive", which is reinforced by the presence of Gosling and Carey young stars Mulligandeux more RCVI to screen at this time. Then there's "We need to talk about Kevin" of British helmer, Lynne Ramsay, who gets the big buzz for its performance by Tilda Swinton and John c. Reilly as the parents of a teenager who goes on a shooting.

As for dark horses, keep an eye for "This must be the place", a drama of language English of "it divo" Director Paolo Sorrentino. If the plot - Gothic rocker-towers-Nazi hunter to avenge his father - do not out-there seems enough to generate interest, Penn in a wig with a mustache and mascara is sure to be one of the most enduring images on the Croisette this year.

Cannes to show films by the Iranians sentenced

 According to the organizers, that the Festival de Cannes will screen two new films by Iranian filmmakers recently sentenced to six years in prison in terms at home.

Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof appealed the prison sentence and 20 years of accompaniment bans film on charges that included "making propaganda" against Iran's Islamic regime.

Cannes organizers, said Saturday that they will screen two films "made in clandestine conditions" by filmmakers and that have been received by the organizers of the festival these days.

The show will be Rasoulof "Be omid e didar" (Good Bye), on the search for a lawyer in Tehran for a visa to leave the Iran and "Film Nist" (this is not a film) - on the expectation of the Panahi for the verdict of the appeal from the Court.

Stars come out to shine for the festival of Cannes

PARIS - with a good selection of films, Robert De Niro, Executive Board and a galaxy of stars expected on the Croisette, Cannes film festival this year is promising to be among the liveliest ever.

The 64th Edition of the world more large film festival opens Wednesday on the French Riviera with the first off Woody Allen last romantic comedy competition "midnight in Paris".

Twenty images, including the fresh work of Pedro Almodóvar Spain, the Danish Lars Von Trier and the Belgium Dardenne brothers, are for the highly coveted Palme d'Or.

"The selected films must really give the feeling that they deserve to be here", festival Director Thierry Frémaux told AFP in an interview, explaining how tough it can be to whittle down the selection.

"The festival reflects the State of cinema, and in General, the State of the film speaks to the State of the world."

Since its launch in the aftermath of the second world war, Cannes has been a lightning rod for controversy, but this year Frémaux says that the official selection is "" without a doubt one of the most ever'."

Oscar-winner De Niro, who plays in the past winners of gold Palm "Taxi Driver" and "The Mission", is Director of the Board which includes stars Hollywood Uma Thurman and Jude Law, Director of Johnny Hong Kong producer Shi Nansun of cinema and French Director Olivier Assayas.

A - Listers galore - among them Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, Penelope Cruz and Catherine Deneuve - will at the same time take is based on the lush red carpet leads in the Palais des Festivals.

"Midnight in Paris" gets special attention not least for his bit players: first lady Carla Bruni, his debut film as a member of the museum staff - hugging France Clipboard.

Seven hundred police have been detailed for the festival, where the killing of Osama bin Laden has matching security problems.

"An international event of this magnitude with so many personalities, many Americans, is in itself a real risk potential," a police spokesman said.

In a salute to change in the Middle East, the festival is honoring the Egypt as its first "guest country", while a snap of the uprising in Tunisia documentary will be the first film of this country in Cannes in 11 years.

Films by convicted Iranian directors Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof, made in "grey conditions", in the meantime will be screened in the official languages and Un Certain Regard sections respectively, organizers, said Saturday.

French Director veteran Andre Techine will be rubbing shoulders with unknown and young filmmakers by avant-garde film directors fortnight program.

Asia, of the competition but produced exclusively for the festival "bollywood: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told" tribute to Indian popular cinema.

Also of competition and likely to stir controversy, will be "The conquest" by Director Xavier Durringer, a biography of Nicolas Sarkozy, who is the first film ever to Cannes on a French President.

Spanish heavyweight Almodovar will present "The Piel that Habito" (The Skin I live) in competition with Antonio Banderas featuring.

Von Trier, winner Palme d'Or in 2000 with "Dancer in the Dark", returns with "Melancholy", while the Dardennes will be gunning for their third Palme d'Or with "The kid in the velo" (The Kid with a bike).

Israeli filmmaker Joseph Cedar will unspool "Hearat Shulayim" (reference), and Director of the U.S. Terrence Malick will present "The Tree of Life", bringing together the Pitt and Penn on screen.

The Japan will be "ishimei" (Hara-Kiri: death of a Samurai) by Takashi Miike and "Hanezu Tsuki no" of Naomi Kawase.

The only British competitor was Lynne Ramsay with "We need to talk about Kevin," while the Australia, "Sleeping Beauty of Julia Leigh" is one of the two films for the first time in competition, the other being "michael" by Austrian director Markus Schleinzer.

Legend of cinema Italian Bernardo Bertolucci, whose classics include "Last Tango in Paris" and "The last emperor", must receive a Palme d'Or honorary for his life.

Cannes almost triple in population during the 11 days of festival 200 000, due not only to all screenings, but also to an international film market, where more than 10,000 participants from 101 countries will be haggle over the rights of 4,240 filmsmany of them still in production.

"On the steps, in parts, in theatres, Cannes is the place to be," said Frémaux.