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Cannes update

Quick update on the Cannes film festival, which ended over the weekend. AP summed up the festival like this: "The festival began buoyantly May 13 with Pixar's 3-D animated adventure Up before plumbing depths of tragedy, pain and horror." Mm-hm.

Charlotte Gainsbourg won Best Actress in Lars von Trier's "terrifying" Antichrist, which I am scared of. Like von Trier's other leading ladies, Gainsbourg sounds like it was a hard role. She called making the movie "the strongest, most painful and most exciting experience of my whole life." (She stopped short of calling it "soul-robbery", like Bjork did about making Dancer in the Dark.)

Another article about the movie (SICK SPOILER ALERT) reveals that it contains a talking fox, and genital mutilation. Whatever Charlotte Gainsbourg got paid, it wasn't enough.

The big winner was Michael Haneke for his new movie The White Ribbon, which sounds almost as soul-robbing as Antichrist. It was shot in black and white, and AP says it "examines themes of communal guilt, distrust and punishment among residents of a small German town besieged by tragedies and strange occurrences as World War I approaches." I liked Haneke's Caché and The Piano Teacher a lot, so this one should be good.

The Evil Nazi guy from Inglourious Basterds won Best Actor, stealing the spotlight from obscure character actor Brad Pitt. Here's a complete list of winners.

categories: Movies
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