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Date: 2012-05-28 Author: Steven Zeitchik Article Mentions
Author, Steven ZeitchikMentioned, Lee Daniels Mentioned, Gael Garcia Bernal Mentioned, Nicole Kidman Mentioned, Matthew McConaughey Mentioned, Kristen Stewart Mentioned, Eugene Hernandez Mentioned, David Cronenberg Mentioned, Shia LaBeouf Mentioned, John Hillcoat Mentioned, Zac Efron Mentioned, Jeff Nichols Mentioned, Robert Pattinson Mentioned, Michael Haneke Mentioned, Sony Mentioned, Sony Pictures Classics Mentioned, Twitter Mentioned, Hollywood
CANNES, France The Cannes Film Festival didn't see a breakout on the order of The Artist this year. And yet The Artist was everywhere. The silent film's sense of playfulness and disregard for convention pretty much infused the festival. Wherever one looked, there seemed to be another bold experiment sometimes delighting audiences, often polarizing them. Among the more well-received movies of the 65th edition of Cannes, which wrapped Sunday evening, was Leos Carax's Holy Motors, a surrealist romp through the streets of Paris. Some of its touches: A man biting the body parts off people at a cemetery-set photo shoot and limousines that spoke to one another in darkened garages. PHOTOS: Cannes Film Festival 2012 Carax was hardly alone in his e...(read more)
... CANNES, France The Cannes Film Festival didn't see a breakout on the order of The Artist this year. And yet The Artist was everywhere. The silent film's sense of playfulness and disregard for convention pretty much infused the festival. Wherever one ...
... meanwhile, tried his hand at an intensely heightened 1960's melodrama in The Paperboy, a period movie about race and murder starring Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron; the movie was so filled with over-the-top touches that it prompted pundit Eugene Hernan ...
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