Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Cannes 2013 live blog day 6: Inside Llewyn Davis, As I Lay Dying


Cannes 2013 live blog day 6: Inside Llewyn Davis, As I Lay Dying

All the news, reviews, comment and buzz from the Croisette on day six of the Cannes film festival




Ethan Coen, Carey Mulligan and musician T-Bone Burnett leave Sunday evening's screening of Inside Llewyn Davis at Cannes
Ethan Coen, Carey Mulligan and musician T-Bone Burnett leave Sunday evening's screening of Inside Llewyn Davis at Cannes. Photograph: IAN LANGSDON/EPAf
Monday morning at the 66th Cannes film festival, where the Coen brothers' latest film, Inside Llewyn Davis, has been making quite a splash. In a five-star review the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw called it the "best so far at Cannes": 
Cannes audiences just heard a clean, hard crack: the sound of the Coen brothers hitting one out of the park. Their new film is brilliantly written, terrifically acted, superbly designed and shot; it's a sweet, sad, funny picture about the lost world of folk music which effortlessly immerses us in the period.
Read the full review here, take a look at a similarly enthusiastic video review from Henry Barnes ("this is real genius"), and also see Charlotte Higgins' report from the ILD press conference.
It's not been ALL Coen brothers over the weekend: catch up reviews ofJimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian) (the biggest stinker at Cannes so far, by the sound of it), guilty-pleasure documentary Seduced and Abandoned, 70s-set 'whopping cop-opera' Blood Ties, and alsoMonsoon ShootoutTip TopBorgman and The Dance of Reality.
Elsewhere we've interviewed Heli-director Amat Escalante, and, to the endless chagrin of certain below-the-line commenters, there are moregalleries of film stars swanking about on red carpets.
Coming up later: Xan Brooks' diary, a Guardian Film Show Cannes-special, an interview British director Paul Wright, reviews of As I Lay Dying (James Franco's second film as director – will it improve on hisfirst?), A Castle in Italy, The Grand Beauty and Takeshi Miike's Shield of Straw, photo galleries, news, comment, and possibly the odd bit of lowest-common denominator celeb tittle-tattle (fingers crossed). More as it comes in.
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Keanu-watch

Keanu Reeves is in town to promote his directorial debut, Man of Tai Chi. Judging from the photo wires, photographers are making him do lots of slightly humiliating Tai Chi-esque poses.
Keanu Reeves poses during a photocall to present his film Man of Tai Chi.
Photograph: Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters
"Nice, Keanu, but could you maybe try to look slightly more uncomfortable?"
Actor Keanu Reeves poses for photographers during a photo call for the film Man of Tai Chi at the 66th international film festival.
 Photograph: Joel Ryan/Invision
"There we go."
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Xan Brooks has filed his latest diary entry – here's a preview:
Standing beside me, jostling my shoulder, a European radio journalist provides an excitable running commentary. "Justin Timberlake!" he keeps screaming. "Justin Timberlake!" How many times can he scream Justin Timberlake? Either the man is having a galloping nervous breakdown or Justin Timberlake has come to the premiere with a parade of 12 clones.
Updated 
Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard at the Cannes film festival
The Guardian Film Show team admire Xan's big microphone
In this video update from Cannes, Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard pick their festival highlights so far and look forward to what's still in store. A few select quotes:
"Ultraviolent, penis burning, puppy-strangling…"
"…absolutely dreadful; just beyond awful in every single way…"
"I was in my own hotel room eating Pringles."
What are they talking about? Find out by watching the whole thing here.

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