opened in the uk back injanuary 2021, another round bowed here injuly, around about the same time that the 74th cannes film festival was kicking off across the channel. serving as the festival s curtain raiser was annette, a brilliantly bonkers musical written and scored by sparks, in which stars like adam driver and marion cotillard were arguably upstaged in the title role by a puppet. the film, which earned leos carax a cannes best director award, was the culmination of a long standing cinematic dream for ron and russell mael, a dream that had been brilliantly captured in edgar wright s wonderfully exhaustive documentary the sparks brothers. who are sparks? we are sparks. what are sparks? sparks are a band. are you a real band? next question. are you an english band? we are not an english band. dude. indeed, 2021 would see the release of not one
as always, the international categories proved the most eye opening part of award season, providing an important platform forfilms like quo vadis, aida?, which was nominated for both baftas and oscars and which recently won top honours at the european film awards. they are killing people outside. a harrowing drama set during the srebrenica massacre of 1995, writer director jasmila zbanic s film lent a human heart to a horrifying tale, ensuring that we keep on watching a notable achievement for a movie that is centrally concerned with the spectre of looking away. while quo vadis, aida? opened in the uk back in january 2021, another round bowed here injuly, around about the same time that the 74th cannes film festival was kicking off across the channel. serving as the festival s curtain raiser was annette, a brilliantly bonkers musical written and scored by sparks, in which stars like adam driver
providing an important platform forfilms like quo vadis, aida? which was nominated for both baftas and oscars and which recently won top honours at the european film awards. they are killing people outside. a harrowing drama set during the srebrenica massacre of 1995, writer director jasmila zbanic s film lent a human heart to a horrifying tale, ensuring that we keep on watching a notable achievement for a movie that is centrally concerned with the spectre of looking away. while quo vadis, aida? opened in the uk back in january 2021, another round bowed here injuly, around about the same time that the 74th cannes film festival was kicking off across the channel. serving as the festival s curtain raiser was annette, a brilliantly bonkers musical written and scored by sparks, in which stars like adam driver and marion cotillard were arguably upstaged in the title role by a puppet. the film, which earned leos carax a cannes best director award,
Cannes Film Festival delays press conference by one week; Official selections expected to be larger than ever
Cannes Film Festival has delayed its press conference by one week due to the large submission of films in most categories. The Festival has been shifted to July from May. Written By
Pinkvilla Desk 3447 reads Mumbai Published: May 15, 2021 03:33 am Cannes Film Festival delays press conference by one week; Official selections expected to be larger than ever
The prestigious Cannes Film Festival, which got canceled in 2020 due to the COVID outbreak has delayed its official press conference by one week. As per a report in Variety, the highly anticipated press conference will now occur on June 3. An industry source told Variety that the shift in date has happened due to the immense number of submissions in the festival this year which generally used to happen in May and the official selections would be unveiled a month earlier.