Woody Allen opens Cannes, a new dawn for the Aurora Orchestra, plus Prince Charles learns about doorbells
Woody brings Paris to Cannes
The Cannes film festival kicks off this morning with Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris. We may be bored of Allen this side of the channel, particularly after his London films (the Cannes screening of Match Point in 2005 marked some of the deadest hours of my life), but in France he is still adored.
Its trailer – in which the Eiffel tower features about five times, along with the Arc de Triomphe, the Grand Palais and innumerable chic little bistros – suggests a love letter to a touristy version of the city, and the familiar trope of an American finding himself in Paris. On the plus side, Michael Sheen's in it.
The film with most potential for watch-through-your-fingers anguish, however, may be Jodie Foster's The Beaver, in which...
Woody brings Paris to Cannes
The Cannes film festival kicks off this morning with Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris. We may be bored of Allen this side of the channel, particularly after his London films (the Cannes screening of Match Point in 2005 marked some of the deadest hours of my life), but in France he is still adored.
Its trailer – in which the Eiffel tower features about five times, along with the Arc de Triomphe, the Grand Palais and innumerable chic little bistros – suggests a love letter to a touristy version of the city, and the familiar trope of an American finding himself in Paris. On the plus side, Michael Sheen's in it.
The film with most potential for watch-through-your-fingers anguish, however, may be Jodie Foster's The Beaver, in which...
- 5/10/2011
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
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