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Mexico's Reygadas brings surrealism to Cannes
May. 24, 2012 11:06 AM ET (AP)
As the credits rolled on the first Cannes Film Festival screening of Mexican director Carlos Reygadas' new film, someone in the audience shouted out "Viva Bunuel!"
The reference to surrealist cinema...
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Review: `The Intouchables' is a real crowd-pleaser
May. 23, 2012 4:12 PM ET (AP)
On paper, "The Intouchables" looks like eat-your-vegetables cinema: the story of a wealthy, white disabled man and the troubled black youth from the projects who becomes his reluctant caretaker....
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Kylie Minogue at Cannes in bizarre 'Holy Motors'
May. 23, 2012 9:01 AM ET (AP)
Holy cow. The most rapturous audience reception at the Cannes Film Festival has gone to "Holy Motors," a disorienting, whirling dream of a movie by French director Leos Carax.
Starring Denis Lavant as...
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Jacques Audiard praises B movies at Cannes
May. 20, 2012 7:03 AM ET (AP)
Jacques Audiard is on a quest to revive the B movie.
The French director has won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival and been nominated for an Academy Award, but he has a passion for the colorful...
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In the shadows of art, Cannes' market flourishes
May. 20, 2012 10:45 AM ET (AP)
The movie market at Cannes is such a dramatic sideshow that this year it's getting its own film.
Director James Toback and actor Alec Baldwin have been knocking up and down Cannes' Croisette boulevard...