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• French Critics at Cannes Boo Coppola's Marie Antoinette

Reaction at the festival was mixed yesterday for Coppola's Marie Antoinette, with some admiring its youthful energy but French critics booing the American filmmaker's take on a pivotal moment in France's history. I've never seen Desperate Housewives, but I think, here's this woman, wife, whose husband is not paying attention to her, so she's staying out partying and going shopping," Coppola said. "We've heard that story before. "There were plenty of French people that absolutely adored the film that I talked to," [Kirsten Dunst] said. "The fact that we're in this competition in France and it's Marie Antoinette I think says a lot about how they feel about the movie."

... The film also features Rip Torn, Judy Davis, Asia Argento and Steve Coogan. Young Marie is seen as a...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 10, 2009

• Cannes' Palme d'Or Bestowed Upon Drama the White Ribbon

This is one moment in my life in which I'm very happy, and so are you, I believe," said [Michael Haneke], who received the festival's Palme d'Or for his gorgeously photographed black-and-white tale. The White Ribbon examines themes of communal guilt, distrust and punishment among residents of a small German town besieged by tragedies and strange occurrences as the First World War approaches. [Christoph Waltz] earned the best-actor award for his gleefully homicidal role as Nazi Col. Hans Landa, renowned in Germany as an ace "Jew hunter" in Inglourious Basterds, [Quentin Tarantino]'s rewrite of the history books that follows the exploits of a band of Jewish Allied commandos led by Brad Pitt. Tarantino spins a wildly different take on how the war ended as Pitt's crew plots to take out top...

... included actresses Robin Wright Penn and Asia Argento and director James Gray, presented a speci...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• October 01, 2009

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