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Yes, We Cannes
The annual Cannes Film Festival never fails to combine a sampling of the best in
cinema with the not-as-great.
By Michael Giltz
An Advocate.com exclusive posted May 27, 2009
The big news at the 2009
Cannes Film Festival -- at
least for queer cineasts --was the ho-hum reception
to new films from Pedro
Almodóvar and Ang Lee andthe breakout success of
Montreal's out talent Xavier
Dolan. Dolan wrote,directed, and stars in I
Killed My Mother, a
blisteringly funny account of
a mother and son’s love-
hate (or, more often, hate-
hate) relationship. Itdominated the Directors'
Fortnight, winning three top
prizes, including best
French-language film and best first or second feature.
Dolan’s film will play at the Toronto Film Festival this fall and is rumored to be in the running for
the New York Film Festival (which selects only the cream of the crop from other festivals around
the world). Confident, handsome, and charming, with just the dash of ego needed for a director,
Dolan proved himself a serious talent and is certain to be making films for years to come.
Almodóvar’s Broken Embraces came and went in the competition without causing much of a fuss.
Starring Penélope Cruz, it features his currently typical mix of melodrama (involving a blind
director turned screenwriter, a secretary turned mistress, an angry gay son turned would-bedirector, a dead titan of industry) that adds up to much less than the sum of its parts. Critics
shrugged after checking with each other to see if they'd missed something. Was that all there
was, they asked? Yep. On the other hand, the brochure that was distributed to the press to
promote the film was by far the most lavish and eye-catching of the fest -- it looked more like a
fabulous edition of Vogue than something as banal as a promotional item. Almodóvar still has
style.
Lee's mild, amiable Taking Woodstock has a gay central role played by Demetri Martin, and that
alone is cause for celebration among his gay fans. It tells the modestly diverting story of a closeted
young gay man in the 1960s helping his parents with their ramshackle Catskills hotel when
Woodstock comes to town and upends their lives. It too barely caused a ripple even among serious
Lee fans and seemed more like a throat-clearing by Lee (who had made a string of serious films)than a substantial work.
Story continues on next page...
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One of the big discoveries of the festival was
Xavier Dolan, the 20 year old writer, director and
star of I Killed My Mother. The film won three
major awards at the Directors Fortnight and isalready guaranteed to be playing at the Toronto
Film Festival and -- if the rumours are true -- will
probably be invited to the New York Film Festivalas well before opening commercially. I've got afull length profile of Dolan that should run on
The Advocate website in the next few days. Come
back here to find a direct link when it goes up or
just keep checking out The Advocate's website.
Until then, here's a clip for cineastes with the Montreal-based Dolan talking about the visual stylehe used in his very funny but brutal debut. We were chatting at the private beach of the Majestic
Hotel in Cannes, so the sound in the background is the crashing surf. Ce qui charme!
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Yes, We Cannes
The annual Cannes Film Festival never fails to combine a sampling of the best in
cinema with the not-as-great.
By Michael Giltz
An Advocate.com exclusive posted May 27, 2009
The big news at the 2009
Cannes Film Festival -- at
least for queer cineasts --was the ho-hum reception
to new films from Pedro
Almodóvar and Ang Lee andthe breakout success of
Montreal's out talent Xavier
Dolan. Dolan wrote,directed, and stars in I
Killed My Mother, a
blisteringly funny account of
a mother and son’s love-
hate (or, more often, hate-
hate) relationship. Itdominated the Directors'
Fortnight, winning three top
prizes, including best
French-language film and best first or second feature.
Dolan’s film will play at the Toronto Film Festival this fall and is rumored to be in the running for
the New York Film Festival (which selects only the cream of the crop from other festivals around
the world). Confident, handsome, and charming, with just the dash of ego needed for a director,
Dolan proved himself a serious talent and is certain to be making films for years to come.
Almodóvar’s Broken Embraces came and went in the competition without causing much of a fuss.
Starring Penélope Cruz, it features his currently typical mix of melodrama (involving a blind
director turned screenwriter, a secretary turned mistress, an angry gay son turned would-bedirector, a dead titan of industry) that adds up to much less than the sum of its parts. Critics
shrugged after checking with each other to see if they'd missed something. Was that all there
was, they asked? Yep. On the other hand, the brochure that was distributed to the press to
promote the film was by far the most lavish and eye-catching of the fest -- it looked more like a
fabulous edition of Vogue than something as banal as a promotional item. Almodóvar still has
style.
Lee's mild, amiable Taking Woodstock has a gay central role played by Demetri Martin, and that
alone is cause for celebration among his gay fans. It tells the modestly diverting story of a closeted
young gay man in the 1960s helping his parents with their ramshackle Catskills hotel when
Woodstock comes to town and upends their lives. It too barely caused a ripple even among serious
Lee fans and seemed more like a throat-clearing by Lee (who had made a string of serious films)than a substantial work.
Story continues on next page...
Page: 1 | 2 | 3
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Dustin Lance Black
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Activism
So This Is London
Lounge Act
Lordy Lordy, Look
Who’s 40: NYCCelebrates Stonewall
Downturn?
Fuggedaboudit
A Smorgasbord of
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Sprechen Sie Pride?Oedipus Wrecks
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It Up
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30
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become the scourge of the gay community for a time, following a remark he made about AIDSbeing a fad in the ‘80s.
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One of the big discoveries of the festival was
Xavier Dolan, the 20 year old writer, director and
star of I Killed My Mother. The film won three
major awards at the Directors Fortnight and isalready guaranteed to be playing at the Toronto
Film Festival and -- if the rumours are true -- will
probably be invited to the New York Film Festivalas well before opening commercially. I've got afull length profile of Dolan that should run on
The Advocate website in the next few days. Come
back here to find a direct link when it goes up or
just keep checking out The Advocate's website.
Until then, here's a clip for cineastes with the Montreal-based Dolan talking about the visual stylehe used in his very funny but brutal debut. We were chatting at the private beach of the Majestic
Hotel in Cannes, so the sound in the background is the crashing surf. Ce qui charme!
Sarah Jessica Parker and
Matthew Broderick RevealTwins' Names
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Ways
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Rossi 'Happily Married WithoutChildren'
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