It's a Lovely Day in CANNES And Life Is Rotten.

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  • Author(s): Corliss, Richard
  • Source:
    Time International (Canada Edition). 6/9/2003, Vol. 161 Issue 23, p46. 3p. 8 Color Photographs.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      FILM festivals; MOTION picture industry; CULTURAL industries
    • Subject Terms:
      CANNES (France); FRANCEReport Available
    • Abstract:
      The rumors at the 56th Cannes Film Festival were so much more entertaining than the stuff on the Grand Palais screen, they deserve their own prizes. So here are our Kick-the-Cannes Awards. Best Pre-Festival Disaster Scenario: the Hell-no-we-won't-go rumor. After Gulf War II, journalists speculated that big American stars and producers would boycott Cannes in solidarity with the U.S. government's cold-shouldering of France. This notion of Cannes as a family picnic, where the feudin' cousins stay home, ignores what the festival really is: a place where movies are seen and sold. Hollywood will go anywhere to sell its product, and so will its grand old icons. Best Post-Festival Conspiracy Theory: the gay-Mafia rumor. Though Lars Von Trier's "Dogville" was deemed front-runner for the Palme d'Or, Gus Van Sant's "Elephant" took the prize. So the festival did end with the an openly homosexual French director (jury president Patrice Chéreau) presenting the award to an openly homosexual American director (Van Sant).