There are no film festival that command such respect and admiration from people across the globe than Cannes Film festival. So it is understandable that why most of the Hollywood big shots are in France now. Cannes, where Hollywood heavyweights can socialize and discuss new terms of the trade with the global elite. It's like moviedom's version of the Olympics, filmmakers and performers from around the world spend a week along the beaches of France, showing off their latest work in hopes of generating buzz and finding breakout success.
This year's slate of films sports plenty of recognizable faces: Ryan Gosling reteams with his Drive director Nicolas Winding-Refn for Only God Forgives; the Coen Bros. will show their loose Dave Van Ronk biopic starring Oscar Isaacs, Carey Mulligan, and Justin Timberlake; Steven Soderbergh's HBO movie Behind The Candelabra touts Matt Damon and Michael Douglas; and the "Out of Competition" category boasts Emma Watson's bad girl crime pic Bling Ring and the James Franco-directed Faulkner adaptation, As I Lay Dying. A packed roster.
On top of that, Cannes 2013 also has an eclectic collection of foreign films that look equally fascinating . From India we have the special screening of Bombay Talkies. The festival will open with Baz Luhrmann's film The great Gatsby which is an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's acclaimed novel of the same name.
With inputs
(AW-Jyotishman)
