:00:21. > :00:26.Now it is time to take in the It is obviously the most respected
:00:26. > :00:36.film festival in the world. It is fun and chaotic and overwhelming.
:00:36. > :00:43.think of it as a place to celebrate real fell. -- Filmer. Hello and
:00:43. > :00:47.welcome it to Cannes 2012. We'll be looking at some of the highlights
:00:47. > :00:57.of the film festival. We will be speaking to some of the big Names
:00:57. > :01:07.who made it to the French Riviera year. Cinema from all around the
:01:07. > :01:07.
:01:07. > :01:11.world. All that and if more were in at Cannes 2012.
:01:11. > :01:17.What was inescapable this year was that among the films buying for the
:01:17. > :01:23.top prize, an unusually large number of them had an American
:01:23. > :01:31.connection. Some of them boasted Hollywood stars. Each of the movies
:01:31. > :01:37.was driven, not by the dictates of commerce, but by a strong personal
:01:37. > :01:47.vision. The American picture Moonrise Kingdom opened this year.
:01:47. > :01:48.
:01:48. > :01:53.Wes Anderson was there on the carpet. His film is set on a New
:01:53. > :01:57.England island in 1965. It tells the story of two young teenagers
:01:57. > :02:04.and to the impact their elopement has on an array of characters.
:02:04. > :02:13.There are some deeper themes. goal is a very isolated in her
:02:13. > :02:21.family. She wants to break out of that family. The boy in the story
:02:21. > :02:31.is on his own. His family has died. I feel a personal connection with
:02:31. > :02:33.
:02:33. > :02:43.their experiences. I am a sparrow. I said, what kind of buried door
:02:43. > :02:44.
:02:44. > :02:49.you. Wes Anderson is defined by his trademark style. His films really
:02:49. > :02:55.are his Optus creations. He designs them. He picks the music. He writes
:02:55. > :03:05.the script. He is the author of every aspect of it. That is very
:03:05. > :03:11.
:03:11. > :03:16.special. It was Woody Allen and the Coen brothers. People whose films
:03:16. > :03:20.leap out at you. You are excited for the next one. Wes Anderson has
:03:20. > :03:26.that kind of relationship with people. They look forward to diving
:03:26. > :03:33.back into his world. Moonrise Kingdom split opinion. Most critics
:03:33. > :03:41.find it charming and endearing, others found it pretentious. Some
:03:41. > :03:50.say it was too whimsical and quaint. What is your response? My response
:03:51. > :03:55.is, I have a sort of it, people often ask me about my style. I do
:03:55. > :04:01.not want to change my handwriting. I do not want to try and be
:04:01. > :04:10.somebody else. This is me as a film-maker. I accept it. It is
:04:10. > :04:16.subjective. Brad Pitt was back again this year.
:04:16. > :04:21.He had lined another American film. He played a mob enforcer in the
:04:21. > :04:26.crime drama, killing them softly. Reese Witherspoon was in the
:04:26. > :04:33.picture marred. It was seen as a modern take on Huckleberry Finn.
:04:33. > :04:38.Then it was on the road. It was an adaptation by Jack Kerouac. It
:04:38. > :04:46.starred Christians to work. There was an erotic thriller by
:04:46. > :04:54.Nicole Kidman. It was directed by Lee Daniel. Excitement created
:04:54. > :05:01.Lawless. It was a story of bootlegging gangsters. Guy Pearce
:05:01. > :05:05.plays a corrupt federal agent. It is set in prohibition era America.
:05:05. > :05:11.It has long fascinated American film-makers. It is a good a
:05:11. > :05:18.dramatic period. It was the first of the modern America that we know
:05:18. > :05:28.today. The policing system changed. The FBI and CIA were created after
:05:28. > :05:29.
:05:29. > :05:34.theirs. It has a could have energy about it. -- a good energy. It is
:05:34. > :05:42.told by Anna Australian screenwriter, Nick Cave. They felt
:05:42. > :05:48.it was a topical story. It is very relevant to today. We have a time
:05:48. > :05:58.of extreme change. Ridiculous wars. A massive divide between rich and
:05:58. > :06:01.
:06:01. > :06:04.poor. What of hypocrisy and corruption. The consensus was that
:06:04. > :06:14.lawlessness to the market little. Some do not like it. One critic
:06:14. > :06:22.declared it smarm get. It was relentlessly violent. That did not
:06:22. > :06:28.bother Guy Pearce. They have a real fascination with violence, as I do.
:06:28. > :06:36.I think the way he handles it is great. I love the way he handles it.
:06:36. > :06:43.I am always willing to make it work. I do not have any reservations. I
:06:43. > :06:53.have had them with other people. The style of the film does not
:06:53. > :06:54.
:06:54. > :06:58.really acquire -- require it to be so extreme.
:06:58. > :07:04.Cosmopolis was another American film at the Festival. An adaptation
:07:04. > :07:09.of the novel of the same name starring Robert Pattinson. It is
:07:09. > :07:19.the day of a life of a billionaire. He is riding in a stretch limousine
:07:19. > :07:24.to get a haircut. The director's son was also at the Festival with
:07:24. > :07:28.his own feature film. It is set in the near future, where fans are
:07:28. > :07:35.infected with the same diseases as the celebrities they worship. They
:07:35. > :07:45.want to get more intimately connected. Was an idea that came to
:07:45. > :07:48.
:07:48. > :07:55.me in a fever dream. There was an intimacy to gay connection. -- a
:07:56. > :08:02.connection. It seemed like an interesting idea to discuss. What
:08:02. > :08:09.Comment 2 you had the film is making about celebrity culture.
:08:09. > :08:14.is not making a straight command. You can see the central metaphor in
:08:14. > :08:22.the Bill as being that by participating in that culture we
:08:22. > :08:32.make ourselves disease. It is set to recall and critical will stop --
:08:32. > :08:32.
:08:32. > :08:38.satirical. It is the first time that a father and son have films
:08:38. > :08:48.and the official line-up in the same year. It is really fantastic.
:08:48. > :08:49.
:08:49. > :08:57.It is adorable. It is a wonderful image. Anti-viral has interesting
:08:57. > :09:03.ideas. It is shot with a precise style. Its moments of the grotesque
:09:03. > :09:13.portrayer elements of his father's style. But he certainly shows
:09:13. > :09:17.promise. The UK presence at the festival was
:09:17. > :09:24.thin this year. But Ken Loach was at the Festival with an
:09:24. > :09:31.uncharacteristically upbeat film. It was called The Angel's Share.
:09:31. > :09:36.This was the 11th time that he has had a common competition. It is,
:09:36. > :09:46.the following a troubled young man from Glasgow. He has a talent for
:09:46. > :09:50.
:09:50. > :09:59.whisky tasting. He is the loving father of an 11-year-old girl. She
:09:59. > :10:04.retains a refreshing optimism and survives. He was moved by the
:10:04. > :10:11.experience of the an incredibly functional father-Child Bond.
:10:11. > :10:18.a relationship I never had. I had a great and loving father and mother.
:10:18. > :10:23.But I never had anything like that. Also with a key role in the film is
:10:23. > :10:32.Cillian Murphy. He plays a teacher. He liked the issues touched on in
:10:32. > :10:39.the film. I enjoyed how it explored what makes a family. People manage
:10:39. > :10:49.to find family in different ways. It is a well observed and funny
:10:49. > :10:51.
:10:51. > :10:59.piece of writing. It was that on the page. There is a lot of drama
:10:59. > :11:05.in this film. It is a traumatic journey. It is a significant film
:11:05. > :11:12.for British cinema. It symbolises what you want English film to start
:11:12. > :11:18.being again. Imaginative, but also grounded. Sensitive and
:11:18. > :11:25.intellectual. It has all of those things. It is just not fair. I do
:11:25. > :11:31.not care. To he does not care about me. The actress at the heart of
:11:31. > :11:41.Broken one of ravings for her performance in the film. What back
:11:41. > :11:43.
:11:43. > :11:49.and do you have been acting? grew up watching all of the best
:11:49. > :11:56.films. I would always copied and ran around a singing the songs and
:11:56. > :12:05.acting. There were some complaints that it could have been tidier. But
:12:05. > :12:11.the deal was well liked. Over the years, Indian cinema has been
:12:11. > :12:17.under-represented. But this year it was a little different. Four Indian
:12:17. > :12:25.pictures were shown. They are not standard issue Bollywood song and
:12:25. > :12:35.dance extravaganzas. There was a spirit of celebration among Indians
:12:35. > :12:37.
:12:37. > :12:45.at the Festival. A new era had begun. A two-part, five-hour epic
:12:45. > :12:50.revenge drama was one of the more talked about pictures. For India to
:12:50. > :12:58.be well representative at the festival was seen as a break
:12:58. > :13:01.through. It is one of the reasons why India is so excited to have
:13:01. > :13:10.Indian films by film-makers in recognise. They are not
:13:10. > :13:13.inaccessible. They either working in the mainstream. These directors
:13:13. > :13:17.were bringing distinctly non- Bollywood style cinema. Dons that
:13:17. > :13:21.do not rely on song and dance to drive them. I think for the first
:13:21. > :13:30.time we are seeing younger film- makers and directors working
:13:30. > :13:40.outside the Bollywood system. There are many more unique voices. You
:13:40. > :13:48.
:13:48. > :13:52.have a new economy of independent The emerging on Bollywood cinema
:13:52. > :14:01.shows that it can have a market outside the time. What about the
:14:01. > :14:06.long-term prospects Kong? These are inherently Indian films. They are
:14:06. > :14:10.struggling to get different audiences. They are going out to
:14:10. > :14:19.audiences with completely different sensibilities. And they are being
:14:19. > :14:25.picked up for mainstream foreign markets. China's rising prominence
:14:25. > :14:30.in the international film business was evident in Cannes Film Festival.
:14:30. > :14:36.So was Jacqui Shand with his new film, Chinese zodiac. He made news
:14:36. > :14:42.when he announced it would be his last big action movie. A milestone
:14:42. > :14:51.for a man has made a hundred films and does most of his own stunts.
:14:51. > :15:01.Last beat action film. I still make movies, not retiring. I am not
:15:01. > :15:03.
:15:03. > :15:11.retiring. Just, less life risking stunts. Is it dangerous doing what
:15:11. > :15:14.you're doing on a bigger action movie? Yes it is. Today you have
:15:14. > :15:20.lots of special effects, but the audience does not like that. They
:15:20. > :15:26.do not like me being a Spiderman. They want me to risk my life and do
:15:26. > :15:36.something. But I cannot continue with this, I have been doing it for
:15:36. > :15:39.
:15:39. > :15:48.50 years. And have to stop at some time. Maybe in the future, I can do
:15:48. > :15:55.action comedy, this dangerous stunts, more use of special effect.
:15:55. > :16:05.I hope a director can hire me to do some of the music. I am a good
:16:05. > :16:14.
:16:14. > :16:19.singer. Bad weather the set Cannes Film Festival, but good news that
:16:19. > :16:25.the merged with the screening of a French-language film called love.
:16:25. > :16:33.It is seen as a contender for the top prize. It is a touching story
:16:33. > :16:39.of an elderly Parisian couple confronting declining health. It is
:16:39. > :16:46.played by two actors in the 80s. It was directed by an Austrian and
:16:46. > :16:53.garnered a universal praise. The Oscar-winning Mary-Ann co-chair was
:16:53. > :17:03.starring in another film called rust and buying. She is a self-
:17:03. > :17:04.
:17:04. > :17:11.absorbed while trainer and needs another kindred soul. -- meets.
:17:11. > :17:20.After Stephane's is attacked by a well and loses her legs, they
:17:20. > :17:27.engage in an intense affair. The graphic sex scenes were there
:17:27. > :17:37.important for the story she says. It is about Bines, brutality, flesh,
:17:37. > :17:42.
:17:42. > :17:50.physicality. It was something so important that it was organic.
:17:50. > :17:57.had been anxious about working with such an esteemed director. I was
:17:57. > :18:06.intimidated. The actress was so amazing. Why did they ask me? As we
:18:07. > :18:13.started working, everything became open and so generous. It became one
:18:13. > :18:20.hell of a ride. With her staff power, rust and Bayern will find an
:18:20. > :18:24.audience and that will help the career of her co-star be. He has
:18:24. > :18:31.already been booked to appear in o2 English-language films. France
:18:31. > :18:35.recently voted for a Socialist president. But politics was largely
:18:35. > :18:42.absent from the 20 films in competition this year. An Egyptian
:18:42. > :18:49.picture did not shy away from political change in its country.
:18:49. > :18:54.TRANSLATION: After the battle, it is set in the aftermath of
:18:54. > :19:00.tumultuous events that led to eat the departure of Hosni Mubarak. The
:19:00. > :19:10.key relationship is between an apple and educated woman and a poor
:19:10. > :19:16.horse man. Here it is a charged political landscape forming the
:19:16. > :19:22.backdrop to this picture. As a crew, we do not hold political views. We
:19:22. > :19:29.have something in common, this is what made all these people were,
:19:29. > :19:35.the film and have the patience to finish it. We have a love for
:19:35. > :19:43.cinema in Common. In places like to Dave in Egypt, where film is
:19:43. > :19:48.treated as a sin, making a film is like an act of resistance. Also
:19:48. > :19:53.standing firm in Cannes Film Festival was Sean Penn doing
:19:53. > :19:58.consciousness-raising at a party hosted to help fund post it will
:19:58. > :20:04.quake relief efforts in Haiti. people of Haiti are ready to do it
:20:04. > :20:13.for themselves. They are without essential material tours. Once that
:20:13. > :20:18.happens, they consult sustain. They still need a few nuts and bolts. We
:20:18. > :20:23.have never seen a culture more equipped to receive those and make
:20:23. > :20:29.greater use of them. Jeremy Irons was at the Festival trying to raise
:20:29. > :20:37.consciousness as well with trash. We have always buried treasure
:20:37. > :20:40.starkly, now we sometimes do not dig, we dump. One of two films at
:20:40. > :20:45.Cannes Film Festival which looked at the dumping of waste. In the
:20:45. > :20:51.film, he roams the world investigating the problem. Subject
:20:51. > :20:58.matter that appears to engage him. You see the damage that it does to
:20:58. > :21:02.our health, and environment. Both with incinerating and burying. We
:21:02. > :21:12.have to start thinking what is best for our life and society to make us
:21:12. > :21:16.healthier and happier, and we need to keep bashing at the door. A day
:21:16. > :21:24.has not display any dazzling feats of film-making, but the narrative
:21:24. > :21:28.is logical. The opinion of the wasters boating entities was not
:21:28. > :21:34.heard. Cannot make people change the way they handle their rubbish?
:21:34. > :21:44.Or I can say is coming to Cannes Film Festival, and getting a
:21:44. > :21:44.
:21:44. > :21:54.profile for it, is a help. You have have to do. If I can use my
:21:54. > :22:01.
:22:01. > :22:05.celebrity to help get that message wider, it is silly not to do it.
:22:05. > :22:10.That brings a look back at some of the highlights of the Cannes Film