Cannes 2012

Now it is time to take in the It is obviously the most respected

film festival in the world. It is fun and chaotic and overwhelming.

think of it as a place to celebrate real fell. -- Filmer. Hello and

welcome it to Cannes 2012. We'll be looking at some of the highlights

of the film festival. We will be speaking to some of the big Names

who made it to the French Riviera year. Cinema from all around the

world. All that and if more were in at Cannes 2012.

What was inescapable this year was that among the films buying for the

top prize, an unusually large number of them had an American

connection. Some of them boasted Hollywood stars. Each of the movies

was driven, not by the dictates of commerce, but by a strong personal

vision. The American picture Moonrise Kingdom opened this year.

Wes Anderson was there on the carpet. His film is set on a New

England island in 1965. It tells the story of two young teenagers

and to the impact their elopement has on an array of characters.

There are some deeper themes. goal is a very isolated in her

family. She wants to break out of that family. The boy in the story

is on his own. His family has died. I feel a personal connection with

their experiences. I am a sparrow. I said, what kind of buried door

you. Wes Anderson is defined by his trademark style. His films really

are his Optus creations. He designs them. He picks the music. He writes

the script. He is the author of every aspect of it. That is very

special. It was Woody Allen and the Coen brothers. People whose films

leap out at you. You are excited for the next one. Wes Anderson has

that kind of relationship with people. They look forward to diving

back into his world. Moonrise Kingdom split opinion. Most critics

find it charming and endearing, others found it pretentious. Some

say it was too whimsical and quaint. What is your response? My response

is, I have a sort of it, people often ask me about my style. I do

not want to change my handwriting. I do not want to try and be

somebody else. This is me as a film-maker. I accept it. It is

subjective. Brad Pitt was back again this year.

He had lined another American film. He played a mob enforcer in the

crime drama, killing them softly. Reese Witherspoon was in the

picture marred. It was seen as a modern take on Huckleberry Finn.

Then it was on the road. It was an adaptation by Jack Kerouac. It

starred Christians to work. There was an erotic thriller by

Nicole Kidman. It was directed by Lee Daniel. Excitement created

Lawless. It was a story of bootlegging gangsters. Guy Pearce

plays a corrupt federal agent. It is set in prohibition era America.

It has long fascinated American film-makers. It is a good a

dramatic period. It was the first of the modern America that we know

today. The policing system changed. The FBI and CIA were created after

theirs. It has a could have energy about it. -- a good energy. It is

told by Anna Australian screenwriter, Nick Cave. They felt

it was a topical story. It is very relevant to today. We have a time

of extreme change. Ridiculous wars. A massive divide between rich and

poor. What of hypocrisy and corruption. The consensus was that

lawlessness to the market little. Some do not like it. One critic

declared it smarm get. It was relentlessly violent. That did not

bother Guy Pearce. They have a real fascination with violence, as I do.

I think the way he handles it is great. I love the way he handles it.

I am always willing to make it work. I do not have any reservations. I

have had them with other people. The style of the film does not

really acquire -- require it to be so extreme.

Cosmopolis was another American film at the Festival. An adaptation

of the novel of the same name starring Robert Pattinson. It is

the day of a life of a billionaire. He is riding in a stretch limousine

to get a haircut. The director's son was also at the Festival with

his own feature film. It is set in the near future, where fans are

infected with the same diseases as the celebrities they worship. They

want to get more intimately connected. Was an idea that came to

me in a fever dream. There was an intimacy to gay connection. -- a

connection. It seemed like an interesting idea to discuss. What

Comment 2 you had the film is making about celebrity culture.

is not making a straight command. You can see the central metaphor in

the Bill as being that by participating in that culture we

make ourselves disease. It is set to recall and critical will stop --

satirical. It is the first time that a father and son have films

and the official line-up in the same year. It is really fantastic.

It is adorable. It is a wonderful image. Anti-viral has interesting

ideas. It is shot with a precise style. Its moments of the grotesque

portrayer elements of his father's style. But he certainly shows

promise. The UK presence at the festival was

thin this year. But Ken Loach was at the Festival with an

uncharacteristically upbeat film. It was called The Angel's Share.

This was the 11th time that he has had a common competition. It is,

the following a troubled young man from Glasgow. He has a talent for

whisky tasting. He is the loving father of an 11-year-old girl. She

retains a refreshing optimism and survives. He was moved by the

experience of the an incredibly functional father-Child Bond.

a relationship I never had. I had a great and loving father and mother.

But I never had anything like that. Also with a key role in the film is

Cillian Murphy. He plays a teacher. He liked the issues touched on in

the film. I enjoyed how it explored what makes a family. People manage

to find family in different ways. It is a well observed and funny

piece of writing. It was that on the page. There is a lot of drama

in this film. It is a traumatic journey. It is a significant film

for British cinema. It symbolises what you want English film to start

being again. Imaginative, but also grounded. Sensitive and

intellectual. It has all of those things. It is just not fair. I do

not care. To he does not care about me. The actress at the heart of

Broken one of ravings for her performance in the film. What back

and do you have been acting? grew up watching all of the best

films. I would always copied and ran around a singing the songs and

acting. There were some complaints that it could have been tidier. But

the deal was well liked. Over the years, Indian cinema has been

under-represented. But this year it was a little different. Four Indian

pictures were shown. They are not standard issue Bollywood song and

dance extravaganzas. There was a spirit of celebration among Indians

at the Festival. A new era had begun. A two-part, five-hour epic

revenge drama was one of the more talked about pictures. For India to

be well representative at the festival was seen as a break

through. It is one of the reasons why India is so excited to have

Indian films by film-makers in recognise. They are not

inaccessible. They either working in the mainstream. These directors

were bringing distinctly non- Bollywood style cinema. Dons that

do not rely on song and dance to drive them. I think for the first

time we are seeing younger film- makers and directors working

outside the Bollywood system. There are many more unique voices. You

have a new economy of independent The emerging on Bollywood cinema

shows that it can have a market outside the time. What about the

long-term prospects Kong? These are inherently Indian films. They are

struggling to get different audiences. They are going out to

audiences with completely different sensibilities. And they are being

picked up for mainstream foreign markets. China's rising prominence

in the international film business was evident in Cannes Film Festival.

So was Jacqui Shand with his new film, Chinese zodiac. He made news

when he announced it would be his last big action movie. A milestone

for a man has made a hundred films and does most of his own stunts.

Last beat action film. I still make movies, not retiring. I am not

retiring. Just, less life risking stunts. Is it dangerous doing what

you're doing on a bigger action movie? Yes it is. Today you have

lots of special effects, but the audience does not like that. They

do not like me being a Spiderman. They want me to risk my life and do

something. But I cannot continue with this, I have been doing it for

50 years. And have to stop at some time. Maybe in the future, I can do

action comedy, this dangerous stunts, more use of special effect.

I hope a director can hire me to do some of the music. I am a good

singer. Bad weather the set Cannes Film Festival, but good news that

the merged with the screening of a French-language film called love.

It is seen as a contender for the top prize. It is a touching story

of an elderly Parisian couple confronting declining health. It is

played by two actors in the 80s. It was directed by an Austrian and

garnered a universal praise. The Oscar-winning Mary-Ann co-chair was

starring in another film called rust and buying. She is a self-

absorbed while trainer and needs another kindred soul. -- meets.

After Stephane's is attacked by a well and loses her legs, they

engage in an intense affair. The graphic sex scenes were there

important for the story she says. It is about Bines, brutality, flesh,

physicality. It was something so important that it was organic.

had been anxious about working with such an esteemed director. I was

intimidated. The actress was so amazing. Why did they ask me? As we

started working, everything became open and so generous. It became one

hell of a ride. With her staff power, rust and Bayern will find an

audience and that will help the career of her co-star be. He has

already been booked to appear in o2 English-language films. France

recently voted for a Socialist president. But politics was largely

absent from the 20 films in competition this year. An Egyptian

picture did not shy away from political change in its country.

TRANSLATION: After the battle, it is set in the aftermath of

tumultuous events that led to eat the departure of Hosni Mubarak. The

key relationship is between an apple and educated woman and a poor

horse man. Here it is a charged political landscape forming the

backdrop to this picture. As a crew, we do not hold political views. We

have something in common, this is what made all these people were,

the film and have the patience to finish it. We have a love for

cinema in Common. In places like to Dave in Egypt, where film is

treated as a sin, making a film is like an act of resistance. Also

standing firm in Cannes Film Festival was Sean Penn doing

consciousness-raising at a party hosted to help fund post it will

quake relief efforts in Haiti. people of Haiti are ready to do it

for themselves. They are without essential material tours. Once that

happens, they consult sustain. They still need a few nuts and bolts. We

have never seen a culture more equipped to receive those and make

greater use of them. Jeremy Irons was at the Festival trying to raise

consciousness as well with trash. We have always buried treasure

starkly, now we sometimes do not dig, we dump. One of two films at

Cannes Film Festival which looked at the dumping of waste. In the

film, he roams the world investigating the problem. Subject

matter that appears to engage him. You see the damage that it does to

our health, and environment. Both with incinerating and burying. We

have to start thinking what is best for our life and society to make us

healthier and happier, and we need to keep bashing at the door. A day

has not display any dazzling feats of film-making, but the narrative

is logical. The opinion of the wasters boating entities was not

heard. Cannot make people change the way they handle their rubbish?

Or I can say is coming to Cannes Film Festival, and getting a

profile for it, is a help. You have have to do. If I can use my

celebrity to help get that message wider, it is silly not to do it.

That brings a look back at some of the highlights of the Cannes Film