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Tue, May 14, 2024 – Sat, May 25, 2024 Cannes Festival News and Dailies I Cannes Market Dailies I Les Dailies du Festival I Les News du Marché
2023 Full coverage I 2022 Full coverage Festival / Market I 2021 Full coverage / Sample of newsletters ARCHIVES: Video gallery I Image gallery I Conference Future of Cinema in Cannes I PROMOTE YOUR FILM I VIDEO SERVICES IN CANNES Filmfestivals.com has become the number 1 online media on cannes with 1300 articles published for the 3 past editions. 10 newsletters reaching close to 2 M film professionals...In competition: "Synecdoche, New York" by Charlie KaufmanThe film: For his first feature as director, Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman was selected for the Festival de Cannes Competition in the running for the Palme d'Or, but he is also eligible for the Caméra d’Or. He came to the Croisette once before, with Michel Gondry's film Human Nature (2001), on which he was the screenwriter. Synecdoche, New York is another example of his eccentric and playful vision, a systematic mise en abîme of the life of theater director Caden, anti-hero and directorial alter ego pal. Abandoned by his wife, Caden is mulling over his unhappiness and despair. But then he moves his theater company to a warehouse in New York City for a gigantic artistic enterprise: he imagines a celebration of the mundane, in which each actor must construct an artificial life for himself in a setting imitating the city outside. "I'm interested in dreams," Kaufman confided, "and the way we tell ourselves stories in a dream. Let me make it clear that this film isn't a dream, but it does have a dreamlike logic. In a dream, you may start to fly and it doesn't seem unusual to you. Your reaction is not at all like the one you'd have if you were awake in the normal world. You have to accept everything that happens in the film the way it comes. Of course it's something that wouldn't happen in real life – we're in a film!" Press conference: Writer Charlie Kaufman is in Cannes with Synecdoche, New York which marks his directorial début. Accompanying him into the press room were actors Catherine Keener, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Tom Noonan, and Philip Seymour Hoffman and producers Anthony Bregman and Spike Jonze. Excerpts from what was said follow. Charlie Kaufman on the difficult title: On working with the first-time helmer: Philip Seymour Hoffman: Charlie Kaufmann on making his first film: Director Spike Jonze on having worked previously with Charlie as his screenwriter [Being John Malkovich]: 25.05.2008 | Cannes's blog Cat. : Charlie Kaufman New York Synecdoche
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