Cannes opens with Wes Anderson's 'charming evocation of childhood'

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Sunrise is the first of 22 films competing for the Palme d'Or, none of which was made by the directors of the women

The Cannes Film Festival began its issue No. 65, as usual, with a Hollywood blockbuster, or the latest in 3D animation, but with a sweet and charming, the evocation of childhood, sometimes dark by the American director Wes Anderson Independent - whose own childhood provided some materials for this look wrong in the first innocent love

As a child, the director of Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, he said, he found a brochure entitled Making children face many problems in the refrigerator. "I was not the only child in the house, but I knew that the child with many problems. If my brothers had found did not look at themselves. "The pamphlet appeared in the United Sunrise in the hands of 12 years, Suzy, making a bid for freedom from the family home armed with a suitcase full book of short stories and a couple of leftists scissors.

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More than that, the film, an adventure for children young woman shaped, cut through the disappointments and tedium of adult life, using "the memory of what I wanted which is come, and the memory of the emotion of falling in love as a child, which is something that has never left me, and I hope that people share, "said Anderson.

The story is set in a rock, pine emphasizes sparsely populated island off the coast of New England in 1965. There are no roads and only a policeman in this idyllic island (in a clever casting the lone cop played by Bruce Willis movie, Hardman, who, as co-stars Bill Murray said, it's time "have their time Die Hard"). Things go wrong when Sam, a child camping with a group of Scouts, has been missing. The same goes for Susan, the daughter of local family of Bishops (played by Murray and Frances McDormand).

parts with stars, the film also stars Edward Norton as the scoutmaster unfortunate, but well-meaning, and Tilda Swinton as a person who shows just up, and is known as Services social. These top-flight players were forced to provide, according to Norton, "our own hair and makeup and costumes." No trailers or "traps" of Hollywood film making. Instead, he says , was "like a summer camp. Wes plays I'm in the film as a scoutmaster, walked with us through our skills and leads to an adventure." According to Swinton, the experience was "like being invited to a family wedding."

• But the film really belongs to children, newcomers Jared Gillman and Kara Hayward. The search for the couple took months and thousands of auditions. Thirteen years immediately impressed Hayward said Anderson, with his uncanny ability to sound "like I did the dialogue itself." In one of the states most self-possessed by an actor made his debut in Cannes, Gillman, also 13, said he had "clicked at some point in elementary school, I'd be an actor."

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Lever was the first film to screen in competition for the Palme in 2012. Another 21 are coming in the next two weeks. It's a good year for European Cannes favorite authors: only British hope of Ken Loach, Michael Haneke and Cristian Mungiu are in the race, with David Cronenberg and Abbas Kiarostami. Stars like Nicole Kidman, Brad Pitt, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson will tread the red carpet.

But on a sour note has been battered by the fact that no woman in the alignment of the competition. According to the British director Andrea Arnold, whose films Red Road and Fishbowl has been exhibited in previous festivals, and sat on the jury for this year: "It's a shame, because women are half the population and voice have to say about the world that would be good for us all to hear. "

But he added:. "I hate when my film was selected because I was a woman who just want my film to be selected for the right reasons, not out of charity, because I was a woman."
juror, the actor, Diane Kruger, added: "Last year I came here with a film directed by a woman who won a prize, I get women are printing welcome here. "He was referring to Lily Fabienne Berthaud, sometimes, which was screened at the Festival Fortnight sidebar. Competition last year featured four films Home by women, including British director Lynne Ramsay.

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