16 centrespread centrespread 17 MAY 12-18, 2013 MAY 12-18, 2013 Grand Prix

Up for Palme d’Or Palme d’Or du Court Metrage Grabs Prix du Jury Freeze Frame Some of the major Starting May 15, Cannes will be wrapped in a fine gossamer of glamour and glitz for 12 days. awards include Not to forget edgy films. The festival is still a big draw. ET Magazine finds out why Best Actor Text: Yusuf Begg | Design: Mukesh In the Fray are... Best Actress Best Screenplay

Flashback Who would have thought that a festival which would Inside Llewyn Davis Only Lovers Left Alive Young & Beautiful Venus in Fur Behind the Candelebra last just one evening in its inaugural year Baz Luhrmann Jim Jarmusch Francois Ozon (1939) would today become the most prestigious of them all? Post-WW II, the festival re-emerged for a second innings in 1946. And what a line-up of films: ’s Notorious, ’s , The Lost Weekend by , ’s Open City and Chetan Anand’s Neecha Nagar (the only Indian film to get a best film award at Cannes).

The Palme d’Or was instituted in 1955, with Delbert Mann’s being the first winner. Over the years Cannes has morphed from a film forum and social event to a more international bazaar for distribution. However, even today it ...And remains a “by invitation only” event. the Jury

Break With Tradition The BB The opening film is Phenomenon usually one that has its Vidya Balan world premiere at The Prince & The cascading blonde Cannes. This year’s the Showgirl hair, the dark eyes, opening-night slot has Booted Out the pout, the just-out- gone to Baz Luhrmann’s In 1955 the French The Great Gatsby. It has government invited Last year, Danish Namaste of-bed look... Brigitte Christoph Waltz Bardot, the child- already had its to Cannes director Lars von Trier woman, took Cannes premiere on Friday, where her film The was asked to leave the Naomi Kawase The festival will pay by storm in 1955. She May 10. Rumours have Country Girl was to festival after jokingly homage to 100 years of was an unheralded it that the film’s star be screened. Thanks calling himself a “Nazi Lynne Ramsay power — Leonardo sympathiser”. The Indian cinema. Expect a number of Indian actors to walk actor with half a to Pierre Galante, a Daniel Auteuil dozen films or so DiCaprio, Tobey journalist, she was board of directors the red carpet. Leading them will be under her belt and Maguire, Carey introduced to Prince called the comments Soderbergh’s Cristian Mungiu And God Created Mulligan, , Rainier III of Monaco. “contrary to ideals Swan Song invited for the opening film. The world premiere of Woman still a couple Jason Clarke and Isla Thus began a fairy- of humanity” The festival organisers have managed to convince of years away. But Fisher — would give the tale romance, which and declared American director Steven Soderbergh to enter his Bombay Talkies will take place on the Promenade de la her sex appeal had red carpet a lot of glitz led to a globally him persona “last” film – Behind the Candelabra — in the competition the paparazzi and publicity. Also the televised marriage. non grata. He section. Soderbergh has announced his retirement from Croisette. Other films to be screened are Anurag drooling over her. book’s author F Scott Their wedding took was Palme filmmaking and wants to concentrate on his new She was perhaps the Fitzgerald is reported to place on the eve of d’Or winner passion, painting. His Sex, Lies and Videotape — a Palme Kashyap’s Ugly, Dabba by Ritesh Batra and first to give the have finished the iconic the opening of in 2000. d’Or winner in 1989 — heralded a new wave of indie festival its SA. novel in south of France. Cannes festival. Amit Kumar’s Monsoon Shootout. filmmaking in the US.