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Today the release of the parallel Cannes section poster, perhaps because is a black and white photo or maybe because is an excellent composition but I'm finding 2013 Cannes graphic identity outstanding as the Festival de Cannes poster is amazing and now this section releases another great poster with a great reasoning behind.

Poster 2013

Two persons in the middle of the desert, under a distant western sky.

The epitome of Adventure. Two modern-day cow-boys in a motor vehicle.

Or, why not, the vehicle of two filmmakers scouting locations, who briefly, forget their solitude to confront their experience and their destiny under a Fordain sky.

The Quinzaine des Réalisateurs this year will be a meeting place for creative artists in the midst of desire.

And a series of adventures, comedies and tragedies of today.

Life, indeed, but under skies bigger than life, as Nicholas Ray would put it...Movies, in short.

Edouard Waintrop

The poster for the 2013 Quinzaine des Réalisateurs was based on a photo by Cécile Burban. Michel Welfringer was in charge of the graphic conception.

Now I'm looking forward to see La Semaine poster as hopefully they will keep similar basic graphic identity.

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Today was the award ceremony which was live streamed for a while (suddenly the live stream turned into another TV show!) but truth is that without Cristian Mungiu's Beyond the Hills the awards lost interest for me.

Nevertheless most tech awards went to Undeva La Pilula so imagine that has to get a top award (no announcement yet about top awards).

Winners are in *BLUE and to check winners in all categories you can go to official site (not up yet but will be eventually) or their facebook page here where organizers announced live the winners.

2/26/13
A few moments ago the nominations for the Romanian annual award were announced and to my huge surprise Cristian Mungiu's Beyond the Hills is NOT nominated in any category.

According to news seems Mungiu requested organizers to not consider film, which can be possible due to the many non-positive cinema-related news (crisis) we been reading lately. Obviously the absence of Mungiu's film makes this edition a lot less interesting for me, but nevertheless my love for Romanian cinema (a cinema that I'm really hoping will not go into pause for long) allows me to share the nominations so you can be aware of the great/good Romanian films that maybe we will be able to see, eventually.

Awards ceremony will take place on March 25 at the National Opera in Bucharest and will be broadcast by TV ProCinema.

These are the nominees in top categories that does not include Best Actress this year as there were not enough contenders.

Best Film
Despre oameni şi melci (Of Snails and Men), Tudor Giurgiu
*Toată lumea din familia noastră (Everybody in Our Family), Radu Jude
Undeva La Palilula (Somewhere in Palilula), Silviu Purcărete
Visul Lui Adalbert (Adalbert's Dream), Gabriel Achim

Best Director
Gabriel Achim for Visul Lui Adalbert (Adalbert's Dream)
*Radu Jude for Toată lumea din familia noastră (Everybody in Our Family)
Silviu Purcărete for Visul Lui Adalbert (Adalbert's Dream)
Tudor Giurgiu for Despre oameni şi melci (Of Snails and Men)

Best Actor
Adrian Titieni in Și caii sunt verzi pe pereți (Chasing Rainbows)
Gabriel Spanhiu in Visul Lui Adalbert (Adalbert's Dream)
*Șerban Pavlu in Toată lumea din familia noastră (Everybody in Our Family)

Best Screenplay
Dan Chișu for Și caii sunt verzi pe pereți (Chasing Rainbows)
Gabriel Achim and Cosmin Manolache for Visul Lui Adalbert (Adalbert's Dream)
Ionuţ Teianu for Despre oameni şi melci (Of Snails and Men)
*Radu Jude and Corina Sabau for Toată lumea din familia noastră (Everybody in Our Family)

To check nominees in all categories go here or here, available only in Romanian. Most films seems to be comedies/dramedies but my experience tells me that Romanian (dry) humor is one I can enjoy, hope these movies are more dry than dumb; still Radu Jude's drama is one that I been followed since was screened at the Berlinale. After watching videos got more interested in watching films as some seem to be visually interesting.

Of Snails and Men



Everybody in Our Family



Somewhere in Palilula


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Adalbert's Dream



Chasing Rainbows

Today at the awards ceremony winners were announced and as expected by me, Ursula Meier's Sister won big, including the top award.

Winners are in *BLUE. To check winners in all categories go here.

1/31/13
Last night the Federal Office of Culture announced the contenders for this edition. This official ceremony, known as “Nominations Night”, was held in Solothurn concert hall as part of the Solothurn Film Festival, and signals the countdown to the Swiss Film Award ceremony, which will take place on 23 March 2013 in the Bâtiment des Forces Motrices in Geneva. The guest speakers at the gala event were Federal Councillor Alain Berset, Charles Beer, President of the Executive Council of the canton of Geneva and President of the Association “Quartz” Genève Zürich, and Christian Frei, President of the Swiss Film Academy.

The awards honor ten categories and here are the nominees for the main categories where Rosie by Marcel Gisler got most nominations, 6; with three nods each, Ursula Meier's Sister, Nicolas Wadimoff's Opération Libertad and Werner Swiss Schweizer's Verliebte Feinde. The real surprise is that Sister didn't got the most nominations and that Rosie plus Verliebte Feinde seem to be interesting movies that had skipped my radar.

Best Film
Il Comandante e la Cicogna (The Commander and the Stork), Silvio Soldini
*L’Enfant d’en haut (Sister), Ursula Meier
Opération Libertad, Nicolas Wadimoff
Rosie, Marcel Gisler
Verliebte Feinde (Enemies In Love), Werner Swiss Schweizer

Best Actress
*Sibylle Brunner in Rosie
Mona Petri in Verliebte Feinde
Sabine Timoteo in Cyanure

Best Actor
Fabian Krüger in Rosie
Fabian Krüger in Verliebte Feinde
*Kacey Mottel Klein in L’Enfant d’en haut (Sister)

Best Performance in a Supporting Role
*Antonio Buil in Opération Libertad
Judith Hofmann in Rosie
Sebastian Ledesma in Rosie

Best Screenplay
Nicolas Wadimoff and Jacob Berger for Opération Libertad
Marcel Gisler and Rudolf Nadler for Rosie
*Ursula Meier and Antoine Jaccoud for L’Enfant d’en haut (Sister)

To read nominations in other categories and check info for each film go here.  Suggest to read synopsis for Rosie (has some gay interest) and Verliebte Feinde (protagonists relationship is compared to Beauvoir and Sartre).

Cheers!!!

A few minutes ago the official festival poster was announced with American movie icons Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman in a 1963 photo from the shooting of Melville Shavelson's A New Kind of Love.

The following is what the festival announced about the original photo and the poster.

The original photo

To grace the poster for its 66th edition, the Festival de Cannes has chosen a couple who embody the spirit of cinema like no other: Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, photographed during the shooting of the aptly named A New Kind of Love, by Melville Shavelson (1963).

For the Festival it is a chance both to pay tribute to the memory of Paul Newman, who passed away in 2008, and to mark its undying admiration for Joanne Woodward, his wife and most favored co-star.

They were honored at the Festival de Cannes in 1958 – the year of their marriage – with the selection In Competition of Martin Ritt’s The Long Hot Summer, the first film in which they appeared together. The links between their story and that of the Festival continued with a series of films directed by Newman, who cast Woodward in unforgettable roles in The Effect of the Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Competition – 1973) and The Glass Menagerie (Competition – 1987).

The 2013 Festival Poster

The photograph from the shoot was isolated, remastered and redesigned by the Bronx agency, who added a kinetic element, toying with the impression of movement and depth in order to enhance the cinematographic effect.

The poster evokes a luminous and tender image of the modern couple, intertwined in perfect balance at the heart of the dizzying whirlwind that is love. The vision of these two lovers caught in a vertiginous embrace, oblivious of the world around them, invites us to experience cinema with all the passion of an everlasting desire.

The ★ Bronx agency (Paris) was responsible for all the graphics of the 2013 Festival.

It also created an animated film for the poster, to the soundtrack of a remixed version of the Festival’s musical theme. Arrangements: Olivier Huguenard - Emmanuel Plégat / Sismic Music.



Can't help but share that one film that never has left my memory is The Long Hot Summer, which perhaps is my favorite from the real life husband and wife couple and a film that I highly recommend to see if you haven't seen it yet. My only suggestion is to see it as a period film from a long-gone era.

Because photos are really worth watching, suggest you check the Poster Couple article at official festival site here.

Find the poster interesting, somehow a great portrait from the sixties but believe that the graphic representation in the vertical, horizontal and square materials is very suggestive as we know this is the 66th edition but because the photo chosen seems more a 69 than a 66. Wonder if is on purpose or just my imagination.