Enough with the desperate starlets trying to make a name for themselves on the Croisette in skimpy bathing suits — chickens, really. The sexiest breakout star on the Riviera this year is a 101-year-old Portuguese man. Film-snob circles have deified Manoel de Oliveira for years, since he was an nonagenarian at least. For all you Hollywood power types looking to sign the next big thing, here’s your cheat sheet on who is arguably the biggest story of Cannes thus far.
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A Star is Born on the Croisette — and He’s 101 Years Old
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The ever-fascinating, never predictable Wachowski Brothers seem to have taken to bold new levels those recent viral videos of military men stationed in Afghanistan blowing off steam with Lady Gaga and Ke$ha impersonations with news of their purported next feature as co-directors, a hard-R gay Iraqi love story that the chatterati has already nicknamed The Hard Locker , Brokeback Locker and Desert Storm Hearts .
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The Hard Locker: Are the Wachowskis Going Back to Gay Roots in Iraq?
Veronica Callahan’s defibrillators have been shut down. NBC’ s first-season drama Mercy , like its extreme counterpart Trauma , has been canceled . I’m unsurprised with both decisions but only disappointed with Mercy . Taylor Schilling was irreverent but sincere in the lead role, Jaime Lee Kirchner won me over as Nurse Sonia, and Michelle Trachtenberg seemed poised for a full mainstream takeover in her first big network role. And to think how excited this cast was when they found out they were picked up for a back nine — at a strip club . [ THR ]
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Mercy, Trauma Canceled
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Not to be outdone by the inexplicable trend of Shrek -inspired weddings , a young engaged couple named Lynette and James decided that for their engagement photoshoot, they’d take a cue from the suddenly iconic “courtship and marriage” sequence from Pixar’s Up . Enjoy this series of their pictures inspired by the movie, because as we all know, things are about to get real bad in about ten minutes.
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Up-Inspired Engagement Will Only End in Audience Tears
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Dark and queer enough to catch your attention but lacking the story power to hold it, Metropia is an aesthetic in search of an author. The first animated feature from Swedish director Tarik Saleh, Metropia posits a familiar scenario — middle-class male malaise — in a near-future Europe made exotic by its fall into dystopian ruin. The allusions made by the opening titles to the environmental and financial crises that have ostensibly brought Europe together (the countries have been literally connected by an inter-continental subway system) are a little misleading: As they attempt to build a paranoid allegory around the monolithic potential of the European Union, Saleh and writer Fredrik Edin move further and further into the experience of a call-center employee named Roger (voiced by Vincent Gallo). Ultimately this approach shrinks the scope of a setting that seems designed for bigger things.
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REVIEW: Hypnotic, Stop-Motion Metropia Misses the Bigger Picture
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As the 63rd Cannes Film Festival hits its stride this weekend, the international film culture is grappling with some of the most serious issues it has faced in decades. Money is tight, piracy is rampant, a 3-D future looms, and Oliver Stone has a mustache. It’s true: Oliver Stone has a mustache . But should he?
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You Decide: Should Oliver Stone Keep the ‘Stache?
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