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The Best of CannesThe Best of Cannes 2010
These are our picks of the movies and documentaries shown at the Cannes Film Festival over the last two weeks. Hopefully, they will all come to our fair shores.    Uncle Boonmee who can recall his past lives by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. This won the Palme D'or but I just can't recommend it I'm afraid. As one reviewer said "It's one for the cinephile". View the trailer and decide for yourself... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdW-08PN5-k Fair Game starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts On July 6, 2003, four months after the United Stat  es invaded Iraq, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's now historic op-ed, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," appeared in The New York Times. A week later, conservative pundit Robert Novak revealed in his newspaper column that Ambassador Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame Wilson (Naomi Watts), was a covert CIA agent. The public disclosure of that classified information spurred a federal investigation and led to the trial and conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, and the Wilsons' civil suit against top officials of the Bush administration. Much has been written about the "Valerie Plame" story, but Valerie herself has been silent, until now. Some of what has been reported about her has been frighteningly accurate, serving as a pungent reminder to the Wilsons that their lives are no longer private. And some has been completely false - distorted characterizations of Valerie and her husband and their shared integrity. View the Trailer...http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/watch?feature=popular&hl=en&v=obCZYvB9iZE&gl=US Robin Hood. Whether you love or despise Russell Crowe, you have to admit he plays a great action  hero and he sure does look better than Errol Flynn in green tights! Director Ridley Scott and actor Russell Crowe reunite for their fifth big-screen outing, a retelling of the Robin Hood legend featuring the GLADIATOR star in the titular role. A bowman in the army of Richard Coeur de Lion, virtuous rogue Robin Hood rises from an unlikely background to become a hero to the impoverished people of Nottingham and lover to the beautiful Lady Marion (Cate Blanchett). View the trailer...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSqL9ygBCck Of Men and Gods. Actor-director Xavier Beauvois, who made Don’t Forget You Are Going to Die (N’oublie pas que tu vas Mourir) (1995), returns to the Competition this year with Of Men and Gods (Des Hommes et des Dieux ), a drama based on a true story. Of Men and Gods, retraces the abduction and massacre of the monks of Tibhirine in 1996, in the middle of the Algerian civil war. Almost fifteen years have passed since the tragic events that inspired this feature film, but the mystery of the motivations and identity of those responsible remains sealed. The seven Trappist monks of the Tibhirine Monastery, whose leader is played by Lambert Wilson, were abducted in the night of the 26-27 March 1996. Their bodies were found two months later. This horror was initially attributed to the GIA (Groupe Islamique Armé). But in 2009, former General Buchwalter implicated the Algerian army which, he claimed, machine gunned the monks by mistake and afterwards arranged their bodies so as not to be held responsible. (trailer not available yet) Money Never Sleeps. Gordon Gecko is out of prison and at it again (remember Wall Street with  Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen?). Emerging from a lengthy prison stint, Gordon Gekko finds himself on the outside of a world he once dominated. Looking to repair his damaged relationship with his daughter, Gekko forms an alliance with her fiancé Jacob (Shia LaBeouf), and Jacob begins to see him as a father figure. But Jacob learns the hard way that Gekko - still a master manipulator and player - is after something very different from redemption. View the trailer...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1hihEgzmwQ Stones in Exile. Rocker Mick Jagger played to the crowd at the Cannes movie festival, launching a film about the drug-fuelled sessions that yielded the Rolling Stones' classic album Exile on Main Street. He joked about the band's antics in a French villa in 1971 - shown in rarely-seen original footage in the film, which reveals that they had an eight-year-old boy roll marijuana joints for them. "We were young, good-looking and stupid," he told the audience after strutting on stage in a grey suit and shiny silver sports shoes at the screening of film-maker Stephen Kijak's documentary Stones in Exile. View the trailer... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXcqcdYABFw Certified Copy. A romance that leaves the decision making up to you. Juliette Binoche won best  actress for her role. In Italy to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a young French woman (Binoche) and jets off to San Gimignano with her. What initially appears to be a story of a chance meeting between two people quickly becomes something much more. What is going on exactly? Have these two people known each other for 15 years or more? Are they just meeting? Is this even a linear narrative telling one cohesive story or perhaps just a series of vignettes representing all that could take place on a couples' one day tour of Tuscany? teaser trailer... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVRwVadRIbo The Tree. The Tree, which closed the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, is an Australian-French co-production with a story based on a novel by Judy Pascoe that is set in her native Queensland. "It's basically a story of loss,'' says Taylor, ''with a family coping with the death of the husband and father, and an eight-year-old girl who starts to believe her father's spirit lives in the fig tree next to the house and takes great comfort from that.'' Her mother finds her conviction increasingly persuasive until drought sets in and the thirsty tree's roots spread into the drains, bringing the local plumber into the family's lives. Trailer not available yet.
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