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On this second day Festival Cannnes, boiled, the focus has been a slight move, as it has been the official section which has aroused the attention, but the parallel section and normally reserved films increased risk , Un Certain Regard. And the edition of this year such section opened with The Bling Ring , Sofia Coppola. And all this new film director, like it or not, always arouses expectation. In fact, despite the rain, the tail of the salle Debussy, where she appeared, turned at the corner of the street, and many viewers have not had access to the premiere.

On The Bling Ring, Sofia Coppola seems to show the back of his films, without decentralize its focus: if during his career has analyzed the fame and luxury, but from its epicenter, from his experience, this time we move to opposite side, the aspiration of luxury. And, based on a real story, emerging from Variety magazine, Coppola has filmed a number of young people who are out to steal in houses of their favorite celebrities in Los Angeles, keeping the stolen objects as fetishes. Although the director has driven a transformation between reality and the final film:

I changed the names of the characters so that young people do not become more known. Met two or three, it was fascinating to listen to tell your story with all the details. One girl wanted at all costs to see Paris Hilton's dog. That is not invented!

The Bling Ring is a film set in the most populous city in California but it speaks, in fact, throughout the U.S., for that aspiration to the virtuality of fame, sickly almost to a point. It aims to analyze the relationship of dependency is created between fan and celebrity, and sometimes becomes a subtext of U.S. ideology, based on success:

Los Angeles plays an essential role in American culture. This is shown this movie: a world of celebrities, reality TV. This story could not have happened elsewhere. These children lived very close to these stars.

And Emma Watson stars in this film, leaving the world of Harry Potter to dive, well, at the ends of the Mythomania. And indeed, seems to have gotten separated from its magical character to acquire another frivolous tone and more disillusioned, we will see if he can channel his career better than his castmates youth of JK Rowling's saga:

It is strange to me. I have the impression that Harry Potter is in the past. Is still present, still in people's heads. Do not attempt to deny the work I've done for the past three or four years, my life has been amazing. I delight starring different characters, I have a lot of luck.

Jeune et Jolie, François Ozon

But while Sofia Coppola takes the spotlight, is the French director François Ozon who has garnered more positive reviews of the festival. His erotic drama, about a 17 year old student by day and night luxury prostitute seems channeled into the path of Belle de Jour, Luis Buñuel, in dissecting a double life that is, at once, the only possibility of merging two aspects of the self. This sustained in a hypnotic visual style that characterizes him when in a state of grace. A state that seems to accompany lately, after signing the masterpiece that is Dans la maison (In the house). And thus aims idealize adolescence, approaching it with more sleaze rather than a fascination with the freedom that can be experienced:

Often adolescence is idealized in world cinema, is the exaggerated praises. I keep a memory rather painful and difficult of my own adolescence. I wanted to approach it from a distance to talk about it differently.

And this girl is dipped gradually into a world where it is psychologically tortured, but that fits through a conversion into a being cold, a cold eroticism. Ozon has spoken of these turning points in life:

What I think is essential to address the difficulties of life, such as discovering a problem like this, is to accept that there has been a break. We must say to yourself: "I will not judge what happened but I have to accept that something is broken."

And his muse has been Marine Vacth, professional model who has decided to jump into the cinema screens to get Ozon:
When I saw a Marine, then I felt different from the others, which addressed the role from a very realistic prism. I had the feeling of being in a documentary. With Marine, something entirely different happened. When looking at his eyes, there was an inner world, a mystery and that was exactly what I was looking for the film.

Hedi

And from Mexico comes Hedi, Amat Escalante, a story about the violence in Mexico, which portrays the manager from a progressive descent into hell. A fall that aims to show the dialectic between the individual and a society that fails to adapt:

I wanted to analyze violence to its context, and not just show ... emphasize that there are people who cause them and others who witness. I wanted to show this violence as it is and to film an unprecedented to attract public attention.

Critics have found a clear influence of the style of Carlos Reygadas, with its visceral images, and is a fixture in Cannes too. But it is difficult to point this out when Reygadas himself seems to show a different style in each film. Escalante has resorted to a stark portrait of the violence and some neorealism to analyze, through the story of a family, its inevitable connection to violence.

Admission Cannes 2013: Sofia Coppola wins the audience, Ozon criticism appears first in Extracine .

Rarely it happens that in the premieres of billboard we find Spanish cinema both as an American, but this is one of those weeks. And even more so if we consider that Tony Gatlif's film unfolds largely in Spain. These are the Billboard releases for the weekend beginning 17 May.

• The Great Gatsby (USA & Australia, 2013) Genre: drama, romantic Address: Baz Luhrmann Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, Elizabeth Debicki, Amitabh Bachchan, Jason Clarke, Adelaide Clemens, Max Cullen , Steve Bisley, Richard Carter, Vince Colosimo, Brendan Maclean, Kate Mulvany Plot: Nick Carraway is a man like Fitzgerald who aspires to be a writer, as it leaves the central region of the U.S. and arrives in New York in the spring of 1922, a time of moral decay and pulsating jazz kings of bootlegging. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick ends up being a neighbor of Jay Gatsby, a millionaire mysterious continually gives parties. Across the bay live his cousin, Daisy, and her philandering husband and aristocrat, Tom Buchanan. Thus Nick enters the captivating world of the super rich with their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness to that, both inside and outside the world he inhabits, write a story of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and great tragedies, and raises a mirror to our own time and current struggles. Extracine: trailer 1 trailer 2 | version 1974 | soundtrack | review

• The cosmonaut (Spain, 2013) Genre: drama, science fiction Director: Nicolas Alcala Starring: Katrine of Candole, Leon Ockenden, Max Wrottesley, Greg Blackford, Steve Galache Argument: in 1975, the first Russian cosmonaut to the moon came got back. He was reported missing in space. He, however, through ghostly radio messages, says it has returned to Earth, but found the empty, not a soul. Its unreal presence and voice will gradually destroying the world of their loved ones.

• The Lords of Salem (USA, 2012) Genre: brill, terror Address: Rob Zombie Starring: Sheri Moon Zombie, Christopher Knight, Dee Wallace, Clint Howard, Udo Kier, Barbara Crampton, Maria Conchita Alonso, Lisa Marie, Sid Haig, Bruce Davison, Michael Berryman, Meg Foster, Billy Drago, Patricia Queen, Ken Foree, Judy Geeson, Bonita Friedericy, Daniel Roebuck, Richard Lynch, Torsten Voges Argument: Heidi is a DJ at a radio station in Salem, Masachussetts, one day receives a mysterious wooden box containing a vinyl record, "a gift from The Lords". Heidi hears strange sounds and their furrows arise immediately trigger flashbacks of Salem's violent past. Is Heidi going crazy, or is that the Lords of Salem intend to return to avenge the current Salem? Extracine: Trailer | Review

• The last island (Spain, 2012) Genre: drama Direction: Dácil Perez de Guzman Starring: Julieta Serrano, Antonio Dechent, Eduardo Velasco, Carmen Sánchez, Maite Sandoval, Xavier Boada, Virginia Avila, Lucy Perales, Paul Perales Plot: Alice is a spoiled and selfish girl who is crazy about video games. As her parents work and nobody cares about her, her mother decides to send her to an island where old Aunt Belinda lives. No running water or electricity, by the sea and at the foot of volcano, Alicia fears that the holidays are a bore. In addition, it is rumored that her aunt is a witch, there is a man chasing dragons and two very strange. Something mysterious and magnetic fields emanating from the mountain.

• Dark Tide (USA, 2012) Genre: drama, adventure Director: John Stockwell Starring: Halle Berry, Olivier Martinez, Ralph Brown, Luke Tyler, Mark Elderkin, Thoko Ctshinga Argument: nine years after being attacked by a great white shark, Brady a diving instructor, decides to confront the fear and go deep sea diving with the great shark when you make an offer irresistible to swim with sharks.

• Outraged (France, 2012) Genre: drama, documentary Address: Tony Gatlif Cast: Isabel Cortes Vendrell Argument texts inspired by Stéphane Hessel, focuses on the protest movement that swept across Europe in 2011 from the point of view of an illegal immigrant about his experiences within the movement. Extracine: outraged at the movies

• Kawboy (Holland, 2012) Genre: drama Direction: Boudewijn Koole Starring: Rick Lens, Loek Peters, Susan Radder, Cahit Ölmez, Ricky Koole Argument: Jojo is about ten years old and lives with his father, often absent due to work. According to Jojo, his mother - an American country singer, is on tour. His father does not pass a good time and a precocious Jojo between independence and the need for containment.

• Ali (Spain, 2011) Genre: drama Direction: Paco R. Bathrooms Cast: Nadia de Santiago, Veronica invaded, Adrián Lamana, Luis Marco, Julian Villagran, Angy Fernandez, Clara Vazquez, Adrian Pino Argument: Alicia lives in "the land of Ali", a place where there is fragile and vulnerable. She's eighteen, a mother, two friends, a neighbor and a job in a supermarket. Although thinks he controls everything now Ali is in love and has to dare to leave the country to look out the country Ali Alice. Extracine: critical

The entrance billboard premieres Spain: Spanish film and indignant against Gatsby appears first in Extracine .

I can not help it. I love the sense of humor of Lars Von Trier. After various promotional pieces that has given us of his next film and the quote that we proposed for this Thursday, May 16th, the official site of Nymphomaniac remains exactly the same, but on his Facebook page have posted a fabulous and inspiring studio photography where we can see Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, Jamie Bell, Udo Kier, Uma Thurman, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Willem Dafoe, Mia Goth, Stellan Skarsgård, Christian Slater, Nicolas Bro, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Connie Nielsen in attitude to give us everything we were promised.

Outside are Jean-Marc Barr, Caroline Goodall, Kate Ashfield, Saskia Reeves, Hugo Speer, Felicity Gilbert, Michaël Pas, Jesper Christensen, Jens Albinus, Cyron Melville, Shanti Roney, Omar Shargawi, Tania Carlin, Severin von Hoensbroech, Peter Gilbert Cotton and many others who round out the cast of the film. Actually, there's someone else, Lars Von Trier himself appears alongside Jamie Bell, and with the mouth well covered with tape, in what seems to me a clear commitment never to appear before the press. At least certainly not in Cannes.

And along with this brand new image proposes a new appointment. If Copenhagen can enjoy with the premiere of Nymphomaniac in early December, Christmas Day, December 25, all Danish families will be pleased to go together to the cinema to see Nymphomaniac. At the end of the day can be seen as a family film that begins with the birth of a child, following its evolution to become a woman of 50 years. That is sick and is diagnosed as a nymphomaniac herself, is another matter to consider. And after all we have already been told there will be two versions, one other softcore and hardcore, so the same can go see one with the children, and the other and only with friends. Do not?

Admission In Denmark premiere will enjoy the Christmas Nymphomaniac first appears in Extracine .