What a Rush! Cannes Film Festival May 21 Report
Friday May 21, 2004
Geoffrey Rush stars in the lead role in one of today's showings, The Life & Death of Peter Sellers. In this movie that traces the prolific British comic's life, he is joined by Charlize Theron, Emily Watson, Stanley Tucci (as Stanley Kubrick) and John Lithgow (as Blake Edwards). The film, in competition, will be screened today at 2:30 and 7:00 p.m. France time. Find out more about Peter Sellers with these resources on the About.com Comedy Movies site. Also be sure to visit my Cannes Film Festival 2004 Coverage page for a photo gallery, daily reports and a complete film list.
Films also showing today are:
- Clean, directed by Olivier Assayas, in competition, 11:30 a.m. and 10 p.m. This French film about a women who has to clean up to get her son back from her in-laws stars Jeanne Balibar and Nick Nolte.
- Breaking News, Johnnie To, out of competition, 12:30 a.m.
- Henri Langlois the Phantom of the Cinematheque, Jacques Richard, out of competition, 9:30 a.m.
- I Died in Childhood, Georgiy Paradjanov, out of competition, 10:30 p.m.\
- Notre Musique, Jean-Luc Godard, out of competition, 5:15 p.m.
- Alexandrie... New York, Youssef Chahine, Un Certain Regard, 10 p.m.
- Schizo, Guka Omarova, Un Certain Regard, 2 and 4:30 p.m.
- The Big Red One, Samuel Fuller, Cannes Classics, 7 p.m. This is a World War II movie starring Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill and Robert Carradine. Find out more with my Top Movies About D-Day list.