Cannes Film Festival May 13 Report: Last Days and Dark Secrets
Friday May 13, 2005
Today's showings feature two exciting offerings. "Last Days," director by Gus Van Sant and starring Michael Pitt and Lukas Haas, follows loner artist Blake (Pitt) through a few of his troubled hours. "Where the Truth Lies," directed by Atom Egoyan and starring Kevin Bacon and Alison Lohman, is about a girl found murdered in a hotel room after partying with two celebrities. Years later, a journalist decides to delve into the mystery.Here is an excerpt from "Last Days":
RECORD EXECUTIVE: Hey you.
BLAKE: Hey.
RECORD EXECUTIVE: Are you free?
BLAKE: Huh-mm. Sorta.
RECORD EXECUTIVE: Free enough to play that guitar?
BLAKE: Mm. Yeah. I haven't been playing very much.
RECORD EXECUTIVE: Have you uh, talked to your daughter? Hmm.
BLAKE: Hmm. Yeah I've been talking to her on the phone.
RECORD EXECUTIVE: What do you say to her?
BLAKE: Hmm-mm. I do the voices she likes. I don't know. I tell her I miss her.
RECORD EXECUTIVE: Do you say, "I'm sorry, that I'm a Rock and Roll cliché?"
Here are the other films bring screened today:
- BASHING by KOBAYASHI Masahiro (In Competition)
- KILOMETRE ZERO by Hiner SALEEM (In Competition)
- LAST DAYS by Gus VAN SANT (In Competition)
- WHERE THE TRUTH LIES by Atom EGOYAN (In Competition)
- CROSSING THE BRIDGE - THE SOUND OF ISTANBUL (THE SOUND OF ISTANBUL) by Fatih AKIN (Out of Competition)
- KIRIKOU ET LE FÉTICHE ÉGARÉ by Bénédicte GALUP and Michel OCELOT (Out of Competition)
- MIDNIGHT MOVIES: FROM THE MARGIN TO THE MAINSTREAM by Stuart SAMUELS (Out of Competition)
- THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES by Adam CURTIS (Out of Competition)
- DELWENDE by S. Pierre YAMEOGO (Un certain regard)
- LE FILMEUR by Alain CAVALIER (Un certain regard)
- NORDESTE by Juan SOLANAS (Un certain regard)
- LA FILLE DE L'EAU (THE WHIRLPOOL OF FATE) by Jean RENOIR (Cannes Classics)
- LA PERLA (THE PEARL) by Emilio "Indio" FERNÁNDEZ (Cannes Classics)
- MARTY by Delbert MANN (Cannes Classics)
- LAND OF THE DEAD by George A. ROMERO