Cannes Film Festival May 14 Report: Love, San Fernando Valley Style
Saturday May 14, 2005
Has Edward Norton ever been bad in a movie? Today's Cannes Film Festival highlight is a movie starring him, "Down in the Valley," directed by David Jacobson and also starring Evan Rachel Wood, Bruce Dern, Rory Culkin and Ellen Burnstyn. Valley, set in the San Fernando Valley, follows a disturbed man who believes he's a cowboy and ensnares a difficult girl into a relationship. The film is having a stellar year already, as it will open the Los Angeles Film Festival in June. Other films screening today:
- CACHÉ (HIDDEN) by Michael HANEKE (In Competition)
- ELECTION by Johnnie TO (In Competition)
- LAST DAYS by Gus VAN SANT (In Competition)
- WHERE THE TRUTH LIES by Atom EGOYAN (In Competition)
- KISS KISS, BANG BANG (IDEM) by Shane BLACK (Out of Competition)
- THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES by Adam CURTIS (Out of Competition)
- DOWN IN THE VALLEY by DAVID JACOBSON (Un certain regard)
- SULANGA ENU PINISA (THE FORSAKEN LAND) by Vimukthi JAYASUNDARA (Un certain regard)
- BLACK NARCISSUS by Michael POWELL and Emeric PRESSBURGER (Cannes Classics)
- I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING by Michael POWELL and Emeric PRESSBURGER (Cannes Classics)
- TIAN XIA DI YI QUAN (KING BOXER) by CHUNG Chang-wah (Cannes Classics)