Emmanuelle Chriqui

The Cannes Film Festival‘s Classics section, created in 2004 to showcase restored versions of classic and notable movies, will include 20 features and three documentaries for the 2013 edition. Among the highlights, Kim Novak will present the restored print of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo while Marco Ferreri’s La Grande Bouffe will mark a return to the Croisette. The 1973 film about four friends who gather in a villa with the express purpose of eating themselves to death starred Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli and Philippe Noiret and caused quite the scandal when it was originally screened. Also appearing are Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s infamous Cleopatra with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in its four-hour version; Billy Wilder’s Fedora; Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima Mon Amour, starring Oscar nominee Emmanuelle Riva; Hal Ashby’s The Last Detail and Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg. In tribute to Joanne Woodward, the festival will screen the final film she produced, Shepard & Dark, by Treva Wurmfeld. There will also be a special evening dedicated to Jean Cocteau’s Beauty And The Beast and to Opium, a new musical comedy directed by Arielle Dombasle. Euzhan Palcy’s film Simeon (1992) will be screened in honor of the 100th birthday of Aimé Césaire. Click over for a full list of films: RESTORED PRINTS Borom Sarret (1963) by Ousmane Sembene Charulata (Charulata: The Lonely Wife) (1964) by Satyajit Ray Cleopatra (1963) by Joseph L. ... Read More »

Some of us are floating in the water, waiting for that big wave that we can ride, one that will let us surf to another place where the water’s warmer, less choppy, and in some cases, soaked with less tourist piss (which may or may not be part of the metaphor). One of these people is Alix (Emmanuelle Devos) of “Just a Sigh,” a working actress still stuck in a holding pattern. Now in her forties, she clutches her cellphone, praying for a call from a sometime-boyfriend. What we learn of this man suggests whatever feelings that exist may not be mutual, and while Alix tells a girlfriend that she’s going to visit him, suggesting that she may try to establish their relationship face-to-face, the defensive way that Alix expresses herself suggests she’s tried this before. With time off because of a power failure at the theater, Alix leaves for Paris to see her would-be beau and visit her mother. It’s on the train, however, where she sees Doug, a handsome traveler headed into the...