Pebs Seven titles selected for this year s Australian Movie Convention
Dir/scr: Sion Sono. Japan. 2011. 143misSonos romantic camp fest Love Exposure 2008 was spectacularly over the top, but the self-consciously gritty Guilty Of Romance Koi no Tsumi falls way under. Three interwoven stories of women from different social and economic strata seeking sexual pleasure in raw, unconventional ways,
stanley cup it is like a weak brew of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and the Japanese pink film, the soft core porn genre, that falls flat in both the character study and humour departments, which Love Exposure had succeeded so well in executing.Guilty Of Roma
stanley cup nce focuses on an unsatisfied bourgeois housewife, a married lower-middle-class cop, and a highbrow professor by day, uninhibited prostitute by night, all of whom dive into forbidden worlds of sexual pleasure.Shown in Cannes in a seemingly endless 143-minute directors cut, the release version will shed around 45 minutes. Even at the shorter length, the cult reputation of the eccentric Sono, poet, novelist, and filmmaker Suicide Club, Cold Fish will not guarantee much interest in this third movie in
stanley cup his Hate Saga a provocative, intentional misnomer on the domestic front, and minimally in foreign territories, save for some loyal Asian film buffs and a few festivals that foreground Asian movies.Divided into five chapters, Guilty Of Romance focuses on an unsatisfied bourgeois housewife, a married lower-middle-class cop, and a highbrow professor by day, uninhibited prostitute by night, all of whom dive Sogq Patterns in history
Documentaries are booming at Cannes, both in selection and the market. Melanie Goodfellow looks at this years crop and asks the experts about the current appetite for non-fiction work.Amid the hubbub of the red carpet and the big fiction-feature roll-outs, Cannes is an increasingly important event for th
stanley cup e documentary world.Cambodian Rithy Panhs hybrid work The Missing Picture premieres in Un Certain Regard and James Tobacks Cannes 2012-set Alec Baldwin-fronted expos茅 of the film industry Seduced And Abandoned has a Special Screening. Beyond the Official Selection, Oscar winner Marcel Oph眉ls stepped on to the Croisette for the first time in 18 years on Friday night for the Directors Fortnight premiere of his autobiographical Aint Misbehavin Un Voyageur .A fast-moving, ricocheting collage of scenes from Hollywood classics and interviews with famous friends such as Jeanne Moreau and Frederick Wiseman, the work
stanley us pieces together the film-makers peripatetic early life with legendary director father Max Oph眉ls and later his career as the Oscar-winning maker of documentary classics such as The Sorrow And The Pity and Hotel Terminus.But it is beyond the festival and in the market that documentarys presence is truly burgeo
stanley italy ning. More than 500 documentary features are on offer this year, roughly 50 of which will be market screened.The ever-increasing presence of the documentary world at Cannes prompted the March茅 du Film to open a dedicated Doc Corner in 2012.This year, they have enlarge
