The Best and Worst of the Cannes Film Festival »

Posted By myfairlady 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment

The Chopard sponsored Cannes Film Festival is where the world’s cinema elite get together every Spring to see what is new in the world of movie making and fashion. The festival began in 1946, and has grown over the last 62 years into an event the world takes note of in terms of entertainment and fashion.

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    hyperbola6 months, 2 weeks ago

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    Well the "beautiful people" are certainly the worst of Cannes. Here is the movie I want to see. A parable for our time about religious barbarians (of all faiths) causing destruction of knowledge and civilization.

    Alejandro Amenábar's Agora

    Screening out of official competition, Alejandro Amenábar’s Agora is an intelligent, sweeping epic surrounding the last days of a little-known Greek scholar, perhaps the first feminist, the astronomer Hypatia (Rachel Weisz).

    It’s Egypt in the 4th century, and chaos and revolution are engulfing the town of Alexandria. The Christians, the pagans, and the Jews are all jockeying for power — and wantonly slaughtering each other — during the waning days of the Roman Empire. Front and center of the uprising is a woman so devoted to her passion, astronomy and solving the riddle of our solar system, that she hasn’t any time for men or family; nor has she much use for religion, which at that time was akin to a death wish....

    http://www.movieline.com/2009/05/rachel-weisz-lose...

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