The News Review:
- Cannes film festival falls in love with maths
- Awards and Festivals News & Buzz
- ‘Tetro’ reviews roundup
- Festival stage collapse leaves three hurt
Cannes film festival falls in love with maths
guardian.co.uk
The film part of the festival’s official selection but not competing for the Palme d’r received cheers. According to Edward Gibbon in his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Hypatia’s “flesh was scraped from her bones with sharp oyster-shells”. Amenabar spares his heroine quite such a grim end ? but he does portray her as an areligious Enlightenment heroine destroyed by brutal fanatics. “nce we started researching the film we recognised a lot of echoes with contemporary times and realised we could make a film about the present” he said. Some viewers have even likened the depiction of the members of the parabolani an early-Christian brotherhood to the modern Taliban.
Awards and Festivals News & Buzz
Los Angeles Times
These days as the business has grown much tougher with higher-than-ever profit expectations they almost seem more interested in finding reasons not to acquire a film. For proof consider the status of director Terry Gilliam's.
‘Tetro’ reviews roundup
Los Angeles Times
" As the first film to go before the critics at the fest Coppola's film faces a tough crowd. But the legendary director is also beloved in Cannes so how did his latest film fare? A brief roundup of reactions:n his.
Festival stage collapse leaves three hurt
United Press International
Derbyshire police said those hurt Saturday night received medical treatment for back and neck problems along with a suspected broken wrist and shoulder The Times of London nline reported Sunday. Sally Booth a site manager at the festival in the village of Hulland Ward credited emergency services for their response to the stage collapse which she blamed on strong winds. “It’s been raining and windy all day but this was a freak gust of wind that was capable of knocking people over” she said. “When it happened everybody did what they had to do and more. The emergency services responded very quickly. The Times nline said while the stage was closed following the collapse the three-day festival forged on.
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