The News Review:
- Cannes Film Festival
- Penelope Cruz sidelined by food poisoning
- Mariah Carey Radically Alters Appearance for Movie
- CANNES FILM FESTIVAL – CRITICS NT TAKEN WITH TAKING WDSTCK
Cannes Film Festival
Stuff.co.nz
MDEL EXAMPLE: Former model Eva Herzigova arrives for the screening of the film ‘Looking For Eric’ by director Ken Loach in competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. LEADING LADY: Actress Hilary Swank arrives for the screening of the film ‘Looking For Eric’ by director Ken Loach in competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. FUN AND FLIRTY: Dutch model Doutzen Kroes arrives for the screening of the film ‘Looking For Eric’ in competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. NT S LST: Actress Evangeline Lilly and Dutch model Doutzen Kroes arrive for the screening of the film ‘Looking For Eric’ in competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. GLDEN GIRL: Actress Rosanna Arquette arrives for the screening of the film ‘Antichrist’ in competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. « Previous« PreviousNext »Next ».
Penelope Cruz sidelined by food poisoning
The Associated Press
boss Harvey Weinstein broke the news to reporters Monday at an event to promote her forthcoming musical “Nine. ” Cruz had been due to appear but Weinstein said she was ill with “some sort of food poisoning” and was seeing a doctor. Cruz stars in Pedro Almodovar’s “Broken Embraces” which is due to have its Cannes premiere on Tuesday.
Mariah Carey Radically Alters Appearance for Movie
FXNews
Set in Harlem in 1987 “Precious” tells the story of an overweight illiterate girl who becomes pregnant with her second child at the age of 16 after she is raped by her father. Gabourey Sidibe plays the title role after director Lee Daniels discovered her on the streets of New York. The film – adapted from “Push: A Novel” – premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January where it won the Audience Award and Grand Jury prize for best drama. The film got its world premiere this weekend at the Cannes film festival with Mariah in her more traditional blinged-out garb.
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CANNES FILM FESTIVAL – CRITICS NT TAKEN WITH TAKING WDSTCK
Contactmusic.com
A typical reaction was Sukhdev Sandhu’s in the London Telegraph who wrote that the movie is “almost too sweet for its own good tasteful rather than transcendental. ” Daily Variety described it as “mild nostalgia at most a curiously unambitious misfire. ” Lee told a Cannes news conference that he wanted to present “a romantic image of the late ’60s the last piece of innocence we had. ” (Yet the movie ends with a reference to the violence-plagued Altamont music festival which took place a few months later — the “anti-Woodstock” as it is sometimes called.