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I_bend_for_denim · 22-05-2006

'Darko' Director Receives Mixed Reception at Cannes

Southland Tales, the first film from writer-director Richard Kelly since his 2002 cult classic Donnie Darko, has received a decidedly mixed reception at the Cannes Film Festival, where it is competing for the prestigious Palme d'Or award. In advance of its premiere Sunday night, the film, which touches on everything from an apocalyptic nuclear bombing in Malibu in 2008 to the nation's obsession with celebrity, received a cold reaction at a press screening. (Daily Variety later called it "a pretentious, overreaching, fatally unfocused fantasy.") At a news conference following the screening, a reporter prefaced a question to Kelly by remarking that he had "never seen so many walkouts" at a press screening at Cannes. The moderator of the conference, however, promptly insisted that, from where he sat, the audience appeared "mesmerized" by the film. Kelly himself said that he realized that it would "push buttons" and that it was meant to be experienced not in the way a viewer ordinarily approaches a film but "like a puzzle." He acknowledged that he felt under "tremendous pressure" during the making of his second film "to live up to whatever expectations people have of me" following the Darko success.

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I_bend_for_denim front row Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: moving to Candyland Gender: homme Posts: 212	'Darko' Director Receives Mixed Reception at Cannes Southland Tales, the first film from writer-director Richard Kelly since his 2002 cult classic Donnie Darko, has received a decidedly mixed reception at the Cannes Film Festival, where it is competing for the prestigious Palme d'Or award. In advance of its premiere Sunday night, the film, which touches on everything from an apocalyptic nuclear bombing in Malibu in 2008 to the nation's obsession with celebrity, received a cold reaction at a press screening. (Daily Variety later called it "a pretentious, overreaching, fatally unfocused fantasy.") At a news conference following the screening, a reporter prefaced a question to Kelly by remarking that he had "never seen so many walkouts" at a press screening at Cannes. The moderator of the conference, however, promptly insisted that, from where he sat, the audience appeared "mesmerized" by the film. Kelly himself said that he realized that it would "push buttons" and that it was meant to be experienced not in the way a viewer ordinarily approaches a film but "like a puzzle." He acknowledged that he felt under "tremendous pressure" during the making of his second film "to live up to whatever expectations people have of me" following the Darko success. http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums...l-42490-2.html