{"id":3948,"date":"2018-09-09T19:39:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T19:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/09\/09\/palme-dor-winner-jacques-audiard-says-hell-never-bring-a-movie-to-cannes-competition-again-tiff\/"},"modified":"2018-09-09T19:39:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T19:39:20","slug":"palme-dor-winner-jacques-audiard-says-hell-never-bring-a-movie-to-cannes-competition-again-tiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/09\/09\/palme-dor-winner-jacques-audiard-says-hell-never-bring-a-movie-to-cannes-competition-again-tiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Palme d\u2019Or Winner Jacques Audiard Says He\u2019ll Never Bring a Movie to Cannes Competition Again \u2014 TIFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Among the anticipated 2018 movies that didn\u2019t surface in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/cannes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cannes\">Cannes<\/a> lineup earlier this year, one stood out: The bloody Western \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/the-sisters-brothers\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-sisters-brothers\">The Sisters Brothers<\/a>,\u201d the first English-language movie from French auteur <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/jacques-audiard\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jacques-audiard\">Jacques Audiard<\/a>. Arguably the most acclaimed French director working today, the 66-year-old director of tough, masculine dramas won the Palme d\u2019Or for this last movie, \u201cDheepan,\u201d and has been a part of the festival\u2019s exclusive directors club for years. He won a best screenplay award for \u201cA Self Made Hero\u201d in 1996, the festival\u2019s Grand Prix in 2009 for \u201cA Prophet,\u201d and returned to the competition four years later with \u201cRust and Bone.\u201d But \u201cThe Sisters Brothers\u201d skipped the festival, reportedly because the September 21 release plan from Annapurna Pictures made a fall launchpad more attractive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">However, in an interview at the Toronto International Film Festival \u2014 where \u201cThe Sisters Brothers\u201d screened following its world premiere in Venice \u2014 Audiard said his relationship to Cannes had evolved since winning its top prize three years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI don\u2019t feel a need to be there,\u201d he said, and added that he no longer wanted his films programmed in the festival\u2019s venerated Official Competition section. If Cannes director Thierry Fremaux offered Audiard a slot, the director said, \u201cI will refuse it. I don\u2019t really care if I go to Cannes or not.\u201d He clarified that he had little interest in competition sections at other festivals: &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be in competition anywhere,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/09\/the-sisters-brothers-review-joaquin-phoenix-john-c-reilly-jacques-audiard-1201998629\/\" title=\"\u2018The Sisters Brothers\u2019 Review: Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly Star in the Most Sensitive Western Ever Made \u2014 Venice\">\u2018The Sisters Brothers\u2019 Review: Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly Star in the Most Sensitive Western Ever Made \u2014 Venice<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>At a press conference before Cannes in May, Fremaux told a roomful of journalists that he anticipated American films would be more likely to avoid Cannes due awards season plans. &#8220;The French are more and more obsessed with Cannes, and Americans are more and more obsessed with the Oscars,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While taking a break from Cannes this year, Audiard said he was bored by all the drama surrounding the festival, particularly the rule banning Netflix films from competition that led the streaming platform to pull all its titles from the lineup. \u201cI don\u2019t give a shit,\u201d he said, when asked about the fracas. Nevertheless, he sided with the festival. \u201cIt\u2019s always difficult to make films,\u201d he said. \u201cThe world is changing and I don\u2019t know if people still want films. That\u2019s the problem with Netflix. Are we talking about theaters or cinema when it&#8217;s on the tablet? That\u2019s not cinema.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Despite his many years of experience, Audiard acknowledged that \u201cThe Sisters Brothers\u201d would provide most American audiences with their first introduction to his work. \u201cI think people like me here,\u201d he said. \u201cThey just don\u2019t know me. That may change, but I won\u2019t.\u201d The movie, which stars John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix as siblings who work as hired guns in the Old West, veers from gritty shootouts to more sensitive family moments. \u201cIt presents me well,\u201d Audiard said, \u201cbecause it\u2019s a little witty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the anticipated 2018 movies that didn\u2019t surface in the Cannes lineup earlier this year, one stood out: The bloody Western&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-3948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-11G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}