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It is the actor’s great struggle to take their work seriously without taking themselves seriously. To selectively activate the mechanisms of emotion in order to embody credible human behavior or an aestheticized alternative is no small task, requiring study, training, and respect.

CANNES – There is a surprise in Leos Carax’s “Annette” that many will not be expecting. The fact the press shy cinematic auteur is able to pull it off is a credit to his unique skills as a filmmaker.

After the pandemic threw a damper on everything in the past year, things are gradually returning to normal and so are the big annual events. The prestigious Cannes Film Festival made a return in July 2021 and once again major A-list celebrities descended on the famous red carpet at the French festival.

Something of a cinematic seminar course, one content to marvel at a medium rather than critically engage it, “The Story of Film: A New Generation” has a lot to say about movies yet little to say about cinema.

CANNES – A celebratory press conference for Spike Lee and the 2021 Cannes Film Festival jury took a decidedly serious turn quicker than anyone might have expected.

When we talk about fast, prolific filmmakers that are able to get a film made in a short amount of time and never sit around and let years go by without a new feature, we often talk about Steven Soderbergh, for example. However, you could argue that no one is as prolific or as fast as filmmaker Hong Sang-soo.

Mark Cousins is kind of a film historian who makes amazing, long, expansive docs about cinema. He is best known for his 15-hour documentary from 2011, “The Story of Film: An Odyssey,” and now he’s made a follow-up to it (while it hasn’t been widely seen in the U.S.

Even if you’re not well-versed in international cinema, there are names that stand out that surely will attract film fans. One of those names is Léa Seydoux, the acclaimed French actress that has been a dominant force in film over the past two decades.

The Cannes Film Festival is around the corner, which means companies like The Match Factory are dropping trailers for their new films. The latest is “Prayers For The Stolen” (aka “Noche de Fuego“) by Mexican director Tatiana Huezo (‘Tempestad“), which will make its world premiere at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section next month.

What’s one of the most anticipated film of 2021? French filmmaker Julia Ducournau‘s “Titane,” the follow-up to her critically-acclaimed horror film “Raw.” Starring Agathe Rousselle and Vincent Lindon, the movie is a thriller about a long-lost child who returns suddenly, but what seems to be the end of a long nightmare soon turns into something else. READ MORE: 52 Films Directed By Women To Watch In 2021 The film is also set to debut at the Cannes Film Festival.

At this point last year, it was clear the 2020 Cannes Film Festival was canceled. We were knee-deep in the worst of the pandemic and in-person film festivals seemed like an absolutely ludicrous idea.

It is truly beginning to feel like we’re in a time loop. It was only a year ago when the Cannes Film Festival announced that Spike Lee would be the Jury President for the film festival.

Cannes director Thierry Fremaux is probably best known as the vocal leader of one of the biggest film events each year. However, he’s doing the publicity rounds nowadays to hype up his new book, “Judoka,” about his time learning Judo.

What has been hinted at and speculated about for weeks now is official — the 2021 Cannes Film Festival is officially no longer a spring event, as it moves into the middle of summer over concerns about COVID-19. According to the event’s organizers, this year’s Cannes Film Festival is no longer going to happen in mid-May and will instead begin on July 6, running until July 17.

Last year, as the second wave of COVID-19 swept through Europe, bringing many countries back into lockdown, the folks at the Cannes Film Festival revealed plans for alternative dates for the event if the typical May timeframe wasn’t a possibility. Let’s call May “Plan A” and the alternate dates in June/July were “Plan B.” Well, it appears Cannes is well past Plan A and already looking at Plan B…while drafting up a possible Plan C.

Yes, 2021 is a brand-new year. And yes, this was supposed to be better than 2020, which we can all agree was a dumpster fire.

Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 has been an unprecedented year for the film industry. Not only is the theatrical release business on life-support, but the film festival season was effectively canceled from March until September, leaving a Cannes-sized hole in the hearts of cinema fans.