Monika’s Pensieve

I can’t say I’ve been following the Cannes festival very avidly, but I guess the winners are worth a mention on this blog considering how much film related content I put up here… I find it interesting that the best director honour went (apparently rather controversially) to a Filipino director (I saw one of his film’s at the last Warsaw Film Festival in fact). It would be great if Filipino cinema made its presence known internationally a bit more. They have a very strong film culture.
The article on Cannes that put a smile on my face was this *grin* In the last few years the tendency at most film festivals I attended was to do quiet films with long shots, restrained emotions, beautiful landscapes etc. It was getting a bit tiring, so I’m sort of glad that violence and perversion is back. Some of my best film festival memories are from times when violence and perversion ruled art house cinema ;)