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# Cannes Film Festival 2011: live
## Updated news and reviews on day seven in the countdown to the announcement
of the Palme d'Or winner at the 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival.
![Antonio Banderas during the photocall of Pedro Almodovar's La Piel Que
Habito (The Skin I Live In)][1]
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Antonio Banderas during the photocall of Pedro Almodovar's La Piel Que Habito
(The Skin I Live In) Photo: GETTY
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La Piel Que Habito photo call: Did Spanish actress Blanca Suarez have some
revenge to take on her poor co-star? Jan Cornet tries the old chin trick to
give him an extra inch. Futile, amigo Photo: AFP/GETTY
![La Piel Que Habito (The Skin I Live In)][3]
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La Piel Que Habito (The Skin I Live In)
By Martin Chilton and Florence Waters 10:59AM BST 19 May 2011
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**• Lars Von Trier accepts his ban for ['Nazi' gaffe][5]**
**• Pedro Almodovar's plastic surgeon thriller warmly received **
**• [Five star review for Von Trier's Melancholia ][6]**
**• Film [about Nicolas Sarkozy's divorce reveals his flaws][7] **
### Latest
**15:10** Lars von Trier accepts decision of the Cannes film festival to **ban
him over remarks he made about Adolf Hitler**. "Lars accepts whatever the
festival directors want to do to punish him," said Meta Foldager, one of the
producers of "Melancholia", which remains in competition for the Palme d'Or.
"He fully accepts that... It's up to the festival to decide what is good for
the festival," she said, adding that von Trier was "fine and doing his work"
promoting the film.
**14:55 **... and prize for best shindig this year? Via Red Granite, a big US
film financing company.
You could smell the money burning. The music was by (rapper) Pharrell Williams
opening for Kanye West and Jamie Foxx came on to perform 'Gold Digger' with
him and **Leonardo DiCaprio **and Jon Hamm and Bradley Cooper were there and
it was just completely decadent - wine flowing everywhere, fantastic food and
fireworks.
**14:50** Scott Roxborough of **The Hollywood Reporter** has been talking
about great Cannes parties. The best was a decade ago, as he recalls:
_I think it was 2001, it was 'Moulin Rouge' and it was just phenomenal. They
had put up a big circus tent, the music was Fatboy Slim and on the dancefloor
it was Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor and the whole cast with the can-can
dancers. The party was so hopping that (Australian media mogul) Rupert Murdoch
stood up on a chair just so he could get a better look at what was happening.
_
**13:03** **Lars von Trier latest**: the dierctor has been declared "persona
non grata" by the Cannes Film Festival for saying that he sympathizes with
Adolf Hitler. We are unsure whether that implies that his film
[**Melancholia**][6] (five stars from this paper's reviewer) will be taken out
of competition. [Full report here][8]
**12:56 **More film news for you from **David Gritten **
_![][9] As Cannes enters the final stretch, news of another festival worth
attending - Venice, which begins on August 31. Confirmed films include David
Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method (Freud meets Jung, with Viggo Mortensen,
Michael Fassbender and Keira Knightley); Roman Polanski's Carnage; British
director Steve McQueen's Shame, Michael Winterbottom's reworking of Tess of
the d'Urbevilles, and Andrea Arnold's new adpatation of Wuthering Heights. _
**OK, book me a gondola..... **
**12:42 **By virtue of its disturbing subject matter - the revenge-killings of
John Bunting, the man behind the so-called "bodies-in-barrels murders" of the
late '90s - Cannes has found 2011's (albeit Australian) answer to Antichrist.
Directed by Australian Justin Kurzel, **Snowtown** screened as part of
Critics' Week although we're told a large chunk of the audience had to leave
early. Presumably to vomit/faint/lie down in a dark room. Those who did stay
to the end, however,"clapped loudly".
**![Twitter][10] [Ben_Clay][11] **_Richard Wilkins gives SNOWTOWN 0 out of 5.
If that's not a good enough reason to see it, then I don't know what is._
**![Twitter][10] [mindychops][12]**_ I will probably never sleep, or hold down
food, ever again._
**12:31 **Did** **Spanish actress Blanca Suarez chose her shoes with a
vengeance? Poor co-star Jan Cornet tries the old chin trick to give him an
extra inch. Futile, amigo
Photo call for The Skin I Live In / GETTY
**12:11 **No ecstatic noises coming out of the Almodovar screenings so far,
but some tepid and rather noncommittal recommendations. LOVEFiLM, the postage
DVD people, are loving it
**![Twitter][10] [LOVEFiLM][13] **_We loved Almodovar's The Skin I Inhabit.
Great melodrama with wonderful performance from Antonio Banderas_[ ][14]
**11:45 **Pedro Almodovar shows off his Masters Golf casual wear at the Cannes
Film Festival
**11:30** Among the Short Film Corner contenders this year is **The Sea is All
I Know**, directed by Jordan Bayne. It boasts perhaps the biggest star of any
Cannes short: Academy Award winner Melissa Leo, a friend of Bayne's, in a
seaside tale of an estranged couple plunged into spiritual crisis by the
imminent death of their daughter.
Oscar-winning Melissa Leo stars in a short film at Cannes called The Sea Is
All I Know
**11:24** Back to Cannes. There are With 3,085 registered participants in the
**Short Film Corner**. These films, lasting anything from 35 minutes to 60
seconds, are shown in digital viewing booths.
It costs £85 for a short to be considered for Cannes. One short per film-maker
per year is the limit, submissions can be sent over the Internet, and anyone
rejected gets their money back.
**11:12** Great surname, by the way . . . Winding Refn. He's married to
actress Liv Corfixen and is the half-brother of Danish singer Kasper Winding.
Who played with **Frank Zappa**. Ok, have gone off on a Winding Road.
**11:11** One for the car chase fan. A new movie called **Drive** adapted from
a novel by James Sallis is being shown at Cannes.
The main star is Ryan Gosling who plays a Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as
a driver-for-hire for the Los Angeles underworld.
And he has to help a damsel in distress - played by Carey Mulligan. One funny
twist. It's directed by Denmark's Nicolas Winding Refn, who cannot drive.
Winding Refn told _Screen magazine_: "I've tried eight times to get a licence
and I've been in three car crashes. Maybe I'm car-phobic."
The film is in the running for this year's Palme d'Or.
Carey Mulligan, who starred in An Education, will appear in the new movie
Drive
**11:03** Stanley Kubrick's widow Christiane and her brother Jan Harlan, who
worked on many of the director's films, are in Cannes today for a special
screening of_ **A Clockwork Orange**_.
Malcolm McDowell, who starred in the controversial 1971 film, based on the
novel by **Anthony Burgess**, will also be there.
Leeds-born McDowell played the psychopathic delinquent Alex who delights in
classical music and sexual violence.
Kubrick withdrew it from British cinemas after speculation in the press it had
inspired copycat acts of violence and it was only released on video and DVD in
the UK after his death in 1999.
It used to be that the only way anyone could view it was on a fuzzy DVD. But
it's lost its power to shock. To mark its 40th anniversary, a newly restored
version will be unveiled at Cannes, and released shortly after on Blu-ray.
So: Banned. Dangerous. Available. Feted. Blue-ray. It's journey into
mainstream respectability is complete.
Malcolm McDowell in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange
**10:50** Good morning and welcome to day nine at Cannes where we can look
forward to first reactions to **Pedro Almodovar's** potentially very creepy
and surreal new revenge film about a plastic surgeon and a rapist. Sticking to
a theme then, it is also Stanley Kubbrick day in the Classic Film category,
with a screening of **Clockwork Orange**
**In competition** Almodovar has not yet won the Palme d'Or, though he took
best director at Cannes in 1999 for_ All About My Mother. _Here's the trailer
for the Spanish director's **La Piel Que Habito** (_The Skin I Live In) _which
is currently a serious contender for the award at odds 7/1 to win
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