The Times and Sunday Times for less David Cameron Where am I The 62nd Cannes Film Festival is looming on the horizon with typically
monstrous swagger, bearing a genuinely breathtaking roster of big-name directors and a recently announced line-up that includes Quentin Tarantino’s war movie Inglourious Bastards, Lars Von Trier’s horror movie Antichrist and Pedro Almodóvar’s melodrama Broken Embraces. The sheer density of A-list directors (including Ken Loach, Jane Campion, Michael Haneke, Francis Ford Coppola) at this year’s event has left slim pickings for the often underpowered Venice Film Festival, which follows later in the summer. While the Toronto Film Festival, the movie calendar’s other 800lb gorilla, has simply scoffed, announcing on Tuesday that this year, recession be damned, Toronto will be as big as ever – the Canadian Government has given it a £1.7 million bonus. And yet, when all the posturing and the hype is done, what exactly do these festivals have to offer, what happens there and what’s the point We asked a panel of insiders for the truth about film festivals..
1. It’s Not About The Parties