The festival makes use of a shot of 'In The Mood for Love' of Wong Kar Wai as the official poster in 2006...This appears to be a bit outdated in a sense that the film has already been released for years and that the Cultural Year of China in France was over last year. It is only that Wong Kar Wai has assumed the role as the president of the jury panel that his poster might as a result been on for the festival. The image the organiser selected is a silhouette of Maggie Cheung on a cherish staircase in the film. The mood would be an art form of the films from Hong Kong (or better China?!) which the French people adore according to my understanding. This is equally symbolic when compared with the red lanterns or the harvesting red sorghum of Zhang Yi Mou. Actually the poster also recalls me the colour when Monica Bellucci walked in the subway in the film 'Irreversible'. When I was going back to work today, I saw the red light of the elevator staring at me with a mood for love, and I see this same beauty that the colour simply brings mania to the Western world with passion of where the Dragon is awaking.
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i wrote sth about silent hill, u can check it out.
Some footnotes from Wen Wei Po that the Jury of Cannes Film Festival this year was unprecedentedly composed of mainly directors and actors while critics were mainly invited in the past. The presence of increasing Asian representatives at Cannes Film Festival highlighted the growing importance of Chinese-language productions. Wong Kar-wai, the first Chinese person to be given the honour as president of jury and Zhang Ziyi as the nine-member jury are signs of gesture that the event has placed on China. Summer Palace, directed by Lou Ye from China would be competing against, among others, Sophia Coppola's
Marie Antoinette, Volver by Spanish director Pedro Almodovar and Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes The Barley for the Prestigious Palme d'Or.
Don't tell me you are in Cannes during the festival. You gonna kidding me!
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