May
17
Cannes Day Four: Vicky, Woody, Indy, Harvey and Lola
After mounting a full day of press on the 7th floor of the Carlton, Paramount threw a small press cocktail party at the Cote for Indy 4 and brought the "talent" through to meet and greet. (There will be no press at the official dinner Sunday night.) Shia LaBeouf was in no mood to share, having given non-stop round table interviews all day, up since 6 AM, he said. He did Access Hollywood on a boat, but hadn't had a chance to experience his first Cannes, really. His work wasn't over either: he was steeling himself for the Vanity Fair dinner.
Paramount took full advantage of this turbo-junket opportunity. Harrison Ford did Access Hollywood on the beach. And they got E.T., Extra and GMA, too. Karen Allen said she'd been inside rooms all day, too, except for a little walk around. Her last Cannes was for The Glass Menagerie in 1987. Here's some video.
Producer Kathleen Kennedy explained why Spielberg wanted to do all the press before they had seen the film. He really wants to try to preserve the experience for the audience, so they don't know everything before they see the movie, like it was on the first three Raiders pics. "If you learn everything, no one can get surprised anymore," said Kennedy. "You can't discover this movie until we let them discover it."
Later I took a break by going to see Technicolor's stunning digital restoration of Max Ophuls' Lola Montes as he originally intended it to be seen. His cut was restored in 1968, but Technicolor used modern technology and the help of Marcel Ophuls to bring it back to vivid, rich, saturated life. It was a delicious escape from all the Cannes madness.
On the way out the door it was pouring rain so I looked like a bedraggled mess by the time I arrived at the Weinsteins' Vicky Cristina Barcelona party on the soggy 3.14 plage, as Woody Allen and Penelope Cruz and Rebecca Hall and Bono huddled in a corner banquette. Harvey was in good spirits; this movie might catch the zeigeist right, as it delivers a light divertissement during dark times.
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