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Daily Bite: Cannes Film Festival Update
2013-05-17 : By Gearóid Gilmore
Sofia Coppola (far right) and the cast of 'The Bling Ring'
Sofia Coppola's 'The Bling Ring' opens Un Certain Regard.

The second day of the Cannes Film Festival saw Sofia Coppola’s ‘The Bling Ring’ open the Un Certain Regard category. Coppola and star Emma Watson graced the red carpet on Thursday along with stars Taissa Farmiga, Katie Chang, Claire Julien, and Israel Broussard. ‘The Bling Ring’ is Coppola’s fifth feature film and is her third film in a row that deals with the celebrity lifestyle and excess.

After making the relatively unknown ‘Somewhere’ in 2010 (which earned only $1.7 million domestically), Coppola returns to the limelight with a film inspired by real events and centres on a group of fame-obsessed teenagers who use the internet to track celebrities’ whereabouts in order to rob their homes. Already receiving positive reviews, the film will be released in Britain on July 5th, with an Irish release date to follow shortly afterwards.

Elsewhere, Japan’s public broadcaster NHK will showcase its next-generation 8K Super Hi-Vision format at Cannes today, screening the first short feature shot in the ultra-HD system.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, ‘Beauties À La Carte’, a 27-minute comedy directed by Toshio Lee, will be shown on a 220-inch screen to demonstrate 8K SHV, which is reportedly 16 times the resolution of standard HD, to the curious festival attendees.

The equipment for this revolutionary format was developed in collaboration with some of Japan’s biggest electronic manufacturers, including Fujitsu, JVC, Panasonic and Sharp, according to Kimiyo Hamasaki, technical director for the Cannes screenings.

In addition to this, research into the next generation of 3-D is already underway in NHK labs. NHK are attempting to improve on the current state of the format by removing the need for special glasses and allowing the viewer to see the image from different angles when they move around the image itself. So when viewers move left-right, up-down or backward-forward, they can gain a different perspective on the image.

In other news, actress Scarlett Johansson has signed up to direct her first feature, a film adaptation of Truman Capote’s nearly-lost novel ‘Summer Crossing’. Aldamisa will produce and will be selling the project at Cannes. Based on Capote’s novel by the same name, Johansson’s adaptation follows a 17-year-old Debutant who decides to pursue romance with a Jewish valet parking attendant instead of travelling through Paris during a 1945 summer heat wave in New York.

Capote never published the novel and trashed the manuscript altogether and it was only salvaged after a janitor in his building discovered it. The pages resurfaced in a 2004 auction and were later published. Production on the project is set to start in the first half of next year.

In Irish news, two Irish productions will screen at Cannes today: ‘Dark Touch’ and Love Eternal’.

Written and directed by Marina de Van, ‘Dark Touch’ tells the story of Niamh, the lone survivor of a bloody massacre after the furniture and objects in her family's isolated house take on a monstrous life of their own. Starring Padraic Delaney, Robert Donnelly, Mark Huberman, and Marie Missy Keating, the film is produced by Element Pictures, Filmgate Films and Ex Nihlo/Agat Films with Wild Bunch looking after international sales.

Based on the Japanese novel ‘Loving the Dead' from acclaimed author Kei Oishi, ‘Love Eternal’ centers on a damaged young man who after shutting himself away for ten years is forced to venture out into a world that he no longer understands.

Written and directed by Brendan Muldowney, the films stars Emma Eliza Regan, Pollyanna McIntosh, Amanda Ryan, and Robert de Hoog, and is produced by Dublin-based Fastnet Films. The film is an Irish/Luxembourg/Dutch/Japanese co-production with finance coming from the Irish Film Board, Film Fund Luxembourg, the Netherlands Film Fund, T.O. Entertainment, Inc and Atlantic Screen Music Ltd.



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