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After some hemming & hawing I decided to blow off the 7pm Salle Debussy press screening of Nicholas Winding-Refn’s Neon Demon in order to catch a 6pm Director’s Fortnight showing of Laura Poitras’ Risk, a long-gestating portrait of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. I’ll catch the follow-up screening of Demon at 10 pm.
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HE Cannes headquarters (7 rue Jean Mero).
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This morning’s 11 am press conference for Christian Mungiu’s Graduation, attended by (l. to r.) Malina Manovici, Adrian Titieni, Cristian Mungiu, Maria Dragus, Rares Andrici.
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Team Aquarius raising their protest banners about the “soft coup” that last week removed Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff from office pending outcome of her trial. Her business-friendly political enemies used an alleged “misuse of funds” to get her out of office so they can have their way — plain and simple.
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Personal Shopper star & most deserving recipient of Cannes Film festival’s Best Actress trophy Kristen Stewart, director Olivier Assayas.
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