French director Jacques Audiard`s new film 'Paris 13th district'&nbsp;('Les Olympiades') does not show the Eiffel Tower, Haussmann buildings or the River Seine. He trains his lens instead of on the brutalist apartment towers of the 13th arrondissement, known as the Chinatown of Paris, where he once lived. 
 
With characters inspired by the graphic novels of American artist Adrian Tomine, Audiard sketches young, educated but disillusioned people trying to find their path, and he consciously avoids film clichés of the rich-poor divide in France.

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"I wanted to talk about the middle class, people who have university degrees and have somewhat obtained a level of success, but don`t really have anything going for them," Audiard told Reuters on Thursday, a day after his film premiered in Cannes. 
 
'Paris 13th district'&nbsp;is one of 24 films in competition for the Palme d`Or at the 74th Cannes festival. Filming during the COVID-19 lockdown helped first-time actress Lucie Zhang get into her character Emilie, a young woman struggling to hold a job and not fall in love with her one-time flatmate. 
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"During the pandemic, we`re a lot more alone, and closed and isolated. So maybe that can bring this type of emotion in the characters, unconsciously," Zhang said. Audiard, who won the Palme d`Or in 2015 with 'Dheepan', a film about Tamil refugees in France, said it was troubling that some French films lack multi-racial representation.

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In 'Paris 13th district', two of the main characters - Camille and Emilie - are from immigrant families. "In (Francois) Truffaut's films, you could see a real estate agent too, or a lover that passes out, but there is no Black person, no Chinese person," Audiard told journalists. 
 
Audiard is the director of critically-acclaimed films including 'The Sisters Brothers', 'A Prophet' and 'Rust and Bone'.

French director Jacques Audiard`s new film 'Paris 13th district' ('Les Olympiades') does not show the Eiffel Tower, Haussmann buildings or the River Seine. He trains his lens instead of on the brutalist apartment towers of the 13th arrondissement, known as the Chinatown of Paris, where he once lived.

French director Jacques Audiard`s new film 'Paris 13th district' ('Les Olympiades') does not show the Eiffel Tower, Haussmann buildings or the River Seine. He trains his lens instead of on the brutalist apartment towers of the 13th arrondissement, known as the Chinatown of Paris, where he once lived. With characters inspired by the graphic novels of American artist Adrian Tomine, Audiard sketches young, educated but disillusioned people trying to find their path, and he consciously avoids film clichés of the rich-poor divide in France. Hong Kong protest documentary gets late Cannes slot "I wanted to talk about the middle class, people who have university degrees and have somewhat obtained a level of success, but don`t really have anything going for them," Audiard told Reuters on Thursday, a day after his film premiered in Cannes. 'Paris 13th district' is one of 24 films in competition for the Palme d`Or at the 74th Cannes festival. Filming during the COVID-19 lockdown helped first-time actress Lucie Zhang get into her character Emilie, a young woman struggling to hold a job and not fall in love with her one-time flatmate. "During the pandemic, we`re a lot more alone, and closed and isolated. So maybe that can bring this type of emotion in the characters, unconsciously," Zhang said. Audiard, who won the Palme d`Or in 2015 with 'Dheepan', a film about Tamil refugees in France, said it was troubling that some French films lack multi-racial representation. Cannes: Sony picks rights for Palme D’Or contender ‘Compartment No. 6’ In 'Paris 13th district', two of the main characters - Camille and Emilie - are from immigrant families. "In (Francois) Truffaut's films, you could see a real estate agent too, or a lover that passes out, but there is no Black person, no Chinese person," Audiard told journalists. Audiard is the director of critically-acclaimed films including 'The Sisters Brothers', 'A Prophet' and 'Rust and Bone'.

Cannes film 'Paris 13th district' shows another side of the French capital

Indian filmmaker, Rahul Jain, whose documentary ‘Invisible Demons’ premiered at the ongoing 74th Cannes Film Festival in France under the ‘Cinema for the Climate’ section of the &nbsp;coveted film festival.&nbsp;

 
“The film comes from a fear, the kind that a child has when they look at their hands and there's blood and they are confused. It is the same way I feel when you are melting at 50 degrees Celsius or when the AQI (Air Quality Index) is so high that you have to be locked in your home with a mask on. These are really visceral feelings and the fear of these feelings or the terror generated from them is what culminated in the film," he reportedly said in an interview.&nbsp; 
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The documentary filmmaker also said that humans do not need to be saved and that it is pretty much the other way round. “The world that we have created is affecting unwilling participants. They are the unwilling spectators to our greed and destruction… It is not a story, it is an experience because I got really sick when I came to Delhi after a long journey. I had all things to protect myself from ecological contact. The intensity of the change was so high and so fast that I felt physically compelled to do what I did, make a film,” he said.&nbsp;

 
“I could have made the film about different and bigger regions of the country or the whole country itself. But, I thought that if it is concise and focused on one city, and in particular, the city in question also being in the news for being the most polluted spot on earth consistently for a while, and it also being my hometown, it just felt like the right limit or structure to pursue,” he added.

 
"I can never control who watches my work. If I am going to spend two or three years on something it better be good and hope people connect with it. I am not trying to please everybody but I do try to reach out to more people," Jain said, while talking about attracting the right kind of viewers with his film on pollution, especially in New Delhi.&nbsp;

 
Talking about his inspiration and research work, Jain—a California Institute of the Arts graduate—said books such as 'Capital' by Rana Dasgupta, Amitav Ghosh's 'The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable', 'Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World' by Timothy Morton, 'Underland' by Robert Macfarlane helped him with his documentary.&nbsp;

 
Rahul Jain hopes that his film reaches far and wide as the dialogue around climate change—now stronger than ever—needs more visibility in mainstream media. This is his second after 'Machines', a film based out of&nbsp;a garment factory in Gujarat.&nbsp;

 
“As a cinema lover, I cannot fathom what to expect but I know it is a big deal because everybody thinks so. Personally, I am relieved as an artist that it is something that I worked on for years and it will have a life and hopefully it will be widely seen. I am glad I had the opportunity to bring this story out (sic),” he concluded.&nbsp;

Indian filmmaker, Rahul Jain, whose documentary ‘Invisible Demons’ premiered at the ongoing 74th Cannes Film Festival in France under the ‘Cinema for the Climate’ section of the coveted film festival.

Indian filmmaker, Rahul Jain, whose documentary ‘Invisible Demons’ premiered at the ongoing 74th Cannes Film Festival in France under the ‘Cinema for the Climate’ section of the coveted film festival. “The film comes from a fear, the kind that a child has when they look at their hands and there's blood and they are confused. It is the same way I feel when you are melting at 50 degrees Celsius or when the AQI (Air Quality Index) is so high that you have to be locked in your home with a mask on. These are really visceral feelings and the fear of these feelings or the terror generated from them is what culminated in the film," he reportedly said in an interview. The documentary filmmaker also said that humans do not need to be saved and that it is pretty much the other way round. “The world that we have created is affecting unwilling participants. They are the unwilling spectators to our greed and destruction… It is not a story, it is an experience because I got really sick when I came to Delhi after a long journey. I had all things to protect myself from ecological contact. The intensity of the change was so high and so fast that I felt physically compelled to do what I did, make a film,” he said. “I could have made the film about different and bigger regions of the country or the whole country itself. But, I thought that if it is concise and focused on one city, and in particular, the city in question also being in the news for being the most polluted spot on earth consistently for a while, and it also being my hometown, it just felt like the right limit or structure to pursue,” he added. "I can never control who watches my work. If I am going to spend two or three years on something it better be good and hope people connect with it. I am not trying to please everybody but I do try to reach out to more people," Jain said, while talking about attracting the right kind of viewers with his film on pollution, especially in New Delhi. Talking about his inspiration and research work, Jain—a California Institute of the Arts graduate—said books such as 'Capital' by Rana Dasgupta, Amitav Ghosh's 'The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable', 'Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World' by Timothy Morton, 'Underland' by Robert Macfarlane helped him with his documentary. Rahul Jain hopes that his film reaches far and wide as the dialogue around climate change—now stronger than ever—needs more visibility in mainstream media. This is his second after 'Machines', a film based out of a garment factory in Gujarat. “As a cinema lover, I cannot fathom what to expect but I know it is a big deal because everybody thinks so. Personally, I am relieved as an artist that it is something that I worked on for years and it will have a life and hopefully it will be widely seen. I am glad I had the opportunity to bring this story out (sic),” he concluded.

‘Invisible Demons’ comes from fear when you’re melting, says Indian docu maker Rahul Jain about his Cannes entry

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The latest curveball in US comedian Bill Murray's career -- a film about his show tunes collaboration with a German cellist -- was among the additions to the Cannes Film Festival announced Thursday. Murray, who has had one of the least predictable careers in film history, teamed up with cellist Jan Vogler in 2017 to perform a number of US theatrical standards.

A resulting concert film, 'New Worlds, the Cradle of a Civilization' will have a special screening at the festival, which has been postponed from its usual May slot to July 6-17.

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Also appearing outside the official competition is the latest animated feature from Ari Folman, Israeli director&nbsp;of the beloved "Waltz with Bashir" that electrified Cannes in 2008.&nbsp;

Folman's latest, "Where is Anne Frank?" follows the journey of Kitty, the imaginary friend from Frank's renowned diary of her time trying to evade the Nazis as a child in wartime Amsterdam.

Enfant terrible Gaspar Noe is also returning to Cannes, where his transgressive films, from the drug-fuelled 'Climax'&nbsp;to the 3D pornfest 'Love', have made him a fixture at the world's leading film get-together.&nbsp;

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Noe's&nbsp;latest, 'Vortex', stars another master of shock cinema, Italian director Dario Argento, and will run in the new Cannes Premier section of the festival.

The bumper crop of films follows the pandemic-induced cancellation of last year's edition.&nbsp;

The official selection was announced last week, with 24 films from renowned names such as Wes Anderson, Nanni Moretti and Sean Penn, competing for the Palme d'Or and the affection of a jury headed by Spike Lee.&nbsp;

The latest curveball in US comedian Bill Murray's career -- a film about his show tunes collaboration with a German cellist -- was among the additions to the Cannes Film Festival announced Thursday.

The latest curveball in US comedian Bill Murray's career -- a film about his show tunes collaboration with a German cellist -- was among the additions to the Cannes Film Festival announced Thursday. Murray, who has had one of the least predictable careers in film history, teamed up with cellist Jan Vogler in 2017 to perform a number of US theatrical standards. A resulting concert film, 'New Worlds, the Cradle of a Civilization' will have a special screening at the festival, which has been postponed from its usual May slot to July 6-17. Peacock orders live-action series adaptation of 'Ted' Also appearing outside the official competition is the latest animated feature from Ari Folman, Israeli director of the beloved "Waltz with Bashir" that electrified Cannes in 2008. Folman's latest, "Where is Anne Frank?" follows the journey of Kitty, the imaginary friend from Frank's renowned diary of her time trying to evade the Nazis as a child in wartime Amsterdam. Enfant terrible Gaspar Noe is also returning to Cannes, where his transgressive films, from the drug-fuelled 'Climax' to the 3D pornfest 'Love', have made him a fixture at the world's leading film get-together. Cannes Film Festival 2021: List of films competing for Palme d'Or Noe's latest, 'Vortex', stars another master of shock cinema, Italian director Dario Argento, and will run in the new Cannes Premier section of the festival. The bumper crop of films follows the pandemic-induced cancellation of last year's edition. The official selection was announced last week, with 24 films from renowned names such as Wes Anderson, Nanni Moretti and Sean Penn, competing for the Palme d'Or and the affection of a jury headed by Spike Lee.

Bill Murray and Anne Frank fill out bumper Cannes edition