James Gray claims to have had only disastrous experiences on the Croisette.
The American director finally received acclaim for “Armageddon Time”.
We hope, especially for him, that his film will be on the charts.
The Cannes Film Festival never brought him luck.
From
The Night We
Belong to (2007) to
The Immigrant
(2013) via
Two Lovers
(2008), James Gray has always had a blast and has always left empty-handed.
"I've never had a good experience in Cannes," he confides to
20 Minutes
a bit bitter and not too serene before presenting
Armageddon Time,
accompanied by Anne Hathaway.
“I don't really know why I'm here, but in any case I'm here... Maybe that's the definition of madness: always repeating the same experience while thinking of obtaining a different result.
Yet I am grateful to be there, continues the director.
The French have always supported my work much more than the Americans.
My filmmaker friends all envy my love affair with France.
James Gray judges his fellow citizens without indulgence.
“Americans are great when it comes to casting artists and producing them but they suck when it comes to judging and defending them.
He admits, however, that things may not be so simple.
"It may also be a matter of geographical distance," he says.
From what I know,
Fellini was for a long time more appreciated in the United States than in Italy where he was not always taken seriously.
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The end of a curse
After the first official screening on Thursday evening, the warm welcome received by
Armageddon Time
could mark the end of the director's Cannes “curse”.
It was only last weekend that he finished this film, a beautiful tribute to his family and his childhood in the 1980s in the Queens district of New York, which we wish him to see the week next to be on the charts.
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Cannes Film Festival: James Gray and Anne Hathaway at the happy hour of "Armageddon Time"
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