Maps To The Stars is a film having plenty of fun with the notion of Hollywood dynasties and the processes by which success is achieved and cemented – who knows whom, who’s seeing whom, who hates whom: all the invisible, untraceable connections that bind Hollywood together. The joke is that there is no map to these stars, and without an innate sense of direction you’ll soon be lost. Hollywood is often decried as incestuous, and this film plays that idea to the hilt, with the product of incestuous breeding even more troubled and egotistical than the generation before that.
Studio Cinelive magazine dedicates an interview to David Cronenberg. Moreover there are two articles about Maps To The Stars:
In short: it says Rob will show more than his pretty face, that Cronenberg is going back to his roots, the cast is pretty good and that Julianne’s performance is probably gonna be the best out of all her already amazing performances.
David Cronenberg and Julianne Moore were on ‘Rencontre de Cinéma’ and talked about the movie. Click HERE or on the picture to hear David talk about ‘Maps to the Stars’ and Robert Pattinson (Rob mention starts at 15:52)
Quotes from the interview
David says it’s magical and exciting to go back to present a film at Cannes. He is proud to be a Canadian selected for Cannes Film Festival.
David loves the crazyness in the actors. That they are like children playing at being someone else
David says he makes his films very simply. Two days after the shooting, editing was finished!
David recites the poem by Paul Eluard ‘Liberty’ in French and without mistakes 🙂 The poem has some significance and special meaning in the film.
David said that the film gives a very dark interpretation of what is freedom in Hollywood but he says that we must go see the movie to find out more lol
About Rob and Mia, David says they are fantastic actors, they bring a freshness and a different way of seeing the world. Because they are Internet generation, they have very sharp mind and great wisdom for their age. He says he feels like a father or maybe a grandfather for them
David doesn’t have movie project for now, he has written a book and 5 producers have already called him to make a film of it.
“Maps to the Stars” takes aim at Hollywood excess, with an ensemble cast including a bleach-blond Julianne Moore playing a hysterical actress and Mia Wasikowska playing the mysterious, scarred young woman who suddenly appears in her life.
Although it marks the first time Cronenberg, known for “A History of Violence” and “Eastern Promises,” has made a film about Hollywood, he said he has been trying to make the movie — based on a script by novelist Bruce Wagner — for a decade.
“I’ve never really been obsessed with doing a movie about movie-making or anything like that, but in a way his script was not that. It’s about ambition and fear and desperation and a whole bunch of other things within the context of movie-making,” he said.
The film reunites Cronenberg with “Cosmopolis” star Robert Pattinson, who the director called “a terrific actor.”
“When we did ‘Cosmopolis,’ he didn’t really want to do it because his character was in every scene. He really wanted to be in an ensemble piece, where he was one of a great cast of actors,” said Cronenberg. “I said, ‘We talked about that and here it is. Here’s a perfect role for you.'”
Read the full article about Canadians at Cannes at the source.
The 67th Cannes Film Festival official screening guide is out and now we have for confirmation for The Rover and Maps To The Stars’ World Premieres at Cannes:
The Rover will have it’s world premiere on May 18th at 10:30pm (local time) at the Grand Theatre Lumiere.
Maps To The Stars world premiere will be on May 19th at 10:30pm (local time) at the Grand Theatre Lumiere.
Here’s the translation of Robert Pattinson and David Michod’s interviews in Premiere France. You can find the scans HERE
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