Cannes 2014: David Michod’s grimy road movie joins “Maps to the Stars” as an opportunity for indie-driven reinvention
After the last couple of days at Cannes, it’s easy to see why Robert Pattinson is on the cover of French Premiere with the headline “la metamorphose.”
The two movies that have brought Pattinson to the Croisette are weird, dark, supremely edgy and nothing like what we might expect from an actor who became famous as the vampire dude in the “Twilight” movies.
His reinvention (at least when he strays into the indie world) is indeed a metamorphosis. And Cannes has become an accessory to his intriguing makeover, which actually started a couple of years ago when he came to the festival with David Cronenberg’s austere and arty “Cosmopolis.”
This year, he’s back with Cronenberg’s “Maps to the Stars” and David Michod’s “The Rover” which premiered on back-to-back days at Cannes. Both are bloody, brutal and strange, and both are terrific.
And the remarkable thing is that “Maps to the Stars,” in which Pattinson plays a chauffeur driver and aspiring actor who ends up having sex with Julianne Moore in the back seat of his car before almost everybody in the whole movie self-destructs spectacularly, turns out to be only the runner-up in the competition to see which of Pattinson’s Cannes movies is darker and edgier.
Here’s a lovely moment of Rob, Guy, David and a few more at the beach of Cannes, moments before the release of The Rover at the Cannes Film Festival on saturday may 17th:
The interview is dubbed. 1st question (they didn’t show the questions) he seems to be talking the fan support and 2nd question about Cannes.
Translation:
It’s the only reason I can live like this. It’s really amazing. I don’t quite understand how it happened.
I was really, really into films when I was younger. I would love every movie shown at Cannes. They’re masterpieces, they aren’t made just for entertainement.
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