Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby, will open the festival on 15 May.
Yet Luhrmann seems utterly bamboozled by the technique, as if it's thrown off his rhythm.
"Luckily, it sounds like Baz Luhrmann basically made that level for us, " Mr. Smith said.
But Ms. Martin and Mr. Luhrmann prefer their period films with an edge of immediacy.
Before each of them, she and Luhrmann prayed together vigorously, but she received no offer.
We need the younger people and you have directors like Baz Luhrmann, Francesca Zambello, Three Mo' Tenors.
God, she explained to Luhrmann, was giving her a little slap on the wrist for her self-satisfaction.
Most of the members of the churches that Luhrmann attended were white, middle class, college-educated, and centrist.
In Mr. Luhrmann's movie, on the other hand, your nose feels pressed to the window at all times.
The release of Mr. Luhrmann's movie has renewed interest in all things "Gatsby, " including the unauthorized Nintendo game.
Luhrmann is one of the few lay writers who attempt to account for visions via modern scientific theories.
Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is to open the 66th Cannes Film Festival.
Almost always, Luhrmann has written with sympathy, not scorn, for these convinced people.
But let's give Luhrmann his due: The man does cut a good teaser.
They staged their more modern version in Sydney in 1990 for the Australian Opera when Luhrmann was just 28.
You can dance or sway in the aisles, Luhrmann says, or have doughnuts and coffee from the snack table.
And if he's lost in the loud revelry, Luhrmann is completely out of his element in the more intimate scenes.
The Great Gatsby was scripted by Luhrmann and co-writer Craig Pearce, who worked together eight-time Oscar nominated film, Moulin Rouge!
Another odd thing about the Vineyarders, at least as described by Luhrmann, is that they seem to perform no social service.
Bringing on Jay-Z was a good idea by Luhrmann and Warner Bros.
And Mr. Luhrmann uses Amitabh Bachchan, a legendary star in his native India, to make the Jewish gangster Meyer Wolfshiem a leering Fagin.
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In 1996 Australian director Baz Luhrmann won international acclaim for his modern-day version set in Los Angeles, starring Clare Danes and Leonardo diCaprio.
Now Luhrmann feels La Boheme marks the final chapter in his "red curtain work" which included Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge and Strictly Ballroom.
It takes an observer like Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) to distill the finer sentiments from this sorry tale of the super-rich, and Luhrmann isn't that.
By the way, Baz Luhrmann was right to make them big.
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Luhrmann is a well-qualified guide: an anthropologist specializing in esoteric faiths.
Luhrmann - whose debut film Strictly Ballroom was screened at Cannes 21 years ago - said the festival had "always been so close to our hearts".
The reunion between Jay and Daisy is played for laughs (and it gets a couple, too), but Luhrmann shortchanges whatever it is that pulls these lovers together.
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