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PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 13 april 2018
Spike Lee, Godard films to compete at Netflix-free Cannes

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN on the French Riviera.
PARIS (AP) — The director "It's true that they are very
of the Cannes Film Festival rare, but there are more
called the allegations of and more female direc-
sexual misconduct against tors," Fremaux said. "And I
Harvey Weinstein "an earth- have to say that —Kathryn
quake" for the movie indus- Bigelow aside — all the fe-
try — but he said the quality male directors who broke
of films, not gender quotas, through over the last three
remained the top factor in decades came here to
selecting this year's lineup. show their movies."
Organizers on Thursday un- Fremaux added that his
veiled the 18 movies com- team will discuss their pay
peting for the Palme d'Or equality practices. He not-
prize next month, with a ed that more women than
lineup that includes new men already worked for
movies by Spike Lee and the festival.
Jean-Luc Godard. While acknowledging that
"The world is not the same only one female director
anymore," Thierry Fremaux has won the festival's top
told reporters, referring to prize — Jane Campion for
the Weinstein scandal. "But "The Piano" back in 1993 —
the movies we selected Fremaux said two women,
have been chosen for their Cate Blanchett and Ursula
intrinsic qualities. There will Meier, will preside over the Cannes Film Festival President Pierre Lescure, left, and General Delegate of the Cannes Film Fes-
tival Thierry Fremaux pose during a press conference for the presentation of the 71st Cannes film
never be a positive discrim- official competition and festival, in Paris, Thursday, April 12, 2018.
ination." the Golden Camera juries Associated Press
Although Fremaux said this year.
he recognized the impor- He said this year's selection, but has been banned from protests in Charlottesville, Fremaux also addressed
tance of the #MeToo and which also includes Oscar- leaving his country, was Virginia, where white na- the festival's tense relation-
Time's Up movements, he winning director Pawel held in custody in 2010 for tionalists marched and a ship with Netflix a day after
said the selection process Pawlikowski's new film "Zim- his criticism of Iran. protester was killed. Ted Sarandos, the compa-
for the festival should not in- na Wojna" (Cold War), will Serebrennikov, who is now The film is about the real- ny's chief content officer,
clude gender quotas, and help promote new faces. under house arrest in Rus- life story of Ron Stallworth, said the streaming giant
that all the female directors "There are some people sia, will compete with "Leto" a black police officer in was pulling its films from the
he has spoken with agreed one might not have ex- (Summer), a movie depict- Colorado who went under- French festival.
with him. pected to be there," he ing the life of a Soviet rock cover in 1978 to infiltrate Cannes had earlier banned
Only three female direc- said. musician and the Lenin- the Ku Klux Klan. John Da- any films without theatrical
tors — Nadine Labaki, Alice Among those invited to grad underground music vid Washington plays Stall- distribution in France from
Rohrwacher and Eva Hus- compete are dissident Ira- scene in the 1980's. worth and Adam Driver its top Palme d'Or compe-
son — are on the list of 18 nian film director Jafar Pa- The competition at Cannes plays his partner. tition, essentially ruling out
competing movies. Frem- nahi for "Three Faces" and this year includes Lee's Godard's movie "Le Livre Netflix movies. In France,
aux said a fourth female Russian filmmaker Kirill Sere- "BlacKkKlansman," which d'Image" (The Image Book) films can't be released on
filmmaker could be added brennikov. Panahi, who will open in theaters on is described as a "revolu- home entertainment plat-
to the competition before won the Golden Bear for Aug. 10 — the one-year tionary song in five chap- forms until 36 months after
the May 8-19 event starts best film in Berlin in 2015 anniversary of the violent ters." their theatrical release.q

Friendship becomes something more in 'Love and Other Words'

By LINCEE RAY, tion of infatuation in "Love nect with books and words alizes that what happened
Associated Press and Other Words."When and soon reached the age so many years ago never
Who hasn't wondered at Macy's mother died, her where they discovered changed her deep-rooted
one time or another about father purchased a week- that their relationship could feelings for the boy next
his or her first love? Does he end home a few hours transition into something door.
still like to read? Is she just away so his young daugh- more than just friends. Then Christina Lauren writes a
as sweet? With the help ter could grieve in private, one night, an event oblit- simple love story with a
of a bouncing timeline, away from memories. erated their bond and the flashback twist. Hopping
Christina Lauren takes a Macy adored the house soul mates never saw each from year to year helps the
unique look at the evolu- and dove deeper into her other again. Until now. reader to engage with the
love of books, thanks to a After a decade apart, El- characters on a personal
library her father set up in a liot unexpectedly waltzes level. Macy and Elliot en-
closet. She also surprisingly back into Macy's life. Macy dear themselves to us as
bonded with the boy next is immediately drawn to we watch them grow from
door who liked to lose him- the familiarity of her first their sweet beginnings to
self between the pages of love, which proves to be their current challenges.
a novel. Elliot was just the very inconvenient consid- Readers who enjoy a good
friend Macy needed at the ering she's engaged to an- old-fashioned romance This cover image released by
Gallery Books shows "Love
tender age of 12. other man. But as Elliot and are sure to enjoy "Love and and Other Words," by Chris-
As the years passed, Macy Macy begin to reconnect Other Words." tina Lauren.
and Elliot continued to con- on friendly terms, Macy re- q Associated Press