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‘Blueberry’ Debut: Trailer, Words, Images
In a series of firsts for legendary Hong Kong director Wong-Kar Wai (profile), debuting today at The Cannes Film Festival, My Blueberry Nights. Starring: Norah Jones as Elizabeth, Jude Law as Jeremy, Rachel Weisz as Sue Lynne, Natalie Portman as Leslie, David Strathairn as Arnie, and Chan Marshall as Katya. For your approval:
— My Blueberry Nights teaser trailer - via Coming Soon.
— Discovered by The Golden Rock - A Blueberry press-kit for the Cannes premiere(pdf): featuring bios of the director and cast, and some images (such as Jude Law and Chan Marshall together, above) unseen until now. (Non-French readers - you can cut and paste the text into an online translator, such as Babelfish.)
— More high-res images - via Rope of Silicon
— Norah Jones, on her screen debut, and working with WKW, excerpted from Variety:
“It was a very basic script, and we only received it about a week before we started shooting,” Jones says. “Before that, we had a very, very loose treatment. The script changed quite a bit. Often we would come to work and not know what scenes we were doing … and then it would all change and we’d get new pages 15 minutes before we’d go out. But I liked that. Coming from playing music that’s loose and improvisational, I really enjoyed that part of it.”
Reviews coming out of Cannes, and a respite from our MBN fixation to follow shortly.
Update: Just about the first words online about the press screening before the actual premiere: “Through it all, the visuals are seductive, but the English-language dialog by Wong and Lawrence Block falls flat…At the first press screening, a few fans tried to generate some applause, but the screening room quickly fell silent.” - Greg Kilday - Risky Biz. Gulp.
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