I’ve been talking about this movie for a while now ( check the Archives people so i’m v. happy that it got rave reviews at The Cannes Film Festival.
Lee Daniels was his usual bubbly self
“I’m waiting for somebody to yank the rug from under me and tell me, ‘Negro, you are not in Cannes. You are in Kan-sas.’
And the international press were quite suprised that Mariah wasn’t the Diva that they thought she was.
Hard-hitting US indie movie “Precious,” the tale of an obese teenager trying to escape a lifetime of abuse, won a standing ovation for its director Lee Daniels at the Cannes festival Friday.
Daniels was moved to tears by the enthusiastic welcome for his film, which picked up the Grand Jury prize at Sundance and is running on the Riviera for the Un Certain Regard prize for new film talent.
The director was flanked by his mother, and by US singers Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz, who both hold supporting roles in the film — she as a dowdy social worker and he as a male nurse — and who brought a splash of glamour to the red-carpet screening.
Set in 1980s Harlem, Daniels’ harrowing film is the story of an illiterate black teenager, crushed by abuse and pregnant with her second child, who finds a chance to escape a dead-end life through a learn-to-read scheme.
The director said before the screening of his film, which is adapted from the Novel “Push” by Sapphire, that he was “deeply honoured” to be in Cannes. “It is a dream, and it is a far cry from where I came from,” he told the audience.
Precious a Smash Hit Success at 2009 Cannes Film Festival
I’ve been talking about this movie for a while now ( check the Archives people
so i’m v. happy that it got rave reviews at The Cannes Film Festival.
Lee Daniels was his usual bubbly self
And the international press were quite suprised that Mariah wasn’t the Diva that they thought she was.
Hard-hitting US indie movie “Precious,” the tale of an obese teenager trying to escape a lifetime of abuse, won a standing ovation for its director Lee Daniels at the Cannes festival Friday.
Daniels was moved to tears by the enthusiastic welcome for his film, which picked up the Grand Jury prize at Sundance and is running on the Riviera for the Un Certain Regard prize for new film talent.
The director was flanked by his mother, and by US singers Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz, who both hold supporting roles in the film — she as a dowdy social worker and he as a male nurse — and who brought a splash of glamour to the red-carpet screening.
Set in 1980s Harlem, Daniels’ harrowing film is the story of an illiterate black teenager, crushed by abuse and pregnant with her second child, who finds a chance to escape a dead-end life through a learn-to-read scheme.
The director said before the screening of his film, which is adapted from the Novel “Push” by Sapphire, that he was “deeply honoured” to be in Cannes. “It is a dream, and it is a far cry from where I came from,” he told the audience.
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