The Cannes Film Festival Blog

FEATURE FILMS Palme d'Or LA VIE D’ADÈLE - CHAPITRE 1 & 2 (Blue Is The Warmest Colour) by Abdellatif KECHICHE with Adèle EXARCHOPOULOS & Léa SEYDOUX Grand Prix INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS by Ethan COEN and Joel COEN Award for Best Director Amat ESCALANTE for HELI Jury Prize SOSHITE CHICHI NI NARU (Like Father, Like Son / Tel Père, Tel Fils) by KORE-EDA Hirokazu Award for Best Screenplay JIA Zhangke for TIAN ZHU DING (A Touch Of Sin) Award for Best Actress Bérénice BEJO in LE PASSÉ (The Past) by Asghar FARHADI Award for Best Actor Bruce DERN in NEBRASKA by Alexander PAYNE SHORT FILMS Palme d'Or SAFE by MOON Byoung-gon Special Mention - Ex-aequo HVALFJORDUR (Whale Valley / Le Fjord des Baleines) by Gudmundur Arnar GUDMUNDSSON 37°4 S by Adriano VALERIO CAMERA D'OR ILO ILO by Anthony CHEN presented in the Directors' Fortnight

Since it always takes me 15 minutes to find the whole schedule or even what's on today on the official site, here's the Cannes Film Festival 2013 screening schedule in one quick click.

This was a day where reality in Cannes seemed to try to match the movies - first more than one million dollars of Chopard jewelry get stolen in a heist, then (fake) shots are fired during a live television broadcast and two jury members need to rush for cover. Despite all the upset, the day ended with a beautiful sunset (how's that for a transition?) - some pix below

Just got home from the first day - not a great start, rain started right on time for opening red carpet, and then didn't stop until now. Seems tomorrow will be the same. A pity, opening with "The Great Gatsby" sounded like a great idea - but even the opening red carpet ceremony wasn't quite what was expected - nothing comparable to the Can Can Dancers they brought in for "Moulin Rouge" in 2001. Anyway, a few pix from the first evening:

The first trailers are now available on the official 2013 Cannes Film Festival site . Only four commpetition films for now, but presumably this list will be complete once the festival starts on May 15. "Only God Forgives" with Ryan Gosling "The Past" "The Great Beauty" - new movie from Director Paulo Sorrentino "A Castle in Italy" - directed by Valeria Bruni, sister of Carla Bruni (wife of former French president Sarkozy)