BEIJING, April 24 -- The 60th Cannes Film Festival will open May 16 with Wong Kar-wai's first English-language project, My Blueberry Nights, which will play in competition, festival organizers have announced.
This is the first Hong Kong-produced film to be invited to open Cannes.
"My Blueberry Nights" tells the story of a blueberry-pie-eating girl traveling across the vast expanses of the United States of America, searching, like all of Wong's protagonists, for the meaning of "love".
The film stars British and American big names, such as superstar chanteuse Nora Jones, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Natalie Portman, and David Strathairn.
Its production team is also a mix of eastern and western talents, with American crime writer Lawrence Block as the screenplay writer, French Darius Khondji as the cinematographers, William Chang from Hong Kong as the production designer and editor, as well as an American camera crew.
Said Wong Kar-Wai, after the news reached him, "It is a great honor for the film to be invited. I'm looking forward to coming back to Cannes, to lift the curtain with my production, on the celebration of its 60th birthday.Ħħ
"My Blueberry Nights" is an international film nonetheless embracing the spirit of Hong Kong film, Wong Kar-Wai added.
Wong Kar-Wai has been a frequent visitor to Cannes since the 1990s. He won the Best Director prize in 1997 for the film "Happy Together". His protagonist Tony Leung was the judged Best Actor in 2000 for "In the Mood for Love". In 2006, Wong Kar-Wai headed the jury for the 59th Cannes festival, becoming the first Chinese jury president in its history.
(Source: CRIENGLISH.com)
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Wong Kar-wai at the 59th Cannes on May 15, 2006. (File photo: Beijing Evening News)
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