- By the time you’re reading this, due to the time difference, Dogma has indeed played the Cannes film festival! Pretty cool, huh? Reactions and details on the actual screening have yet to come in, but MANY thanks go to Pocketwatch for nabbing these excellent shots taken of the cast at a photocall. All the thumbs enlarge to nice, big, clear pics, featuring Linda, Ben, Salma, Alan, and Kevin. Enjoy!
In addition, a new story just came over the wire regarding Dogma (along with David Lynch’s new film) being the top talked-about flicks at this year’s festival. We’ve edited out the Lynch stuff, but the full article appears over at Dogma: RC if you’re interested. For the first time, this piece also reveals a snappy & humorous disclaimer that’s been put on the beginning of the film. A disclaimer before a VA film! We suppose it may ruin the joke if you read it and want to go in totally cold, so consider yourself warned: The disclaimer is mentioned at the end of this article! Here’s more:
By JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press Writer
CANNES, France (AP) – Director David Lynch is well known for his strange, dark, often violent films. Yet at Cannes, he’s come up with a heartwarming movie where nobody dies, nobody is hurt and nobody is even mean.
Kevin Smith is known for small, quirky films that deal with mundane issues like the lives of store clerks. At Cannes, he’s presenting a film about nothing less than good, evil and the Catholic Church.
Both films, presented Friday, are among the most talked-about at this year’s festival.
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Smith’s film could not be more different. In “Dogma,” showing out of competition, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon play angels who try to return to heaven after they are banished. The film also stars Linda Fiorentino as a reluctant descendant of Jesus Christ, Chris Rock as a trash-talking 13th apostle, Alan Rickman as an angel who is the voice of God, and singer Alanis Morisette as God.
The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE:DIS – news), the parent company of Miramax Films, apparently felt it would be inappropriate to release the film under any of the company’s movie labels, including Miramax. So Miramax co-chairmen Bob and Harvey Weinstein formed a separate company to purchase and find a distributor for the film.
Smith, who previously directed “Clerks,” “Mallrats” and “Chasing Amy,” says he knew he was going to ruffle some feathers. But he told a news conference he hoped people would “see the movie for what it is.”
To that end, the film begins with an amusing disclaimer, in which the filmmakers note that God, too, has a sense of humor – witness the platypus.
Then it apologizes to the platypus community.
But the film may be offensive even to those who accept the religious satire. There is plenty of blood and guts, and it is a bit jarring to see charming Matt Damon blowing people away.
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