For 12 days starting Tuesday, the Cannes film festival will be a non-stop merry-go-round of movies, stars, interviews and parties. Here are…
For 12 days starting Tuesday, the Cannes film festival will be a non-stop merry-go-round of movies, stars, interviews and parties. Here are some figures to put the event into perspective:
19 The number of golden fronds on the 18-carat gold Palme d’Or which will go to the winning film. The trophy, worth 20,000 euros ($22,000), is made by Swiss jewellers Chopard.
276 The length in minutes of “Ang Hupa,” the longest film at Cannes, by the Filipino director Lav Diaz — at four hours 36 minutes. It is followed closely in the “slow cinema” stakes by the “Mektoub My Love: Intermezzo”, the second part of a steamy trilogy by the French-Tunisian Abdellatif Kechiche, who won the Palme d’Or with “Blue is the Warmest Colour”. But they are mere shorts compared to the all-time Cannes record-holder Ken Burns, whose documentary on World War II — later broadcast as a series — ran to 14 hours.
0 The number of times Cannes regular Pedro Almodovar has won the Palme d’Or.
