“Monsieur, your life will never be the same again.”
After 10-minute-long standing ovation for “Elvis,” an emotional Baz Lurhmann’s told the story of how the Cannes Film Festival changed his life decades ago ... #Cannes2022
After 10-minute-long standing ovation for “Elvis,” an emotional Baz Lurhmann’s told the story of how the Cannes Film Festival changed his life decades ago ... #Cannes2022
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00:00We are back in Cannes and to see these streets so full of people who love movies, of every
00:21form of life, of every background, of every kind of movies, says so much more about what
00:26this place means and what it means to be back in the cinema.
00:31So for that we are eternally grateful, Cannes.
00:44Thirty years ago, my wife and I, we made a little film called Strictly Ballroom and on
00:54that film we had one exhibitor who gave us one screen and he saw the film and he left
01:01before it finished and he said, that is the worst film I have ever seen.
01:07Anyway, we went up the coast and I had very long hair and we were staying at a trailer
01:11park and I was thinking this film thing is never really going to work out, you know.
01:15So I started shaving my hair off and I got a call on the telephone and it was a French
01:23man and he said, hello, my name is Pierre, forgive my accent, my name is Pierre Risson,
01:30I am from the Cannes Film Festival and we have seen your film and we would like to offer
01:35you a 12 o'clock screening at the Palais.
01:39We were in this Palais, we had nothing and at the end of the performance, it was a small
01:46crowd but they came to us and I remember a security guard came over and he grabbed me
01:51and he said, monsieur, from this moment on your life will never be the same again.
01:57And it wasn't.
02:08This has been, all I can say is, merci beaucoup, merci beaucoup.