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Is it better to live with a bullet lodged in your brain, even if it means you might drop dead any time? Or would you rather have the bullet taken out and live the rest of your life as a vegetable? Are zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes? Is scrap metal worth more than landmines? Can you get drunk from eating waffles? Can a woman fit inside a refrigerator? What’s the human cannonball world record?
Confused? Yeah, me too. But supposely the latest creation, Micmacs a Tire-Larigot, from french cinema’s favourite, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, is a return to form after a brief hiatus which saw him delve into the world of epic cinema with his war themed A Very Long Engagement. The synopsis above seems to reference his two celebrated works Delicatessen and Amélie, pre empting similar success perhaps? Swapping Audrey Tautou for Dany Boon (he’s big in France), from what I can gather from the trailer the story surrounds some bloke who has been shot in the head. The trailer is in French, donc si vous ne le parlez pas il vous semblera plus confondre que le premier paragraph .

Francis Ford Coppola, famed director of “The Godfather” series, will present his new film Tetro at the festival which begins tomorrow as part of the “Directors Fortnight” which differs from the official programme. Tetro stars Vincent Gallo, who has recently been seen in the summer campaign for H&M, as the films name sake which tells the tale (some are surmising is somewhat autobiographical) of a fractious family with an omnious father and two brothers now reunited in Argentina where the drama then unfolds as past rivalries are relived. See the trailer for yourself:

More of our film scribblings over here.

Tetro’s official website, on the other hand, is over there.