“I’m trying to be optimistic,” Thierry Fremaux, the Delegate General of the Cannes Film Festival told Variety in a just-upped piece about American films missing at this years festival, “but Terry [Malick] told me personally that it won’t be ready.”
We might as we all just cross Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” off our 63rd Annual Cannes Film Fest list and move on. Nothing to see here. Don’t know about you, but that sounds pretty damn definitive to us. Also, why oh why are pundits surprised ever year that American films don’t dominate? The last time there were a significant amount of American films in competition (five of them) was 2007, and one of them was “Death Proof” (sorry, that doesn’t count, the French just adore Quentin — and you know he woulda said no to out of competition).