Alain Guiraudie’s erotic gay thriller “STRANGER BY THE LAKE (L’INCONNU DU LAC),” which premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard section will be released in the US by Strand Releasing.

Written and directed by Guiraudie, STRANGER BY THE LAKE is set against the backdrop of a cruising spot for men, and centers on Franck (Pierre de Ladonchamps), who finds himself drawn to Michel (Christophe Paou), who may be a killer.

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Carlo Verdone and Sabrina Ferilli, stars of “LA GRANDE BELLAZZA,” directed by Paolo Sorrentino, and the only Italian film in competition at the 2013 Festival de Cannes. The cast which also includes Sabrina Ferilli, Isabella Ferrari as well as Roberto Herlitzka, Iaia Forte, Pamela Villoresi, Galatea Ranzi, Anna Della Rosa and Giusy Merli, Kravos, visited the lounge of Cannes Movie Star at 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

LA GRANDE BELLAZZA is described by the festival as “Aristocratic ladies, social climbers, politicians, high-flying criminals, journalists, actors, decadent nobles, prelates, artists and intellectuals – whether authentic or presumed – form the tissue of these flaky relationships, all engulfed in a desperate Babylon which plays out in the antique palaces, immense villas and most beautiful terraces in the city? They are all there, and they are not seen in a good light? Jep Gambardella, 65, indolent and disenchanted, his eyes permanently imbued with gin and tonic, watches this parade of hollow, doomed, powerful yet depressed humanity. A moral lifelessness enough to make one’s head spin? And in the background, Rome in summer. Splendid and indifferent, like a dead diva?”

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“MIELE”, director Valeria Golino and lead actress Jasmine Trinca in the Cannes Movie Stars Lounge at  the 66th Cannes Film Festival. “MIELE” is an official selection in the Un Certain Regard section of the festival.

MIELE is described as the story of Irene a 30 years old girl who helps suffering people.Terminal patients who want to make shorter the struggle with death, people whose suffering injure the dignity of an human being. One day a 70 years old man in good health, who simply thinks to have lived enough, asks her to help him. The meeting will put to the test Irene’s convictions. It will open a stringent debate between the two. Their relation becomes more and more full of implications and emotional ambiguities.

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Mark Cousins, director of documentary, “A STORY OF CHILDREN AND FILM”  – official selection at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Classics – in The Cannes Movie Stars Lounge.

“A STORY OF CHILDREN AND FILM” is described by the festival as a personal and poetic essay by Mark Cousins which explores what cinema tells us about childhood, and what childhood tells us about cinema, by reference to movies from all around the world. The
is also described as the world’s first movie about kids in global cinema … as seen through 53 great films from 25 countries. 

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Bernardo Bertolucci, the 9-time Oscar winning Italian director and screenwriter of “The Last Emperor”, whose movies include “Last Tango in Paris” (1972), “The Sheltering Sky” (1990), and “The Dreamers” (2003) in The Cannes Movie Stars Lounge at the 66th annual Cannes Film Festival. During the opening ceremony of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Mr. Bertolucci was awarded the “Palme d’Honneur” for his life’s work in film.

The director is in Cannes to present his movie, “The Last Emperor”, which is in the 66th Festival de Cannes Classics Selection. Mr. Bertolucci met with the press in the Cannes Movie Stars Lounge for afternoon TV and print interviews. 

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