By Ray Pride Pride@moviecitynews.com
Cafe Cannes: Wells, Wenders and an interesting face
Hollywood Elsewhere’s Jeff Wells finishes his meanders on the Croisette with a vision of a French journo: A wafer-thin and very beautiful brunette woman who does interviews for French TV sat next to me in the van on the way back. She was dressed in a sheer white dress and smelled like jasmine mixed with musk.
He reports as well that he and Wim Wenders had words about this coffee cup [photo credit: Wells, Hollywood Elsewhere] and more: Don’t Come Knocking “is deeply aggravating. I was sitting there trying to decide when to leave. I wanted to see enough so I couldn’t be accused of missing most of it. I knew I was stuck there for a good 90 minutes or so, but I damn sure wasn’t going to sit through all 122 minutes’ worth… [The film] doesn’t have his mood or visual signature or stylistic consistency. It has an unfocused easygoing mood that feels way, way off. The script is sloppy and raggedy-assed…” Wells asks Wenders about this quotation from Manohla Dargis: “Like other artists and intellectuals from abroad, Mr. Wenders seems to have fallen for an America that mostly exists on Hollywood back lots and in rock ‘n’ roll lyrics, which probably explains why the romance has lasted so long.” To this Wenders responded, “I have traveled around this country and gotten to know it better than any film critic I’ve ever met. I don’t think [Dargis] has ever been to Butte, Montana.” I can’t write any more about this, but I had a swell time at the press luncheon and enjoyed speaking to Wenders and Shepard and costars Sarah Polley, Gabriel Mann and Fairuza Balk (who said I had “an interesting face,” which made me feel funny for some reason.) “