From October 8th to 11th 2009, I'm videoblogging and photoblogging le Festival du Film Britannique de Dinard - the Dinard Festival of British Film.
I've been flown over to Dinard by the Festival's PR company, along with a mass of people from the industry and press - to cover it on the web, as it happens.
But this is not an official blog. It won't be full of polite and polished praise. It's just me, doing my thing. Exactly as I do at twittervlog.tv.
I'll be tweeting news and results at http://twitter.com/ruperthowe - so follow me there, too.
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Jury press call on the Thalassa Hotel terrace with Hugh Bonneville and Sally Hawkins and lots of French celebs whose names I should know. I got all girlishly starstruck with Sally Hawkins because Happy Go Lucky was my favourite film of the last year and she's just like her character... while all the other men went silly for the femme fatale poledancing with the union jack.
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Panoramic photos taken with the Nokia N86 8MP
Click these panoramic thumbnails to see them larger, in Flickr
Shot with the Nokia N86 8MP cameraphone, with panoramic function
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Shot with the Nokia N86 8 megapixel cameraphone. There are the first photos I've shot with its auto panoramic feature.
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First off for me today was Dominic Murphy's White Lightnin', in the very very pre-watershed 10.30 spot. It's a British film set and shot in the Appalachian Mountains of the USA - quite a bold move for a Brit flick. And he pulled it off, I think. If it's like anything, it's maybe like a film version of Vernon God Little. But more graphic. I hope nobody in the audience this morning had had a big breakfast. Murphy introduced it, saying that the film that has most influenced him is The 400 Blows, and that we'd see some allusions to it in White Lightnin'. He also said that he'd always been a good boy, but was drawn to stories about delinquents - and that when his mother saw this film, she'd said "Ah, it's your [Jungian] shadow". Good boy or not, White Lightnin' is a powerful portrait of addiction. And it stars Carrie Fisher!
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