Film: 15 May 14: Viggo Mortensen, Cannes Film Festival, Jia Zhangke




The Film Programme show

Summary: Viggo Mortensen discusses film noir and Greek mythology and the part they have to play in his new thriller The Two Faces Of January. Producer Rebecca O'Brien takes us behind the scenes at the Cannes Film Festival, as she prepares to jet off to the South Of France with Ken Loach's new drama Jimmy's Hall. Clare Binns is going to Cannes for a very different reason, to buy films for Picturehouse Cinemas, and reveals how business gets done at the festival; while critic Tim Robey is getting in training to watch 7 movies a day for over a week. Director Jia Zhangke tells Francine why his new blood-soaked epic A Touch Of Sin is not being shown in his home country of China, and why the film could not have been made without the Chinese version of Twitter, Weibo.