Black Sci-fi Comedy About Dysfunctional US Wows Cannes: Southland Tales

FEATURE: Black Sci-fi Comedy About Dysfunctional US Wows Cannes

04:47 PM, May 21st 2006
by Playfuls Team


The state of American society and politics has become an overriding theme at the 2006 Cannes International Film Festival, with no fewer than three major films dealing with that issue in the festival's first week.

On Thursday, Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation exposed the corruption and criminal recklessness behind the US fast food culture, while Saturday An Inconvenient Truth, featuring former US vice president Al Gore, challenged America's ignorance of climate change and its systematic abuse of the environment.

Sunday's presentation, Southland Tales, by 31-year-old Richard Kelly, is the most spectacular and, no doubt, controversial film in many years to deal with what the director himself called "the sad situation we find ourselves in as a country."

Part sci-fi flick, part comedy, part musical, part thriller, Southland Tales features action mega-star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, formerly of Buffy and the Vampire Killers, and pop star Justin Timberlake in leading roles.

The youngest director competing for this year's Palme d'Or for best film, Kelly described his puzzling, often hallucinatory work as "a black comedy about the end of the world."


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This may be a good one.

I heard he was on the anti-terrorism "No Fly" list...seriously