FRANCE: WORLD PREMIERE OF 'THE UNSAID' AND FRENCH PREMIERE OF 'AI' HELD AT THE AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL IN DEAUVILLE

Record ID: 392008

  • Title: FRANCE: WORLD PREMIERE OF 'THE UNSAID' AND FRENCH PREMIERE OF 'AI' HELD AT THE AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL IN DEAUVILLE
  • Date: 5th September 2001
  • Summary: DEAUVILLE, FRANCE (SEPTEMBER 5TH, 6TH 7TH) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) - HALEY JOEL OSMENT COMMENTING ON BONNIE'S SOUNDBITE: 'I mean so many people, I mean it started with this short story - it went from Stanley to Stephen, communicated to the actors and communicated to the audience, you know. I wouldn't like to say that I alone carried the film because it was just so
  • Embargoed: 20th September 2001 13:00
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  • Location: DEAUVILLE, FRANCE & VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
  • Country: France
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA9IU8PV6SZDLLKR7P10M1ZX665
  • Story Text: Cuban heartthrob Andy Garcia has flown into Deauville for the world premiere of 'The Unsaid. Stephen Spielberg's 'AI' (Artificial Intelligence) also made its French premiere at the American Film Festival.
    An obsession of the late film-making auteur Stanley Kubrick, Spielberg took over the reins as writer and director of the film. Coincidentally, Christiane Kubrick, Stanley's wife of 42 years, was at the Festival as a special guest for the screening of the documentary 'Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures'.
    Andy Garcia attended the world premiere of his latest movie 'The Unsaid' at the 27th American Film Festival, Deauville on Friday 7th September.
    Garcia both Executive Produced and plays the lead in this psychological thriller. As Michael Hunter, Garcia plays a once-brilliant psychologist whose professional and personal life have been shattered after his son's tragic suicide. He comes out of retirement to treat a teenage boy and in doing so, both patient and physician must confront the demons from their past.
    As Michael unearths the boy's terrible secrets, events surrounding his treatment threaten to destroy everything Michael holds dear.
    Asking Garcia about his personal thoughts for the role, he says: 'Why I empathise with the character was his - the tragedy that he was forced into, you know, that fell before him and I was very compelled to see the journey that one goes through, and when I found it to be an heroic journey - to be able to you be able to deal with that in your life when you loose a son to an accident is a tragedy let alone to suicide.' Garcia has also just wrapped filming on Steven Sodebergh's Ocean's 11 alongside an all start cast including George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon. He also recently produced and starred in 'The Man From Elysian Fields' opposite Mick Jagger, James Coburn, Julianna Margulies, Olivia Williams and Anjelica Huston.
    Meanwhile Stanley Kubrick is the talk of Deauville, as Spielberg's A.I receives its French premiere and Stanley's wife for over 42 years, Christiane, makes a guest appearance at a the screening of 'Stanley Kubrick: A life in Pictures' - a documentary narrated by Tom Cruise featuring unseen footage of Kubrick at work and with his family. Tributes include messages from Woody Allen, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Jack Nicholson and Stephen Spielberg to name a few.
    Christiane talks of Tom and Nicole saying: 'They are wonderful, I think Tom and Nicole really loved Stanley and had the rare chance that actors don't often get to take as much time as they like.
    Nicole repeats something that Stanley said, 'you know what is gold in films - time.' Rising star thirteen year-old Haley Joel Osment greeted the fans at the Artificial Intelligence's French premiere. Also starring British actor Jude Law, Frances O'Connor and Brendan Gleeson, 'AI' (Artificial Intelligence) was an obsession of the late film-making auteur Stanley Kubrick since purchasing the rights to a short story called 'Super Toys Last All Summer Long' written by fiction author Brian Aldiss over 30 years ago.
    Developing a friendship whilst Spielberg was in the UK shooting 'Raiders of the lost Ark' in 1979, Kubrick and Spielberg had few face to face meetings but thrived on marathon transatlantic phone calls. It was during one of these calls that Kubrick suggested to Spielberg he should direct 'AI' with Kubrick producing, saying, 'Well, you know, I think this movie is closer to your sensibility than mine'.
    Upon Kubrick's death, Spielberg took up the reins of both writing and directing 'AI' casting Haley Joel Osment as the lead.
    'AI' takes place in a time when natural resources are limited and technology is advancing at an astronomical pace.
    Where you live is monitored, what you eat is engineered and the person serving you is not a person at all. Everything is artificial. Gardening, housekeeping, companionship - there is a robot for every need. Except love.
    However, Cybertronics Manufacturing has created the solution.
    His name is David (Haley Joel Osment). A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David is adopted as a test case by Cybertronics employee (Sam Robards) and his wife (Frances O'Connor), whose own terminally ill child has been cryogenically frozen until a cure can be found. Though he gradually becomes their child, with all the love and stewardship that entails, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final acceptance by humans or machines, and armed only with Teddy, his super-toy teddy bear and protector, David embarks on a journey to discover where he truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and machine is both terrifyingly vast and profoundly thin.
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