- Title: Cast of 'The Meyerowitz Stories' walks the red carpet at Cannes
- Date: 21st May 2017
- Summary: CANNES, FRANCE (MAY 21, 2017) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** WOMAN ON CARPET PHOTOGRAPHERS WOMAN ON CARPET VARIOUS OF ARAYA HARGATE VARIOUS OF ACTRESS ANDIE MACDOWELL VARIOUS OF ACTRESS CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG VARIOUS OF ACTRESS AND MODEL LAETITIA CASTA ON CARPET POSING FOR PICTURES ACTRESS JESSICA CHASTAIN POSING WITH JURY MEMBERS PHOTOGRAPHERS CHASTAIN RED CARPET VARIOUS OF WOMAN PHOTOGRAPHERS VARIOUS OF OLGA KURYLENKO VARIOUS OF SINGER, MARY J BLIGE CROWD WITH ACTOR ADAM SANDLER TAKING PHOTOS ACTOR BEN STILLER WALKING ALONG FANS TAKING PHOTOS (L-R) DUSTIN HOFFMAN, BEN STILLER, DIRECTOR NOAH BAUMBACH, EMMA THOMPSON, ADAM SANDLER POSING FOR PICTURES PHOTOGRAPHERS TEAM WALKING, EMMA THOMPSON RED CARPET TEAM POSING FOR PHOTOS THOMPSON AND STILLER PHOTOGRAPHERS AND TEAM STILLER, HOFFMAN AND THOMPSON POSING CAST HOFFMAN AND CAST MEN ON STEPS / CAST WALKING CAST WALKING UP STEPS PHOTOGRAPHERS WAITING HOFFMAN
- Embargoed: 4th June 2017 20:16
- Keywords: Dustin Hoffman The Meyerowitz Stories Cannes film festival
- Location: CANNES, FRANCE
- City: CANNES, FRANCE
- Country: France
- Topics: Celebrities,Arts / Culture / Entertainment,Sport
- Reuters ID: LVA0016HS7KNH
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Ben Stiller returns to the screen as Dustin Hoffman's son, this time alongside half-brother Adam Sandler in an intellectual comedy that Hoffman hopes audiences will find funny rather than just "interesting".
"The Meyerowitz Stories", which screened at Cannes on Sunday (May 21), is written and directed by Noah Baumbach, whose dialogue-heavy New York movies are often compared to mid-career Woody Allen. This is no "Meet the Fockers".
About the fractured relations between Hoffman's four-times married almost-famous sculptor and his offspring, "Meyerowitz" is a long way from the knockabout comedies that Sandler and Stiller are best known for.
Hoffman, who soared to fame in "The Graduate" in 1967, said he resented people telling him they grew up with his movies.
When a journalist prefaced her question by congratulating the filmmakers on an "interesting" film, Hoffman chipped in: "That's not a good word ... you really didn't like it!"
But the movie got plenty of laughs at the press screening and the first reviews were good.
A Netflix film, one of two in competition at Cannes, "Meyerowitz" will not get a full cinema release, something that has caused controversy at the film festival where jury head Pedro Almodovar said he did not think a film not shown on the big screen should get a Palme d'Or.
Baumbach, who said he made "Meyerowitz" to be shown in cinemas, joked that the movie would be screened in Hoffman's living room, which, the actor said, had "a very big screen". - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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