Topic “Cannes Film Festival”

By Nekesa Mumbi Moody (The Associated Press)

CANNES, France -- Julianne Moore sometimes identifies with the characters she plays but when it came to playing a bad mother in "What Maisie Knew," she couldn't relate.

In the recently released film, Moore portrays a rock-star mom going through a bitter divorce who's having trouble...

By Kenneth Turan (McClatchy Newspapers)

CANNES, France — “I’m not interested in being safe, and I’m willing to fail because of that,” Nicole Kidman declares, not a shred of doubt in her voice. “I feel very ashamed when I do something safe.”

That may sound like the easy thing for an actor to say sitting in a quiet cabana at the luxurious Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc. But throughout...