Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Micmacs will open the San Francisco Film Festival on and IndieWIRE reports happythankyoumoreplease will be a centerpiece of the 2-week event (April 22 РMay 6). Robert Duvall and Walter Salles are set to receive special awards.
Brazilian director Salles will receive the Founder’s Directing Award, and will additionally appear at the Sundance Kabuki Theatres Wednesday, April 28, at 6:45 pm for “An Evening with Walter Salles,” where the special onstage tribute will include a clip reel of career highlights, an interview and a screening of “In Search of On the Road (a Work in Progress)”, a compilation documentary about Salles’s years-long effort to make a documentary about Jack Kerouac.
The Peter J. Owens Award, honoring an actor whose work exemplifies brilliance, independence, and integrity, will be given to Duvall, who will be on hand at the Castro on Friday, April 30 at 7:30 pm for an onstage interview, retrospective film clips, and a screening of his latest film “Get Low.”
Jeunet described his inspiration for Micmacs, along with two extended clips after the cut.
“You know Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” exclaims Jean-Pierre Jeunet, waving his arms around with excitement. “Well, I wanted to create something funny and imaginative like that: a stupid band of seven people. And also I wanted a story of revenge because I love Once Upon a Time in the West so much.
“I put everything I haveTwo extended clips from Micmacs after the cut. into this film,” laughs Jeunet. “There are no limits — it’s all of my influences at once. Guillaume Laurant, my writing partner, and I note down everything we hear. Then, when we write a script, we open the box of details and use them. Only when the box is packed full of ideas to we start to write. The principle of the Walt Disney Company is to have one idea per shot and I try to do that too.” (Rotten Tomatoes)
