Great, great news everyone! Mélanie has made her first appearance at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. According to this article, Mélanie arrived at Cannes on Monday. Thanks to Mariana, we have the translated article. I’ll be posting it at the end of this news feed. Mélanie attended the screening of a movie entitled “Che”, looking simply radiant, and dawning a very brunette color. I’m going to try and collect more pictures from this event, but so far I haven’t been able to find too much. However, stay tuned for more updates!

At 25 years old and despite a whooping-cough that is killing her voice, Mélanie Laurent is living on a little cloud. The reason? She’s just finished a 7 minute long short film called “De Moins En Moins”, the story of a “patient who, in her psychologist’s office, starts to remember less and less”. She’s also signed for a long feature film, will play as an actress in a film this Summer, and will direct a stage play in Paris, near the Champs-Elysées. “I’m starting to get recognized but nobody bugs me. There’s no hysteria or intimate embraces. I’m at a perfect inbetween place”.

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Whilst away, and taking care of my personal business, lots of information and news has been released about Mélanie’s 7 minute short film, that is premiering at this years prestigious Cannes Film Festival. According to the official Cannes website, this is the synopsis of the film.

Lisa, a young woman, tries to remember moments in her life with the help of her doctor. Voices resonate, images intermingle… moments of happiness suddenly appear. A few seconds later, she has already forgotten. The disease progresses. Life fades away.

Boyfriend, Julien Boisselier, plays the fiancé of Lisa. Also, famed French actress, Mélanie Doutey also appears in this film as what is simply known as “the friend” at this point. I’m not sure if the film has been viewed yet by the Cannes crowd, but no reviews have been found just yet. Mélanie also has not shown up to Cannes yet, so I’m assuming this means De Moins En Moins was not yet reviewed.

A PDF of the film Poster and information sheet was released on the Cannes website, and we now have it in our gallery for everyone to view. I decided, since my time will be very limited from now on, to turn gallery registration back on. So, if you inquired about this issue before and haven’t received a reply from me concerning it, you may now make your own login.

An a short update here, but Mélanie has signed onto a new role. She’ll play alongside François Berléand and Miou-Miou in a film about a Russian maestro who gets fired for refusing to dismiss his Jewish musicians, called “Le Concert/The Concert”. Filming begins on 18th May in Romania, Moscow and France.

I added about 35 or so captures from a more Mélanie-centric version of the Paris trailer. Though it’s must shorter, and not as in depth, it shows some scenes not seen before in the other trailer. I thought I would add those captures now, to help movie-goers watch “Paris”, which is still in theatres now! I will be adding the video clip later on, so stay tuned for that!

GALLERY LINKS:
• Movie Productions > Paris > Theatrical Trailer - Captures

Great, great news everyone! An amazing visitor had the video of Mélanie appearing on “Le Grand Journal” we had as an exclusive here before the site was hacked, saved on their computer, and kindly donated it back to us!! I was able to make screencaptures of the video, and I will be adding the video soon enough! But for now, if you hadn’t seen the images from before, make sure you check them out in our gallery now!!

GALLERY LINK:
• Talk Shows and Broadcast Interviews > “Le Grand Journal” (Apr. 4th 2008)

Thanks to Violette of tFS , outtakes from the editorial feature in the November 2007 Elle France issue have been added to the gallery. According to Violette, the magazine spread features an extensive interview, but she was unable to scan it. Unfortunately, the image quality and size isn’t that grand, and only 3 individual shots have been added. However, they’re still gorgeous, and show off a slightly different side of Mélanie. Again, a huge thanks to Violette for finding these, and hopefully magazine scans will be donated soon enough!