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Burning Love or Suspicious Minds? 'Elvis' divides Cannes

Cannes (France) (AFP) - Australian director Baz Luhrmann's long-awaited fever dream of a biopic about the King of Rock'n'Roll, "Elvis", split Cannes down the middle on Thursday between cheering admirers and barb-throwing critics.

AFP

Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis receives 12-minute standing ovation at Cannes

Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, defying the odds of being filmed at the height of the pandemic, premiered to a 12-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival.

The New Daily

Who is Austin Butler, the new Elvis star who just got a 12-minute standing ovation at Cannes?

From Nickelodeon to the King of Rock, we break down his life

Evening Standard

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Review: Baz Luhrmann's unruly 'Elvis' shakes up the Cannes Film Festival

CANNES, France — Elvis Presley famously never got the overseas touring career he deserved. He played only three venues outside the U.S., all of them in Canada in 1957, well before reaching peak superstardom. Instead of going international, he remained a fixture of the International Hotel in Las Vegas from…

Los Angeles Times

Elvis review – Baz Luhrmann’s squeaky-clean King is shaking no one up

Incurious yet frantic, Luhrmann’s spangly epic is off-key – and Austin Butler flounders in those blue suede shoes

The Guardian - UK

Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis movie review: Viva Austin Butler, this snake-hipped singer has a hit on his hands

This is the Australian director’s most substantial work since Romeo + Juliet

Evening Standard

Cannes can't help falling in love with 'Elvis'

Cannes (France) (AFP) - Cannes was shaken, rattled and rolled on Wednesday as the world premiere of "Elvis" rocked the film festival on the French Riviera, in what has proven a vintage year for music-lovers.

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Elvis fever set to shake Cannes

Cannes (France) (AFP) - Cannes is set to be shaken, rattled and rolled on Wednesday as the world premiere of "Elvis" rocks the film festival on the French Riviera, in what is proving a vintage year for music-lovers.

AFP

Riley Keough says she didn’t want to star in Elvis biopic about her grandfather: ‘There’s a lot of family trauma’

Actor was not asked by Luhrmann to appear in the film but would have denied if she had been

The Independent UK

Riley Keough left in tears after Austin Butler’s performance of grandfather Elvis Presley in new biopic

Actor said watching the film ‘was a very emotional experience’

The Independent UK

Elvis' granddaughter says watching new biopic 'very intense'

Cannes (France) (AFP) - Elvis Presley's granddaughter, Riley Keough, said Friday it was "very intense" watching the new biopic about the rock'n'roll legend, which premieres at the Cannes Film Festival next week.

AFP

Cannes 2022: 10 movies to watch out for in this year’s festival

Austin Butler shakes his stuff as Elvis, Cronenberg gets creepy, Claire Denis takes on colonial agony and Hirokazu Kore-eda unwraps his first Korean-language film

The Guardian - UK

Political, provocative and preposterous: why Cannes is a ‘cathedral of cinema’

The French cultural institution, which turns 75 this year, has always been a battle between radicalism and elitism – but that’s what makes it so essential

The Guardian - UK

Baz Luhrmann, flamboyant director of Moulin Rouge! and Romeo and Juliet, turns focus to Elvis

Australian director’s biopic about the singing legend to be unveiled at Cannes film festival next week

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The New Daily

Thirty years after Cannes premiere of Strictly Ballroom, the fully restored Aussie classic returns

Aomtfter a rapturous reception in Cannes, the surprise hit suddenly "signalled the beginning of a new era in Australian cinema".

AAP

Strictly Ballroom to screen at Cannes

The restored Australian hit movie Strictly Ballroom will screen at Cannes as part of a selection of classic films.

Daily Mirror

Elvis Presley's wife Priscilla shook up by talent of movie star Austin Butler

The world has not been short of Elvis Presley impersonators since his tragic death at just 42 in 1977. But there has never been one quite like Austin Butler, 30

Asharq Al-Awsat

Summer Movie Preview: Breakout Stars to Watch

Some are newcomers. Some are former child stars reintroducing themselves in adult roles. And one is a comedian making a leap to big screen. These are just a few of the actors poised to make a splash this summer at the movies: Austin Butler in “Elvis” How familiar you are…

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The Independent UK

Summer Movie Preview: Breakout stars to watch

There are more than a few A-list stars coming to the multiplex, and your televisions, this summer

Evening Standard

Who’s who in the new Baz Luhrmann Elvis Presley biopic?

The all-star cast features big names from Tom Hanks to Kodi Smit-McPhee

The Independent UK

Doja Cat’s Elvis movie soundtrack single gets release date

Announcement comes after the 26-year-old singer/rapper debuted the track during her set at Coachella festival

AFP

The Rock brings superheroes to CinemaCon as 'Elvis' returns to Vegas

Las Vegas (AFP) - Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson topped a superhero-packed bill as Warner Bros presented its upcoming slate of blockbusters at CinemaCon on Tuesday, while Baz Luhrmann's "Elvis" graced the Las Vegas casino stage at the movie industry summit.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bounty of pop music fires up the romance, momentum of ‘Moulin Rouge!’ stage musical

The show’s rock-concert-adjacent, frenetic, hallucinogenic, sequin tsunami aesthetic is almost impossible to resist.

The Guardian - UK

Cannes 2022: the alpha auteurs line up for a post-pandemic party

The film festival announces itself back to normal, with a new TikTok partnership and a juicy competition list featuring David Cronenberg, Claire Denis, the Dardenne brothers and Kelly Reichardt

Tribune News Service

‘Elvis’ to make world premiere at Cannes Film Festival

“Elvis” is ready to rock the Cannes Film Festival.

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