Cannes 2017 Sophie Loubière, writer of the (Blog)... 70th Cannes Festival!

Sophie Loubière a novelist on the crusette: Special column for Le Blogreporter et le Blog de Cannes.

It is with pleasure that I have a drink every year with my friend the novelist Sophie Loubière at the Brasserie du Casino, opposite the Palais des Festivals.

We debate, films in competitions, elegant evenings, and other Festival events. This year I asked her to make a mood note for this 70th Film Festival, which she kindly accepted.

« It's a breath.

A warm breeze that simmers under a dress.

A flag that slams in the wind.

The crackling of a giant screen on the steps of the palace.

Majestic palm trees in a blue sky.

A whole people marching on the red carpet.

Artists. Businessmen. Selfists.

In this kingdom, all miroite, is reflected, dazzled sometimes, and burns like the ephemeral kiss of the sun on the skin.

The palaces are temples where they worship gods and goddesses.

Jewels are true, smiles frozen in a delicious bliss. There is a need to be clear: from the trade in the beauty of women (and also of men), cinema is still being fed.

In the realm of dupes, the starlet will always supplant the author, the filmmaker and the screenwriter. You don't put back a feather (of seagull) but a golden and sparkling palm – not practical to write. More than ever, in a hyper-connected society, the power of image fascinates, dominates, blind.

Ah! The power of the image... Romance, as I would like to write with a camera! To capture the images that come to mind, the one that I put days and nights to write, describe, animate, live. And Cannes to blow me in the ear, like a lover, Do it! Yes, it's possible!

Our history has been 15 years. Driven to the steps of the Palais by the journalist and critic Claude Jean-Philippe the year when THE PLAYER won the award for staging, I come back almost every year to get drunk with this virevoltant energy, build projects of writing and films that may one day be made.

Cannes, this Festival where I hate to go – anguish to feel too alone, too small – and that I leave each time a little too soon. For I would still like to be carried away by its splendor towards paths lined with velvet, encircling this audience in joy that applauds standing the tears of a Japanese filmmaker and her entire team. So I leave, full of emotions, with in my heart the memory of a powerful and upsetting work: Towards the light of Naomi Kawase, and this little phrase in the hollow of the ear Do it! Yes, it's possible!

Sophie Loubière.

BIO & News by Sophie Loubière:

Presented in Cannes this year to meet producers, Sophie Loubière first surveyed La Croisette as a film critic for France Inter. Specialist in film music (she contributed to the creation of the Prix France Musique -UCMF in 2006 awarded to Cannes), she shares her activities on radio and writing.

In 2011, the success of his psychological thriller Child with stones (Editions Pocket) earned him international recognition. Translated into English in some 20 countries, the book is being adapted for cinema (Karé Productions). Author of 9 novels, Sophie Loubière continues her journey between shadow and light with an American trilogy, passing from the chimeric Eldorado of Route 66 in Black coffee (Editions Pocket) at the sinuous paths of tortured souls with White coffee (Fluve Editions).

Cannes 2017 Sophie Loubière, writer of the (Blog) Festival...

His novels, carried by an enchanting atmosphere, bluffing intrigues and unusual settings, question what deeply affects the hearts: family relations, love betrayals, lies.

From her finely chiseled pen, she leads the police novel to unexpected depths. On the news side, a police show project for TV (K&K Prod.) is in the pipes and the third part of its trilogy Bloody Coffee in writing.

To learn more about Sophie and her last two novels, two blogs:

http://blackcoffee66.blogspot.fr/

http://whitecoffee66.blogspot.fr/

There are the trailers of the American trilogy that Sophie Loubière made from photos and documents preparatory to writing her novels, a film trailer (With Viggo Mortensen and Diane Kruger):

Black coffee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RLBu03qZV4

White coffee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sco5JDQ8pI8On Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/SophieLoubiereOfficial/