Photo: APActors
Matthew McConaughey, left, and Naomi Watts pose for photographers
during a photo call for the film The Sea of Trees, at the 68th
international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 16,
2015.
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left, direct Gus Van Sant, Matthew McConaughey and Naomi Watts pose for
photographers at the photo call for film The Sea of Trees, at the 68th
international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 16,
2015. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)
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Gus Van Sant and Matthew McConaughey speak with each other at the photo
call for the film The Sea of Trees, at the 68th international film
festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 16, 2015. (Photo by
Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)
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Photo: APMatthew
McConaughey poses for photographers at the photo call of the film The
Sea of Trees, at the 68th international film festival, Cannes, southern
France, Saturday, May 16, 2015. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)
Photo: APNaomi
Watts and Matthew McConaughey pose for photographers at the photo call
of the film The Sea of Trees, at the 68th international film festival,
Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 16, 2015. (Photo by Joel
Ryan/Invision/AP)
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Photo: APMatthew
McConaughey attends a press conference for the film The Sea of Trees at
the 68th international film festival, Cannes, southern France,
Saturday, May 16, 2015.
Photo: APActors
Matthew McConaughey, left, and Naomi Watts pose for photographers
during a photo call for the film The Sea of Trees, at the 68th
international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 16,
2015.
CANNES, France (AP) — Matthew
McConaughey's remarkable comeback streak in recent years — the so called
"McConaissance" — hit a bump at the Cannes Film Festival premiere of
Gus Van Sant's "The Sea of Trees."
The film, about two men (McConaughey, Ken Watanabe)
who find each other in a Japanese "suicide forest," was greeted harshly
by critics and was loudly booed in its initial screenings to Cannes
media. Ahead of the film's official premiere, McConaughey was sanguine
about the reaction."Anyone has as much right to boo as they do to ovate," McConaughey told reporters Saturday. "The Sea of Trees," which was picked up for U.S. distribution by Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions ahead of the festival, is about a man who wrestles with guilt over a bitter marriage (Naomi Watts plays his wife) and travels to Japan to kill himself.
Variety called the film "a risibly long-winded drama." The Hollywood Reporter slammed it as "woefully sentimental and maudlin." Van Sant recalled that films of his have previously drawn divisive responses in Cannes. His Palme d'Or-winning school shooting drama "Elephant," he said, caused a fist-fight between festival audience members.
McConaughey plays another scientist character — a community college science professor — following last year's brainy space epic "Interstellar." "Interstellar was an exploration out there. This was an exploration in here," said McConaughey, pointing at his chest.
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