LOUIS XIII®, in Association With the Film Foundation, Organizes Unique "East Meets West" Conversation Between Iconic Filmmakers Stanley Kwan and Alexander Payne

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LOUIS XIII®, in Association With the Film Foundation, Organizes Unique "East Meets West" Conversation Between Iconic Filmmakers Stanley Kwan and Alexander Payne PR Newswire PARIS, June 7, 2012 PARIS, June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- thDuring the 65 annual Cannes Film Festival, LOUIS XIII® hosted an intimate gathering at the beautiful Majestic Beach.

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LOUIS XIII®, in Association With the Film

Foundation, Organizes Unique "East Meets

West" Conversation Between Iconic

Filmmakers Stanley Kwan and Alexander

Payne

PR Newswire

PARIS, June 7, 2012

PARIS

,

June 7, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

During the 65

th

annual

Cannes

Film Festival, LOUIS XIII® hosted an intimate

gathering at the beautiful Majestic Beach. For the first time, American director

Alexander Payne and Asian director Stanley Kwan had the opportunity to

discuss film and their creative vision in an event titled EAST MEETS WEST in

front of more than 80 journalists and cinephiles.

LOUIS XIII® Cognac, the world's most esteemed spirit from the House of Rémy

Martin®, an official supplier of the

Cannes

Film Festival, forged an exciting

partnership in 2011 with The Film Foundation, the leading non-profit

organization dedicated to film preservation founded by Martin Scorsese.

Coming from different horizons, the two world-renowned filmmakers shared

their thoughts on cinema, discussed their professional individual journeys and

answered questions.

Stanley Kwan discussed a scene from Ozu's movie

TOKYO

STORY and explained

"I remember the first time I saw

TOKYO

STORY: basically, in this

movie '

less is more'

. I was a kid and I really experienced a movie's

power."

Alexander Payne commented,

"Ozu never made a bad film. He worked in

many different genres; in the silent period he made comedies and

thrillers. Essentially he's a comedy director, even in his sentimental

work in the 1950s. He has a profound bittersweet sense of human

comedy. He's an important director not just for Stanley and myself

but for many cineastes. Even when shooting THE DESCENDANTS, I

was thinking of Ozu, with shots of the landscape - the moments of

rest - between the dramatic scenes."

Payne then showed a clip from Sergio Leone's ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE

WEST, a film that was restored by The Film Foundation.

"Sergio Leone's

ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST speaks to the thrill of cinema. For

Leone, the story is an excuse to enter the realm of cinema, to splash

around. I chose the opening credit sequence - which is so playful,

beautiful and thrilling - because it talks of the thirst for cinema."

The two filmmakers ended their discussion by speaking about the nature of film

making.

"The flash of the little idea that can be a movie....that this

idea could be a film, that leads you through the years of actually

making the film, of seeking the financing...and then talking about it

afterwards to audiences - if you're lucky to get distribution. If the

audience senses a good concept in the film, then they know that they

are in good hands with the director,"

said Payne to Kwan.

Kwan responded by saying

"A woman . . . seated next to me in a café,

some words from her, can inspire me; that can be a character in my

next film."

To highlight the quality in LOUIS XIII® that inspires creativity, Stanley Kwan

brought his own "touch" to the East Meets West conversation by revealing a

teaser of his new directorial webisode featuring Zhuang Yong, the Chinese

freestyle gold-medal winner at the Barcelona Olympic Games.

Following the East Meets West conversation, Augustin Depardon, Global Brand

director, invited guests to share a LOUIS XIII® Experience.

"LOUIS XIII® is an

assemblage of 1,200 different eaux-de-vies"

, introduced Depardon.

"The

youngest is 40 years old, the oldest is over 100 years old, so I would

like to raise a glass and toast to the art of preservation, to the art of

creation, and to our two fantastic filmmakers!"

Through the success of its first East Meets West conversation at the 2012

Cannes Film Festival, LOUIS XIII® has officially staked a claim in the art of

cinema, preservation and creation. Here's to many more LOUIS XIII®

moments!