Back story: For the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival in 2007, Gilles Jacob, the festival’s president, invited 35 directors to each create a three-minute short film inspired by the motion picture theatre experience.
The resulting anthology, To Each His Own Cinema (Chacun son cinéma), is available on DVD, and it features 33 films by luminaries including Jane Campion, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Gus Van Sant, Wong Kar-Wai, and the ever-scandalous Roman Polanski.
Three films were delivered too late for the DVD release: a second short by Walter Salles, Absurda by David Lynch and World Cinema by Joel and Ethan Coen.
Fast forward and thank heaven for YouTube, where you can see World Cinema. It stars Josh Brolin as a guy puzzling over which film to see at a theatre. Ceylan’s Climates by Nuri Bilge? The Rules of the Game by Jean Renoir?
There's a funny line regarding a rabbit, which works if you’ve seen The Rules of the Game. I won’t tell you which movie Josh chose. To find out, click here.
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