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CANNES, France (AP) – Thirty-nine years later, Jack is still not a boring boy.
In a new primitive restoration, Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" was presented at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday night. This is the second year in a row that a Kubrick film has landed on the Croisette, after last year when Christopher Nolan presented what he called an "unrestored" version of "2001: A Space Odyssey" ".
This time, Alfonso Cuaron presented the film alongside Kubrick's daughter, Katharina Kubrick, and Leon Vitali, Kubrick's longtime assistant. Vitali himself was featured in the 2017 documentary "Filmworker", also presented at Cannes.
"If no one has seen it on the screen before, it's a completely different experience," Vitali told the crowd. "Do not worry, you'll all come out alive here."
The presence of Cuaron at Cannes was notable. His film "Roma" was screened for the first time at the French festival last year. But when Netflix and the festival could not agree on the distribution terms of the streaming giant's films, Netflix withdrew from Cannes and "Roma" went to the Venice Film Festival , where he won the Golden Lion Award.
Cuaron did not supervise the restoration "The Shining". That role goes to Steven Spielberg, whose 2018 science fiction thriller, "Ready Player One," includes a long tribute to "The Shining." But Cuaron praises "The Shining", while playfully inducing conspiracy theorists to search the film for a hidden meaning.
"In fact, tonight we are going to look at it from the back, because we are going to see it with the message Kubrick (intended)," joked Cuaron.
The "Room 237" documentary from 2012 recounted some of these theories, including that "The Shining" is actually about landing on the moon or the treatment of Native Americans. Katharina Kubrick used a swear word to describe the guessing games around "The Shining".
"It's a really cool ghost movie. Do not believe conspiracy theories because everything is, "she said. "I only said that because I had champagne."
Cuaron agreed. "Kubrick would have really laughed at all those conspiracy theories," said the director. "According to all reports, he believed that movies should not be explained but experienced. A bit like music, he said.
The restoration "The Shining" will be published in the house video on October 1st.
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