Updated 04/19 – Critics’ Week Selection added!
As expected, some big asian names will be at Cannes. This year’s official selection isn’t definitive, some films are yet to be announced.
• In Competition
“The Housemaid” by Im Sang-soo (SK) – Trailer
“Poetry” by Lee Chang-dong (FR/SK) – Trailer
“Outrage” by Takeshi Kitano (JP) – Trailer
“Uncle Boonme who can Recall his Past Lives” by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thaï)
“Hors la loi” by Rachid Bouchareb (FR)
“Tournée” by Mathieu Amalric (FR)
“Biutiful” by Alejandro González Iñárritu (US)
“The Certified Copy” by Abbas Kiarostami (FR/IT/IR)
“La Princesse de Montpensier” by Bertrand Tavernier (FR)
“Burnt by the Sun 2″ by Nikita Mikhailov (GE/FR/RU)
“Un homme qui crie” by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (FR/TC)
“You my joy” by Sergeï Loznitsa (UKR)
“Des hommes et des dieux” by Xavier Beauvois (FR)
“Fair Game by Doug Liman” (US)
“La nostra vita” by David Luchetti (IT/FR)
“Another Year” by Mike Leigh (UK)
• Un Certain Regard
“Socialisme” by Jean-Luc Godard (FR)
“Ha Ha Ha” by Hong Sang-soo (SK) – Trailer
“Chatroom” by Hideo Nakata (US)
“Chongqing Blues” by Xiaoshuai Wang (CN)
“Rebecca H.” by Lodge Kerrigan (US)
“Heartbeats” by Xavier Dolan (CA)
“Anjelica” by Manouel de Oliveira (PT)
“Blue Valentine” by Derek Cianfrance (US)
“Aurora” by Cristi Puiu (RO/FR/GE/SZ)
“Los Labios” by Ivan Fund and Santiago Loza (AR)
“Adrienn Pal” by Agnes Kocsis (HU/NE/FR/AU)
“The City Below” by Christoph Hochhausler (GE)
“Udaan” by Vikramaditya Motwane (IN)
“Life Above All” by Oliver Schmitz (SA)
“Simon Werner a Disparu…” by Fabrice Gobert (FR)
“Tuesday, After Christmas” by Radu Muntean (RO)
“Octubre” by Daniel Vega
“R U There” by David Verbeek
• Out of Competition
“Wall Street 2″ by Oliver Stone (US)
“You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger” by Woody Allen (US/SP)
“Tamara Drew” by Stephen Frears (UK)
• Midnight Screenings
“Kaboom” by Gregg Araki (US)
“L’Autre monde” by Gilles Marchand (FR)
• Special Screenings
“Abel” by Diego Luna (MXC)
“Nostalgia de la luz” by Patricio Guzman (CL)
“Inside Job” by Charles Ferguson (UK)
“Over your cities grass will grow” by Sophie Fiennes (NE)
“Braquila l’Italia che prema” by Sabina Guzzanti (IT)
“Chantrapas” by Otar Iosseliani (FR/GE)
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THE CANNES CRITICS’ WEEK
• Competition
“Bedevilled” by Jang Cheol-So (SK) – details in french
“Bi, Don’t Be Afraid” by Phan Dang Di (VT-FR-GE) – details in french
“Sandcastle” by Boo Junfeng (SG) – details in french
“Armadillo” by Janus Metz (DEN)
“Belle epine” by Rebecca Zlotowski (FR)
“The Myth of the American Sleepover” by David Robert Mitchell (US)
“Sound of Noise” by Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjarne Nilsson (SE-FR)
• Special screenings
“The Names of Love” by Michel Leclerc (FR)
“Rubber” by Quentin Dupieux (FR)
“Copacabana” by Marc Fitoussi (FR)
• Competition Shorts
“A distracao de Ivan” by Cavi Borges (BZ)
“Berik” by Daniel Joseph Borgman (DEN)
“The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Lion” by Alois Di Leo (UK)
“Deeper Than Yesterday” by Ariel Kleiman (AUS)
“Love Patate” by Gilles Cuvelier (FR)
“Native Son” by Scott Graham (UK)
“Vasco” by Sebastien Maudenbach (FR)
• Special Screenings — Shorts and medium-lenght films
“L’amour-propre” by Nicolas Silhol (FR)
“Cynthia todavia tienes las llaves” by Gonzalo Tobal (AR)
“Fracture” by Nicolas Sarkissian (FR)
• To sum it up: Kitano, Nakata Lee Chang-dong, Im Sang-soo, Hong Sang-soo, Xiaoshuai Wang, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Vikramaditya Motwane…
Via Cannes PR, SemaineDeLaCritique
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A daring selection with many french coproductions, direct-to-international-festivals movies, established auteurs. Ha Ha Ha
Why so much hate Rizjaune, what were you expecting from Cannes? Why cinefils have to be so serious? Try Udine, Toronto or Nippon Connection next time.
As expected, the best films should be at Le Marche du Film, my guess : Miike’s 13 Assassins, Norwegian Wood, Sushi Typhoon prods, Kim Jee-woon’s I Saw The Devil, The Murderer, WKW’s Grandmaster, Ip Man 2, Dream Home, Fire Of Conscience… A fucking goot year !!
Cannes ou le festival de la frime et de la vanité. Incommensurabilité avidité et superficialité y sera représenter en grande pompe.
I’ll say this: I’d take Cannes over the Oscars any day.
What he said.