Heavy competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival, which was announced earlier today in France. As stated earlier, the new Pixar 3D film Up! will open the fest, and it will be closed by that other Coco Chanel film Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, from director Jan Kounen (Dobermann) with Anna Mouglalis and Mads Mikkelsen. New films from a number of previous Palme d'Or winners will screen in competition, from Lars von Trier (Dancer in the Dark), Jane Campion (The Piano), Quentin Tarantino (Inglorious Basterds) and Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes the Barley). More films in the other various programs will be announced tomorrow. Actress Isabelle Huppert is the head of this year's jury.In Competition
Bright Star - dir. Jane Campion - UK/Australia/France - with Paul Schneider, Kerry Fox, Abbie Cornish
Spring Fever - dir. Ye Lou - China/France
Antichrist - dir. Lars von Trier - Denmark/Sweden/France/Italy - with Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Enter the Void - dir. Gaspar Noé - France/Japan
Face [Visages] - dir. Tsai Ming-liang - France/Taiwan/Netherlands/Belgium - with Laetitia Casta, Lee Kang-sheng, Mathieu Amalric, Jeanne Moreau, Fanny Ardant, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Baye
Les herbes folles - dir. Alain Resnais - France/Italy - with André Dussollier, Emmanuelle Devos, Sabine Azéma, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny
À l'origine [In the Beginning] - dir. Xavier Giannoli - France - with Gérard Depardieu, Emmanuelle Devos, François Cluzet
Un prophète [A Prophet] - dir. Jacques Audiard - France - with Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup
The White Ribbon [Das weiße Band] - dir. Michael Haneke - Austria/Germany/France - with Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Tukur
Vengeance - dir. Johnnie To - France/Hong Kong/USA - with Johnny Hallyday, Simon Yam, Sylvie Testud
The Time That Remains - dir. Elia Suleiman - Israel/France/Belgium/Italy
Vincere - dir. Marco Bellocchio - Italy/France - with Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Kinatay - dir. Brillante Mendoza - Philippines
Thirst - dir. Park Chan-wook - South Korea/USA - with Eriq Ebouaney, Song Kang-ho
Los abrazos rotos [Broken Embraces] - dir. Pedro Almodóvar - Spain - with Penélope Cruz, Ángela Molina, Lola Dueñas, Rubén Ochandiano, Blanca Portillo, Rossy de Palma, Chus Lampreave
Map of the Sounds of Tokyo - dir. Isabel Coixet - Spain - with Rinko Kikuchi, Sergi López
Fish Tank - dir. Andrea Arnold - UK/Netherlands - with Michael Fassbender, Harry Treadaway
Looking for Eric - dir. Ken Loach - UK/France/Italy/Belgium
Inglourious Basterds - dir. Quentin Tarantino - USA - with Brad Pitt, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Kruger, Mike Myers, Eli Roth, Cloris Leachman, Til Schweiger, Michael Fassbender, Maggie Cheung, Daniel Brühl
Taking Woodstock - dir. Ang Lee - USA - with Demetri Martin, Liev Schreiber, Emile Hirsch, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Paul Dano, Eugene Levy, Kelli Garner, Imelda Staunton, Katherine Waterson
Out of Competition
Drag Me to Hell - dir. Sam Raimi - USA - with Justin Long, Alison Lohman
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - dir. Terry Gilliam - France/Canada - with Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Christopher Plummer, Jude Law, Tom Waits
Agora - dir. Alejandro Amenábar - USA/Spain - with Rachel Weisz
5 comments:
I'm pleased and surprised by the Noe and Resnais being in competition, and an Ugh for the Chan-wook park. I'll put my money on the Tsai for the Palme, only because the Almodovar already preemed in Spain.
Honestly, I don't care for any of Resnais' recent work, so I can't say I'm thrilled to see it (I've also have yet to find a Bellocchio film that I like, so if anyone has any recommendations for him, let me know). Instead, I'm anxious for the new Andrea Arnold, along with some of the more obvious choices.
PS: The Korean poster for Thirst is alluring though.
it is nice, but so was oldboy's poster.
I still need to see Red Road.
Red Road is almost a great film, and I think it fails as a result of its screenplay, not by any fault of Arnold's. You should also check out her short Wasp, which won the Oscar for Best Short Subject.
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