And if the 2016 vintage was a good year? Number of prestigious directors will come to Cannes this year, as Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg, or competition, Xavier Dolan, Pedro Almodovar, Ken Loach, Jeff Nichols … French side, four films will compete for the Palme d’Or: those Nicole Garcia, Olivier Assayas, Bruno Dumont and Alain Guiraudie.
the ritual performance of the revelation of the films selected for the Cannes film Festival this year has delivered a solid selection from all points of view. As if the delegate general, Thierry Fremaux, had wanted, even more than in previous years, demonstrate that Cannes remains the festival that has the greatest attraction on the prestigious filmmakers. This strength is reflected first by the arrival of many anticipated films, realized or unrealized by the regulars of the Croisette. So, the selection Un Certain regard, with recent years, a certain disaffection finds a function “discovery”, with no fewer than seven first films – while the competition it does account no. Y still include the Japanese Hirokazu Kore-Eda and Singaporean Boo Jungfeng, noticed the Critics Week in 2010 …
America Strength
the competition should focus more than ever interest. Starting with the strong American contingent, which only Martin Scorsese missing. Woody Allen, which opens the Festival again, five years after Midnight in Paris , refuses him compete. We do not know much about his Cafe Society , except that the action takes place in California in the 30s, when American and European intellectuals flocked to the Pacific coast. The fact that Woody Allen landed on the Croisette waving the banner “auteur film” Amazon, producer and distributor of the film, claiming loudly lately, is an interesting symptom. Especially as Cafe Society is not alone in this case. Jim Jarmusch, too, happened in the camp of the American giant and it presents two films at Cannes: Paterson, competing, bitter chronicle of a couple composed by a bus driver (Adam Driver) and a poetess (Golshifteh Farahani) ; a documentary by “midnight screening,” dedicated to Iggy Pop, the last great old punk still in harm’s way. This can be verified by spending the Croisette …
If Steven Spielberg, with The BFG (The Good big giant) and Jodie Foster, with Money Monster , remain cautiously out of competition, the Americans landed in strength with as Sean Penn, former president of the jury, and Last Face romance between Javier Bardem and Charlize Theron in torments an NGO in Africa. Jeff Nichols, who says, film after film, as one of Cannes darlings, returns. Discovered with Take Shelter at the Critics’ Week and compete with Mud , he signed this year Loving , inspired by the story of a mixed couple (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga) persecuted in the southern United States for 50 years.
Two other films, American made, will compete under their national banner. American Honey of the UK’s Andrea Arnold, very noticeable in 2009 with Fish Tank , follows the journey of a group of young people across the Midwest, from town to town to sell magazine subscriptions on their way, under the leadership of Shia LaBeouf’s, the most unpredictable of the young actors. The merger, in this road movie, the myth of traveling salesmen and the decline of the climate of America, promises … The Dane Nicolas Winding Refn, another darling of Cannes, returns after the mixed reception of Only God Forgives in 2014. the Neon Demon looks like a terrifying journey into the neurotic idolatry devoted to models, in California the cult of the body. Thierry Fremaux has even mentioned the “cannibalism” in its presentation …
Among the other nationalities competing, Asia holds its own with the Filipino Brillante Mendoza ( My Rosa ) and Korean Park Chan-wook ( Agassi ). The very British Ken Loach, veteran of many Cannes spring, returns after twice warned that he would do more films: Daniel Blake denounces several tier health system. For South America, all will rest on the shoulders of former Brazilian Kleber Filho critical Mendoça ( Aquarius ), which had admired neighboring sounds in 2014.
France “international” and Europe …
Just the end of the world , taken from a French play (by Jean-Luc Lagarce ) and its cast 100% hexagonal stars unaccented (Cotillard, Cassel, Seydoux, Ulliel, Baye), Quebec’s Xavier Dolan is launching a challenge to the national labeling, one foot on each continent. This is his second selection in competition, two years after Mommy (Jury Prize in 2014) and status of jury last year. This is also the second stage adaptation of Tom Dolan after the farm, in 2012. Just the end of the World says the return of a thirty son in his family, and his attempt to y announce his imminent death …
also undecidable for the sophisticated thriller Nationality Dutch veteran Paul Verhoeven, it , adapted from a novel by Philippe Djian ( Oh …), produced and shot in Paris with Isabelle Huppert and a troupe of local actors in full (Charles Berling, Laurent Lafitte, Virginia Effira, Judith Magre). Rape, cynicism, misanthropy and perversions program …
The official French contingent of the selection will be more scrutinized it focuses this year in competition – apart from a first film Stéphanie Di Giusti the Dancer , in Un Certain Regard, and a special session for the new Paul Vecchiali, the dunce … Olivier Assayas is, as expected, for Personal Shopper , he toured with Kristen Stewart in the momentum and spirit of Sils Maria (Cannes 2014): American actress again plays the assistant to a celebrity, but dressing aside. Bruno Dumont also featured prominently in the predictions with My Loute : This is the first comedy in film, this maverick director who reinvented himself recently via his TV show P’tit Quinquin . My Loute renewed some burlesque principles, in the same northern landscapes, with Fabrice Luchini, Juliette Binoche and Valeria Bruni Tedschi bourgeois degenerate. The return of Nicole Garcia in Cannes is more surprising, ten years after the mixed reviews received by Charlie Says . His new album, stone Mal , looks like a romantic melodrama, a sad story of passion with Marion Cotillard and Louis Garrel. Finally, the radical Alain Guiraudie, which caused a sensation in 2012 in Un Certain Regard with its sulphurous Unknown Lake access, he, for the first time in the competition, with a film still surrounded mystery, and without known actor, but whose title could better fall in these times of “night stand” vertical Stay …
by the way, this French quartet disappoint the hopes of two serious contenders we pourait well find the fortnight: Katell Quillévéré ( Fix live , according Maylis Kerangal), Rebecca Zlotowski ( Planetarium , with Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Melody Depp).
If Italy is not represented, this time, in competition (a rare and disturbing phenomenon), Romania seems to cross a new state of grace, two authors who already constituted a few years ago the “Romanian new wave”. Cristian Mungiu, Golden Palm in 2007 for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days returns in Bachelor , a contemporary vein, pointing corruption in everyday life . Cristi Puiu, director of memorable Death of Mr. Lazarescu is selected in competition for the first time with Sieranevada , family history and social fatality, surrounded by a rumor . qu’élogieuse more
Germany can be proud to send to Cannes one of only three women in the competition (with Nicole Garcia and Andrea Arnold), and almost the only unknown of the list: Maren Ade, including Toni Erdman is the third feature film. In contrast, Spain is represented by its icon eternal, so far deprived of Palme: Pedro Almodovar. He is the only big name to the poster Julieta podge “hitchcocko-langien” (it borders the oxymoron) without star, which wraps around the guilt of his heroine. All this in full scandal Panama Papers, containing the name of Almodovar brothers … Similarly, the fate of Belgium in Cannes is inseparable from that of brother Dardenne, who, after Cécile de France and Marion Cotillard, set their sights Adèle Haenel on: the young French actress, recently césarisée plays the role of a doctor in Liège the unknown Girl , the new suspense mental, moral and social filmmakers brothers, already holding two Palmes d ‘ gold …
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