After weeks of speculation, festival chief Thierry Fremaux has finally announced the official selection of films that will be showing at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Here are the entries that will be screened in the MAIN COMPETITION:
- L’Apollonide by Bertrand Bonello
- Drive by Nicolas Winding Refn
- Footnote by Joseph Cedar
- Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai by Takashi Miike
- Le Havre by Aki Kaurismäki
- Hanezu No Tsuki by Naomi Kawase
- The Kid With The Bike by The Dardenne Brothers
- Melancholia by Lars Von Trier
- Michael by Markus Schleinzer
- Once Upon A Time in Anatolia by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Parter by Alain Cavalier
- Polisse by Maiwenn
- The Skin that I Inhabit by Pedro Almodóvar
- Sleeping Beauty by Julia Leigh
- La source des femmes by Radu Mihaileanu
- This Must Be The Place by Paolo Sorrentino
- The Tree of Life by Terrence Malick
- We Have a Pope by Nanni Moretti
- We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lynne Ramsay
The other sections after the jump…
OUT OF COMPETITION
- The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius
- The Beaver by Jodie Foster
- La conquête by Xavier Durringer
- Kung Fu Panda 2 by Jennifer Yuh
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides by Rob Marshall
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
- Labrador by Frederikke Aspöck
- Le maître des forges de l’enfer by Rithy Panh
- Un documentaire sur Michel Petrucciani by Michael Radford
- Tous au Larzac by Christian Rouaud
UN CERTAIN REGARD
- Bonsaï by Christian Jimenez
- The Day He Arrives by Hong Sang-Soo
- Et maintenant, on va où? by Nadine Labaki
- Halt auf freier Strecke by Andreas Dresen
- Hors Satan by Bruno Dumont
- The Hunter by Bakur Bakuradze
- Martha Marcy May Marlene by Sean Durkin
- Les neiges du Kilimandjaro by Robert Guédiguian
- Restless by Gus Van Sant
- Skoonheid by Oliver Hermanus
- Tatsumi by Eric Khoo
- Ariang by Kim Ki-Duk
- Toomelah by Ivan Sen
- Oslo, August 31st by Joachim Trier
- L’exercice de l’Etat by Pierre Schoeller
- Travailler fatigue by Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra
- Miss Bala by Gerardo Naranjo
- Loverboy by Catalin Mitulescu
- Yellow Sea by Na Hong-jin
A few more titles are rumored to be announced in the following weeks, but for the most part, these are the “big dogs” of the fest this year. Thoughts?
A lot of surprises this year. Personally, I'm most excited for The Tree of Life (duh), The Skin that I Inhabit and We Need To Talk About Kevin.
ReplyDeletePlus Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris will be there as well, since that was already announced.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why Woody Allen never enters his films into the competition?
ReplyDeleteHe doesn't care for "competitions".
ReplyDeletePretty much
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