Cannes Film Festival Line-Up

 

I can't deny my relentless excitement every year for the biggest Film Festival in the world. Besides being the biggest, as I said before, there's something about it so dreamful. Twelve days of everything related to the World of Cinema, from stars to marketing, from red carpet to jornalists, from glamour to acclamation, from history to regeneration of Cinema. To early morning press conferences to Midnight Screenings, it's all about one thing, Cinema recognition!

Surprise surprise - "The Tree of Life" is In Competition. Last year the surprise was for the negative, this year is positive.
Surprise of the surprise - Where's "Midnight in Paris"?? Where's Woddy Allen? Are they joking? It's not understandable...it's Paris. It's France.
Unexpected - Jodie Foster will present her film, "The Beaver".
Not surprising - the ones that know the house very well...Almodóver, Lars Von Trier, Gus Van Sant, Paolo Sorrentino and more.
From Sundance, last year "Blue Valentine" got recognition, we'll see how "Martha Marcy May Marlene" is received.
It's always surprising to see the list and at the end it's always daring.

The Couple is back in Cannes, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie with films to represent once again! And that's cool!
But there's always lot of interesting people in here...always waiting for Catherine Deneuve presence...

Competition:
“La Piel Que Habito” (The Skin that I Inhabit), directed by Pedro Almodovar
“L’Apollonide,” directed by Bertrand Bonello
“Drive,” directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
“Footnote,” directed by Joseph Cedar
“Ichimei” (Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai), directed by Takashi Miike
“Le Havre,” directed by Aki Kaurismäki
“Hanezu No Tsuki,” directed by Naomi Kawase
“The Kid With The Bike,” directed by Dardenne Brothers
“Melancholia,” directed by Lars Von Trier
“Michael,” directed by Markus Schleinzer (first film)
“Once Upon A Time in Anatolia,” directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
“Parter,” directed by Alain Cavalier
“Polisse,” directed by Maiwenn
“Sleeping Beauty,” directed by Julia Leigh
“La source des femmes,” directed by Radu Mihaileanu
“This Must Be The Place,” directed by Paolo Sorrentino
“The Tree of Life,” directed by Terrence Malick
“We Have a Pope,” directed by Nanni Moretti
“We Need To Talk About Kevin,” directed by Lynne Ramsay

Out of Competition:
“The Artist,” directed by Michel Hazanavicius
“The Beaver,” directed by Jodie Foster
“La conquête,” directed by Xavier Durringer
“Kung Fu Panda 2,” directed by Jennifer Yuh
“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” directed by Rob Marshall
(Midnight Screenings):
“Wu Xia,” directed by Chan Peter Ho-Sun
“Dias de Gracia,” directed by Everado Gout (first film)
(Special Screenings):
“Labrador,” directed by Frederikke Aspöck (first film)
“Le maître des forges de l’enfer,” directed by Rithy Panh
“Michel Petrucciani,” directed by Michael Radford
“Tous au Larzac,” directed by Christian Rouaud

Un Certain Regard:
“Bonsaï,” directed by Christian Jimenez
“The Day He Arrives,” directed by Hong Sang-Soo
“Et maintenant, on va où ?,” directed by Nadine Labaki
“Halt auf freier Strecke,” directed Andreas Dresen
“Hors Satan,” directed by Bruno Dumont
“The Hunter,” Bakur Bakuradze
“Martha Marcy May Marlene,” directed by Sean Durkin
“Les neiges du Kilimandjaro,” directed by Robert Guédiguian
“Restless,” directed by Gus Van Sant
“Skoonheid,” directed by Oliver Hermanus
“Tatsumi,” directed by Eric Khoo
“Arirang,” directed by Kim Ki-Duk
“Toomelah,” directed by Ivan Sen
“Oslo,” August 31st,” directed by Joachim Trier
“L’Exercice de L’Etat,” directed by Pierre Schoeller
“Trabalhar Cansa,” directed by Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra (first film)
“Miss Bala,” directed by Gerardo Naranjo
“Loverboy,” directed by Catalin Mitulescu
“Yellow Sea,” directed by Na Hong-jin.

Now let us see Robert De Niro and the rest of the Juri have some fun! There'll be no time to sleep. I can't hardly wait.