As I was expecting, CATHERINE DENEUVE AND ADÈLE HAENEL'S new film, by the french filmmaker André Techiné will be showing at the this year's Cannes Film Festival - Out of Competition.
L’Homme qu’on aimait trop by André TéchinéwithGuillaume Canet, Catherine Deneuve and Adèle Haenel (1h56).
This is, well, this is Céline Sallette.
The film is called Geronimo and it is part of the special screenings.
Are you hearing the names? I am...like Cronenberg...Mathiew Amalric...Juliette Binoche...Marion Cotillard...Michel Hazanavicious, The Search...Jean-Luc Godard...
Well there you go...I'll make a list soon.
Ok, let's start with the big one, with ours brilliant Jane Campion, the President of the Official Competition:
"Captives" (Canada) dir. Atom Egoyan "Foxcatcher"
(U.S.A.) dir. Bennett Miller "Goodbye
To Language" (France) dir. Jean-Luc Godard "The
Homesman" (U.S.A./France) dir. Tommy Lee Jones "Jimmy's
Hall" (U.K) dir. Ken Loach "Leviathan"
(Russia) dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev "Maps
To The Stars" (Canada) dir. David Cronenberg "The
Marvel" (Italy) dir. Alice Rohrwacher "Mommy"
(Canada) dir. Xavier Dolan "Mr.
Turner" (U.K) dir. Mike Leigh "Saint
Laurent" (France) dir. Bertrand Bonello "The
Search" (France) dir. Michel Hazavanicius "Sils
Maria" (France) dir. Olivier Assayas "Still
The Water" (Japan) dir. Naomi Kawase "Timbuktu"
dir. Abderrahmane Sissako "Two
Days One Night" (Belgium) dir. Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardennes "Wild
Tales" (Argentina) dir. Damian Szifron "Winter
Sleep" (Turkey) dir. Nuri
Bilge Ceylan With Grace of Monaco opening the festival.
Our boy Xavier Dolan has made it to the big leagues. Finally, he says! His fifth feature film Mommy becomes part of the official selection, and it's a film that centers around two women. Per usual, you may recognize most of the names mentioned above, most of us were already expecting them. In eighteen films, we have two female directors, the Italian Alice Rohrwacher and the Japanese Naomi Kawasi. Names missing out Paul Thomas Anderson, Vinterberg, Malick, J.C. Chandor and french director Mia Hansen-Love, for instance.
Yes, this is possibly my most anticipated film.
Un Certain Regard brings: President of the Jury is the Argentinian Pablo Trapero.
"Amour
Fou" (dir. Jessica Hausner) "Bird
People" (dir. Pascale Ferran) "The
Blue Room" (dir. Mathieu Amalric "Charlie's
Country" (dir. Rolf De Heer) "Eleanor
Rigby" (dir. Ned Benson) "Fantasia"
(dir. Wang Chao) "A
Girl At My Door" (dir. July Jung) "Harcheck
mi Headro" (dir. Keren Yedaya) "Jauja"
(dir. Lisandro Alonso) "Lost
River" (dir. Ryan Gosling) "The
Misunderstood" (dir. Asia Argento) "Party
Girl" (dir. Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis) "Run"
(dir. Philippe Lacote) "Salt
Of The Earth" (dir. Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado) "Snow
In Paradise" (dir. Andrew Hulme) "Titli"
(dir. Kanu Behl) "Tourist"
(dir. Ruben Ostlund) "Unhappy
Youth" (dir. Jaime Rosales) "Xenia"
(dir. Panos Koutras)
There are more female names here.
Other films:
Out of Competition
"Coming
Home" (China) dir. Zhang Yimou "How
To Train Your Dragon 2" (U.S.A.) dir. Dean DeBlois
Midnight Screenings
"The
Rover" (dir. David Michod) "The
Salvation" (dir. Kristian Levring) "The
Target" (dir. Chang)
Special Screenings
"Bridges Of
Sarajevo" (anthology film) "Caricaturists:
Fantasies Of Democracy" (dir. Stephanie Valloatto) "Eau
Argentee" (dir. Mohammed Ossana) "Les
Gens Du Monde" (dir. Yves Yeuland) "Maidan"
(dir. Sergei Loznitsa) "Red
Army" (dir. Polsky Gabe)
For moments, I forgot the Cannes Film Festival is actually a month ahead. So plenty to study.
This week there are two major things happening on my
world, and on a few other people’s worlds!
Orphan Black! It’s one thing. Cannes
announcements! It’s the other thing. These are two major things. It’s the
best time of the year, the best time of the year! And it’s approaching. P.S.
And then it’s June…It’s fast…June, Orange is the new Black…yes.
It’s
been crazy over this syllable called tumblr,
where everything is Orphan Black. It’s like an event. It is in fact an event,
with each day, announcing new teasers and other things.
In New York.
At Coachella.
Films!
The other week I recapped Orphan Black, watched the
last five or six episodes straight. Just to catch up on my questions and doubts
and NO ONE CAN’T BE TRUSTED. There are loads of conflicts. And that’s what’s so
great about this show. There’s only so much you have to look for. But after
reviewing the show again and again, it still hits you. I feel like literally
forcing everyone to watch it. I want people to realize the talent of these
people, the writers, the technical department, the acting. Their brilliant work
and effort, their passion and finally this story that’s unfolding, always so
heartfelt, always so compelling.
Tatiana Maslany is always so heartfelt, it’s
unbelievable and beautiful and just utterly impressive. Every time I think about
it it’s like I’m hit with what she actually has done and then I realize her
brilliant work.
With the Cloneversation, happening this weekend, I
still have a hard time dealing with the fact that when I look at Tatiana
Maslany I’m in fact dealing with Sarah Allison Cosima Rachel Helena. It’s like
I’m kind of always waiting for Cosima to appear or something. Evelyne Brochu
has the same problems. It’s really a weird and challenging mind set, which only
adds to the fun of it all. On top of being this amazing show, you have this
wonderful and charming group of actors, so supporting and complementary.
Orphan Black becomes this quite special show because
it’s like the underdog, the little show that can, the heartfelt one, and so
people should support it for a number of reasons. Not only the show brings a
poignant theme, a theme for our times, it also brings other lines such as the
empowerment of women, they bring women representation, as a whole, not staying
in one or two dimensions, but in various dimensions and also brings the gay,
and it brings all of this in a serious and sober manner, by crossing it over,
by just becoming something inherent.
As I show you these recent pictures from the on going filming of Carol, Carrie Brownstein has been the most recent cast addition to the film. She'll be playing Genevieve Cranel (a minor role).
Also, I would like to point out this ordinary society standard situation that starts to occur, which is the way The Hollywood Reporter is describing the film - a lesbian drama, which I'm sure they won't be the only ones. As much as it might not be...inaccurate, it is so much more than that, it's really something more, something transcendent, something that everyone can relate to really; it's about discovering what love is and the terrifying idea of it all, it's about fighting for what's supposed to be everyone's rights, human rights, it's about the search for meaning in life, it's representing a generation, so to say it's a lesbian drama, it immediately narrows the essence of it, and it's wrong. We don't need it, I don't thing we ever really need stereotypes.
Just because I really miss Emily Blunt in something exciting that isn't a shallow blockbuster and other missed opportunities.
So Emily Blunt has been cast in the new Denis Villeneuve's film. Here's the quick synopses from IndieWire:
Per Variety, the story follows a police officer from Tucson, Arizona, who crosses the Mexican-American border with a pair of mercenaries to track down a drug lord. The script is penned by actor-scribe Taylor Sheridan ("Sons of Anarchy").
Just because I had no idea this was happening, and because it sort of made me laugh.
I'm obviously not going to watch this film. I would watch a fight with Ronda instead, even though it's pretty hard for me to watch to begin with, I can barely look at it.
