Cannes Film Festival chief
Terry Fremaux has unveiled a wide selection of movies that will play at this year's Cannes Film Festival from May 11th-May 22nd and although it might be a little light on big name American directors premiering movies, there's a few last minute additions and surprises today that literally has the OWF crew salivating at the mouth. As expected,
Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life will premiere at the festival but surprisingly the ambitious movie about life & the universe is going for an in-competition birth, which has to be a huge sign of confidence for the movie. It had been widely expected it would play as a special screening but instead it will be Malick's first time in competition for the Palme D'Or. Confirmations also came of movies we had long expected would play with Pedro Almodovar's dark horror thriller
The Skin That I Inhabit featuring his first collaboration with
Antonio Banderas since the 1980's, Lars Von Triers apocalyptic and probably pretentious
Melancholia, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardennes
The Kid With a Bike, Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylans
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia; Finnish helmer Aki Kaurismakis
Le Havre, Nanni Morettis
We Have a Pope (about a newly elected Pope and his sessions with a therapist) and Paolo Sorrentinos
This Must Be the Place, starring Sean Penn and Frances McDormand. A joyous, American movie surprise came with the late addition of Nicholas Winding Refn's crime thriller
Drive, bringing last year's impressive Cannes actors
Ryan Gosling (who rocked in Blue Valentine) and
Carey Mulligan (Wall Street 2) to the Croisette again. The 64th edition of the festival is sure looking stronger than the 63rd, which contained a number of underwhelming, mediocre and disappointment debuts. Good job Mr. Fremaux, you have our attention; In Competition: The Skin That I Inhabit - Pedro Almodovar LApollonide - Betrand Bonello Footnote - Joseph Cedar Paterre - Alain Cavalier Once Upon A Time In Anatolia - Nuri Bilge Ceylan The Kid With The Bike - The Dardenne Brothers Le Havre - Aki Kaurismaki Hanezu no Tsuki - Naomi Kawase Sleeping Beauty - Julia Leigh Tree of LIfe - Terrence Malick La Source de Femmes - Radu Mihaileanu Polisse - Maïwenn Le Besco Harakiri - Takashi Miike We Have A Pope - Nanni Moretti Melancholia - Lars Von Trier This Must Be The Place - Paolo Sorrentino Drive - Nicholas Winding Refn We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lynne Ramsay Un Certain Regard: Restless - Gus Van Sant Martha Marcy May Marlene - Sean Durkin The Hunter - Bazur Bakuradze Halt auf freier Strecke - Andreas Dresen Skoonheid - Oliver Hermanus Hors Satan - Bruno Dumont Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro - Robert Guédiguian The Days He Arrives - Hong Sang-Soo Bonsai - Christian Jimenez Tatsumi - Erik Khoo En maintenant, on va ou? - Nadine Labaki Ariang - Kim Ki Duk Loverboy- Ctlin Mitulescu, Toomelah - Ivan Sen Yellow Sea - Na Hong-Jin, Miss Bala - Gerardo Naranjo, Lexercice de lEtat - Pierre Schoeller, Oslo, August 31st Joachim Trier Travailler fatigue - Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra Out of Competition: The Beaver - Jodie Foster The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - Rob Marshall La Conquete - Xavier Durringer Kung Fu Panda 2: The Kaboom Of Doom - Jennifer Yuh Special Screenings: Labrador - Frederikke Aspock Le maître des forges de lenfer - Rithy Panh Un documentaire sur Michel Petrucciani - Michael Radford Tous au Larzac - Christian Rouaud