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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Arnaud Desplechin’s Jimmy P.
#1. Arnaud Desplechin’s Jimmy P. Gist: Desplechin’s first film in 5 years, his first English language, U.S. production pits muse Mathieu Amalric vs. Benicio Del Toro as the titular Picard. Adapted from Psychotherapy Of
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Joel & Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis
#2. Joel & Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis Gist: Follows an aspiring singer-songwriter (Oscar Isaac) as he navigates the 1960s folk-music scene in New York City’s Greenwich Village. T Bone Burnett produced the film’s
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Asghar Farhadi’s The Past
#3. Asghar Farhadi’s The Past Gist: Farhadi returns to the spotlight after the success of 2011′s A Separation, with a domestic drama about an Iranian man leaving his French wife and 2 children to
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Ari Folman’s The Congress
#4. Ari Folman’s The Congress Gist: In The Congress, an aging actress (Robin Wright) with a disabled child agrees to a large payment to have a full body imaging that will be digitized and
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God
#5. Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives Gist: Julien (Ryan Gosling) runs a Thai boxing club in Bangkok, but the business is a front for his family’s drug smuggling operation. When his brother is
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: James Gray’s Lowlife
#6. James Gray’s Lowlife Gist: An innocent immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grande Bellezza
#7. Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grande Bellezza Gist: The story of an aging journalist, Jap Gambardella (Toni Servillo, the man behind the Andreotti mask in Il Divo), who bitterly recollects his passionate, long-lost youth. A
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive
#8. Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive Gist: A story centered on two vampires who have been in love for centuries, the story follows Adam (Tom Hiddleston), an underground musician who reunites with his
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Catherine Breillat’s Abuse of Weakness
#9. Catherine Breillat’s Abuse of Weakness Gist: Abuse of Weakness will trace the autobiographical experience of Breillat with a notorious swindler. Isabelle Huppert stars as Maud, a film director recently paralyzed on one side,
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring
#10. Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring Gist: Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the Internet to track celebrities’ whereabouts in order to rob their homes. Prediction: With it’s mid-June release
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Grisgris
#11. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Grisgris Gist: It will tell the story of a 25-year-old man with a paralyzed leg who dreams of becoming a dancer, and starts to work for a gang of petrol smugglers.
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer
#12. Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer Gist: Based on the French graphic novel by Benjamin Legrand and Jacques Lob, Snowpiercer is set in a future where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Roman Polanski’s Venus In Fur
#13. Roman Polanski’s Venus In Fur Gist: Polanski’s wife Emmanuelle Seigner stars in this off-Broadway play adaptation about an actress trying to convince a director that she is perfect for a part in an
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Michael Rowe’s Manto Acuifero
#14. Michael Rowe’s Manto Acuifero Gist: Part of a trilogy of films based on solitude, this revolves around a couple who decide to divorce, affecting the emotional state of his daughter, who on her
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Color
#15. Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Color Gist: This centers on Jocelyne (Adele Exarchopoulos), who is 15 years old and is certain of two things: she is a girl, and girls go out
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Claire Denis’ Bastards
#16. Claire Denis’ Bastards Gist: Container ship captain Marco Silvestri is called urgently back to Paris. His sister, Sandra, is desperate… her husband has committed suicide, the family business has gone under, her daughter
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Tsai Ming-Liang’s Diary of a Young Boy
#17. Tsai Ming-Liang’s Diary of a Young Boy Gist: Tsai’s first feature since 2009’s, Face, this new one is set to recount the misfortunes of a father (Lee Kang-sheng, who else?) and his two
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye To Language 3D
#18. Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye To Language 3D Gist: The idea is simple: A married woman and a single man meet. They love, they argue, fists fly. A dog strays between town and country. The
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin
#19. Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin Gist: Based on Michel Faber’s 2000 novel, this is about Isserley (Scarlett Johansson), an extraterrestrial sent to Earth by a rich corporation on her planet to pick up
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Guillaume Canet’s Blood Ties
#20. Guillaume Canet’s Blood Ties Gist: Written by James Gray, with the ensemble cast of Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Mila Kunis, James Caan, Marion Cotillard, Zoe Saldana, Matthias Schoenaerts and Lily Taylor owning the
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Amat Escalante’s Heli
#21. Amat Escalante’s Heli Gist: Less encompassing than the Un Certain Regard selected Miss Bala, shot in various locations outside the city of Guanajuato, where most citizens work for an automobile assembly plant or
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Real
#22. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Real Gist: His first feature since Tokyo Sonata, which won the Un Certain Regard at Cannes, as well as best picture and script at the Asian Film Awards, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Real
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Serge Bozon’s Tip Top
#23. Serge Bozon’s Tip Top Gist: Based on the novel by British author Bill James, Tip Top follows two female police inspectors from the police’s complaints and discipline branch as they investigate the death
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves
#24. Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves Gist: Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Peter Sarsgaard and Dakota Fanning, this centers on three environmentalists who plot to blow up a dam. Prediction: While Wendy and Lucy was displayed in
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Corneliu Porumboiu’s A Nine-Minute Interval
#25. Corneliu Porumboiu’s A Nine Minute Interval Gist: We A Nine Minute Interval, I think we can expect some of the infused situational deadpan humor as in his previous pair, “it’s the middle of
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