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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups
#39. Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups Gist: Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett, Antonio Banderas, Imogen Poots, Freida Pinto and Wes Bentley headline Malick’s latest, about a man and his excessive life of temptations.
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale
#40. Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Gist: From the Sundance guide: Oscar Grant was a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who loved his friends, was generous to strangers, and had a hard time telling the truth to
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Katell Quillévéré’s Suzanne
#41. Katell Quillévéré’s Suzanne Gist: Suzanne and Maria are sisters who are extremely, indeed intensely close. They have a happy childhood despite the absence of their mother, who passed away when they were still
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Claire Simon’s Gare du Nord
#42. Claire Simon’s Gare du Nord Gist: Claire Simon’s fourth feature film will see her applying her documentary style to the Gare du Nord railway station, a “Tower of Babel” where immigrants, European travelers
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Pascale Ferran’s Bird People
#43. Pascale Ferran’s Bird People Gist: Starring an acting mix of Radha Mitchell, Josh Charles, Anaïs Demoustier, Clark Johnson and Roschdy Zem, this takes place in the Paris area between an airport and an
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Albert Serra’s The Story of My Death
#44. Albert Serra’s The Story of My Death Gist: Also known as ‘Albert Serra’s Dracula movie’, the plot focuses on the transition between the 18th century (rationalism, the Enlightenment and sensuality) and the start
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Shinji Aoyama’s Dog Eat Dog
#45. Shinji Aoyama’s Dog Eat Dog Gist: Based on Shinya Tanaka’s novel, Dog Eat Dog revolves around a 17-year-old boy named Tooma Shinogaki who lives with his father and his father’s new girlfriend in
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: János Szász’s The Notebook
#46. János Szász’s The Notebook Gist: Not your remake of the Ryan Gosling film, based on Agota Kritóf‘s famous and bestselling novel of the same name (Le Grand Cahier), in a village on the
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Arnaud des Pallieres’ Michael Kohlhaas
#47. Arnaud des Pallieres’ Michael Kohlhaas Gist: This is an adaptation of Heinrich Von Kleist 1811 novella of the same name. Set in the sixteenth century somewhere in the Cévennes, Michael Kohlhaas is a
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Alain Guiraudie’s The Unknown Lake
#48. Alain Guiraudie’s The Unknown Lake Gist: “In this love story, two men meet in a nudist resort on the banks of a lake, but one of them is a murderer.” Alain Guiraudie is
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Frederick Wiseman’s At Berkeley
#49. Frederick Wiseman’s At Berkeley Gist: “For the past five weeks, with over 100 hours of film footage, famed documentarian Frederick Wiseman has been working to make UC Berkeley the subject of his 39th
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Hiner Saleem’s Aga
#50. Hiner Saleem’s Aga Gist: Starring Golshifteh Farahani (she was in his previous 2010 film, Si tu meurs, je te tue!), duel characters share the screen, Baran, a Kurdish independence war hero, is now
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Ben Wheatley’s A Field In England
#51. Ben Wheatley’s A Field In England Gist: Described as a psychedelic horror film, Wheatley’s latest is set during the English civil war, where a group of deserters is captured by an alchemist (Michael
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Robin Campillo’s Eastern Boys
#52. Robin Campillo’s Eastern Boys Gist: Featuring Olivier Rabourdin (Of Gods and Men), this focuses on one young adult, an immigrant who hangs out with others at the Gare du Nord train station in
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza’s Salvo
#53. Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza’s Salvo Gist: Salvo is a mafia killer in Palermo. Rita is twenty and blind from birth. Salvo sneaks into Rita’s house, to kill her brother. There is a
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Bertrand Tavernier’s Quai d’Orsay
#54. Bertrand Tavernier’s Quai d’Orsay Gist: Written by Christophe Blain, Abel Lanzac, and Tavernier, inspired by true events (the eve of the beginning of the Iraq war) in the life of France’s foreign minister
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Alexei Guerman’s Hard to Be a God
#55. Alexei Guerman’s Hard to Be a God Gist: While it may possibly be released as History of the Arkanar Massacre, we’re hoping this retains the same name as the novel it’s based on
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Steve McQueen’s Twelve Years A Slave
#56. Steve McQueen’s Twelve Years A Slave Gist: After the divisive and award-winning Shame from 2011, McQueen’s latest is a period piece set in the 1800s about a man from the north who is
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Spike Jonze’s Her
#57. Spike Jonze’s Her Gist: In the not so distant future, Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix), a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user’s every need; to Theodore’s surprise, a
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Lee Daniels’ The Butler
#58. Lee Daniels’ The Butler Gist: “Lee tells stories in a way no one else does,” says Harvey Weinstein, and I don’t think he’ll get any arguments on that point. In a surprising turn
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Urszula Antoniak’s Nude Area
#59. Urszula Antoniak’s Nude Area Gist: A project that’s sounds typically Antoniakian (right down to the title) – albeit less suffocating and more optimistic and spirited than usual – Nude Area sets out to
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine
#60. Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine Gist: It’s only been four years, but it feels like ages since Woody Allen has shot one of his films in the USA. Plot details are still under wraps,
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Alejandro Fernandez Almendras’ Matar a un Hombre
#61. Alejandro Fernandez Almendras’ Matar a un Hombre Gist: Jorge is a hardworking family man, who lives with his wife and two of his three sons. He earns just enough to cover their basic
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Djinn Carrenard’s Making Love
#62. Djinn Carrenard’s Making Love Gist: Filmed on the outskirts of Paris, Faire l’amour is about a mother who leaves prison in search of her daughter and about a handicap artist in search of
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2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Nicole Garcia’s He Left On Sunday
#63. Nicole Garcia’s He Left On Sunday Gist: Il est parti dimanche takes place during the weekend of Pentecost, a teacher in the South of France unexpectedly is charged with taking care of a
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"Ron and I wanted to make a film that looked at what it means to be an outsider and we wanted to explore what it takes to reach out to someone whose life is very removed from your own."
