2012 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Terrence Malick’s The Funeral

Gist: Regardless if this one is called The Burial or The Funeral, the official synopsis reads as such: this “concerns a philanderer (Ben Affleck) who, feeling at loose ends, travels to Paris, where he enters a hot-and-heavy affair with a European woman (Olga Kurylenko). Said Lothario returns home to Oklahoma, where he marries the European woman (in part for visa reasons). When the relationship flounders, he rekindles a romance with a hometown girl (Rachel McAdams) with whom he’s had a long history.”

Prediction: With four projects in various stages of production, we hope that Malick and co. had the good sense of locking this item down and storing it for a Cannes showing before putting too much energy elsewhere. Tree of Life received the last year’s Palme, and with the amount of glitter this project holds, you know that Malick’s producers would want to build buzz of a red carpet unveiling for the multiple territories holding the distribution rights to the film, and for what could be a bidding war between U.S distributors.