Festival Predictions

2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Hong Khaou’s Lilting

Published on April 2, 2013

#82. Hong Khaou’s Lilting

Gist: Placed third on 2011 Brit List, with Ben Whishaw toplining, Lilting tells the story of a mother’s attempt at understanding who her son is after his untimely death. Her world is suddenly disrupted by the presence of his lover. Together, they attempt to overcome their grief whilst struggling against not having a shared language.

Prediction: Critics’ Week. Michael Winterbottom mentored the Cambodia-born, Vietnam-bred London-based filmmaker Hong Khaou (his 2011 short Spring, was selected for Sundance and Berlin) a true mishmash of a background just like the composition of the film itself — which commenced filming in November and which the filmmaker himself compares it stylistically to Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love. Like Broken in the previous year, the section unearths its fair share of talented U.K first-time feature-length filmmakers.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).