Festival Predictions

2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: James Gray’s Lowlife

Published on April 14, 2013

#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 being held in the confines of Ellis Island.

Prediction: There were some rumblings last week that this wouldn’t make the cut for some reason, but we think there’d have to have been some kind of major fallout or disaster to have occurred behind closed doors (who’s doors I do not know) for this to be Gray’s first film since Little Odessa to not play in Cannes’ Main Competition; it’s been finished for at least six months (clip was shown at Telluride), just waiting for mid-May to arrive. Not yet a prize-winner, we also have a hunch that Gray’s losing streak will finally come to an end this year.

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Blake Williams

Blake Williams is an avant-garde filmmaker born in Houston, currently living and working in Toronto. He recently entered the PhD program at University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute, and has screened his video work at TIFF (2011 & '12), Tribeca (2013), Images Festival (2012), Jihlava (2012), and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. Blake has contributed to IONCINEMA.com's coverage for film festivals such as Cannes, TIFF, and Hot Docs. Top Films From Contemporary Film Auteurs: Almodóvar (Talk to Her), Coen Bros. (Fargo), Dardennes (Rosetta), Haneke (Code Unknown), Hsiao-Hsien (Flight of the Red Balloon), Kar-wai (Happy Together), Kiarostami (Where is the Friend's Home?), Lynch (INLAND EMPIRE), Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs), Van Sant (Last Days), Von Trier (The Idiots)