67th Cannes Film Festival: Ostlund, Alonso, Argento, Ferran, Hausner & Ryan Gosling Make the Cut

Best Director winner Mathieu Amalric moves down from the Main Comp, Ryan Gosling changes the title of his film, Ned Benson trims an hour to become a rare 2013 film added to the fest, Asia Argento adds a touch of eclectic while Pascale Ferran and Lisandro Alonso add a little auteur clout while our bets are on Ruben Ostlund to shake up the section. Thierry Frémaux’s Un Certain Regard section for ’14 has six Camera d’Or (first-time filmmakers) hopefuls including our tipped for Cannes bet in Kanu Behl’s Titli, and the female filmmaker presence (Jessica Hausner, Keren Yedaya) make up for the lack of in the Main Comp. With only 19 announced titles, expect there to be room to add at least two more items. Here are the Un Certain Regard selections:

UN CERTAIN REGARD
“Amour fou” (Jessica Hausner)
“Bird People” (Pascale Ferran)
“The Blue Room” (Mathieu Amalric)
“Charlie’s Country” (Rolf de Heer)
“Dohee-ya” (July Jung)
“Eleanor Rigby” (Ned Benson)
“Fantasia” (Wang Chao)
“Harcheck mi headro” (Keren Yedaya)
“Hermosa juventud” (Jaime Rosales)
“Incompresa” (Asia Argento)
“Jauja” (Lisandro Alonso)
“Lost River” (Ryan Gosling)
“Party Girl” (Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis) (OPENER)
“Run” (Philippe Lacote)
“The Salt of the Earth” (Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado)
“Snow in Paradise” (Andrew Hulme)
“Titli” (Kanu Behl)
“Tourist” (Ruben Ostlund)
“Xenia” (Panos Koutras)