Park City, Quebec and Tetro fill the Director’s Fortnight Bill

Three films (Amreeka, Humpday and I Love You Phillip Morris) that made their debut at Sundance, a trio of Quebecois filmmakers (Denis Cote, Denis Villeneuve and eighteen year-old Xavier Dolan) and surprise surprise, a legend in filmmaking will be taking over the Director’s Fortnight this year. Francis Ford Coppola had made an announcement which turned out (I’m guessing here) to work in his favor. The section is filled with preems and a good chunk of films that have already played elsewhere – Indiewire had shortlisted Lynn Shelton’s crowd-pleasing mumblecore film as a possibility and Denis Villeneuve’s Polytechnique inclusion wasn’t exactly a secret either (I made the mention here a couple of days back).

The Safdie brothers who closed the same sidebar last year with a short film and The Pleasure of Being Robbed have combined their efforts to bring another project in Go Get Some Rosemary, which oddly sounds like something my mother might have said when I was a young lad. The pair to watch out for in the section are Colossal Youth‘s director Pedro Costa who returns to Cannes with his docu on Jeanne Balibar called Ne change rien. Three year’s back he got beat up by critics. Woman Is the Future of Man‘s Hong Sang-soo (who I originally balked at including in my predictions for the Main Comp) is finally going to showcase his latest work (Like You Know it All) in the 41st edition of the section that is also know as La Quinzaine. For other breakdowns of the films, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and a bit on Screen Daily. 

DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT LINEUP

“La Pivellina,” Austria, Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel

“The Alasness of Things,” Belgium-Netherlands, Felix van Groeningen

“Eastern Plays,” Bulgaria-Sweden, Kamen Kalev

“Carcasses,” Canada, Denis Cote

“J’ai tue ma mere,” Canada, Xavier Dolan

“Polytechnique,” Canada, Denis Villeneuve

“Navidad,” Chile, Sebastian Lelio

“Oxhide II,” China, Liu Jia Yin

“La famille Wolberg,” France-Belgium, Axelle Ropert

“Land of Madness,” France, Luc Moullet

“Le roi de l’evasion,” France, Alain Guiraudie

“Les beaux gosses,” France, Riad Sattouf

“Yuki & Nina,” France-Japan, Nobuhiro Suwa, Hippolyte Girardot

“Ajami,” Israel-Germany, Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani (closer)

“Daniel & Ana,” Mexico-Spain, Michel Franco

“Karaoke,” Malaysia, Chan Fui (Chris) Chong

“Ne change rien,” Portugal-France, Pedro Costa

“Here,” Singapore-Canada, Tzu-Nyen Ho

“Like You Know It All,” South Korea, Hong Sang-soo

“Amreeka,” U.S., Cherien Dabis

“Go Get Some Rosemary,” U.S.-France, Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie

“Humpday,” U.S., Lynn Shelton

“I Love You Phillip Morris,” U.S.-France, Glenn Ficarra, John Requa

“Tetro,” Argentina-Spain-Italy, Francis Ford Coppola (opener)

SPECIAL SCREENING
“Montparnasse,” France, Mikhael Hers

SHORT FILMS

“Cicada,” Australia, Amiel Courtin-Wilson

“Jagdfieber,” Belgium, Alessandro Comodin

“Superbarroco,” Brazil, Renata Pinheiro

“Anna,” Denmark, Runar Runarsson

“Nice,” France, Maud Alpi

“The Fugitives,” France, Guillaume Leiter

“Thermidor,” France, Virgil Vernier

“The History of Aviation,” Hungry, Balint Kenyeres

“Song of Love and Health,” Portugal-France, Joao Nicolau

“Dust Kid,” South Korea, Jung Yu-mi

“The Attack of the Robots from Nebuma-5,” Spain, Chema Garcia Ibarra

“Drommar Fran Skogen,” Sweden, Johannes Nyholm

“American Minor,” U.S., Charlie White

“John Wayne Hated Horses,” U.S., Andrew Betzer