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Angelo Austrian director Markus Schleinzer broke into the main competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival with his provocative 2011 debut, Michael (which plays like...

About half of our critics managed to see the unique screening for Michael earlier today -- it was given less screenings perhaps because it is the other film in this year's Main Competition from a newbie filmmaker. While Julia Leigh comes from a book author background, this import from Austria comes from a veteran casting director. Info was mum on the film beforehand, and there was a reason for it.

There is a lot of unpack here with the official competition offerings which consists of two international premieres and twenty world premieres for a...

With a total of 50+1 films from around the world, the Contemporary World Cinema programme could very well be a film festival in its own right. Once again loaded in Cannes North American premieres from, the section also includes world preem titles: Xiaolu Guo's UFO in her Eyes, Lynn Shelton's Your Sister's Sister (starring Emily Blunt see pic above), Nacho Vigalondo's Extraterrestrial and Christophe Van Rompaey's Lena. Among Cannes titles we can vouch for, which will play out in the section and happen to tell us that this world is not healthy state of affairs we have Andrey Zvyagintsev's brilliant Elena, Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala , and Markus Schleinzer' Michael.

Every Mann for Themselves: Pawlikowski Remains Chilly with Cold War Permafrost Two iconoclastic German writers are locked in a spiritual duel for relevance at the...