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Film in Pictures: Xavier Dolan’s Les Amours imaginaires
Xavier Dolan returns to the lieu that launched his filmmaking career. 12 months to the date after exploding onto the interntional film scene with the triple prize winning portrait of a love/hate relationship between teenage son and mother in I Killed My Mother, Dolan moves "up" a section going from the Director's Fortnight to the Un Certain Regard spot.
Film in Pictures: Gilles Marchand’s Black Heaven
In the interim, filmmaker Gilles Marchand stuck to his writing work supplying screenplays such as Lemming and Feux rouges for Dominik Moll and Cédric Kahn, but now wearing the director hat, Marchand will be returning to Cannes for the first time since 2003's Who Killed Bambi?
Film in Pictures: Agnes Kocsis’ Adrienn Pal
While Bela Tarr won't be ready with The Turin Horse, Hungary will be well represented by Kornel Mundruczó in the Main Comp and in the Un certain regard section next month we'll find Agnes Kocsis' second feature film. The Hungarian-Dutch-Austrian-French coproduction will be her second time in Cannes as she came to the festival in 2006 with her first feature, Friss levegö (Fresh Air) , which was her graduation film.
Final Cannes Changes: Jia Zhang Ke and Pablo Trapero in UCR, Mondruczo in Main Comp
The final changes are in for the make-up of the 2010 edition of Cannes and as expected Kornél Mondruczó's latest which now goes by the complete title of Tender Son - The Frankestein Project has been included in the main comp and Wang Xiaoshuaï's Chongqing Blues which was entered in the Un Certain Regard section has been bumped up by one. This would mean there are only 18 titles in total, which is two less from last year's total, and four less from the previous year.
Director’s Fortnight 2010: Bron, Civeyrac, Sivan, Kubat, Vandenberghe and Masset-Depasse
Cleveland Vs. Wall Street - Jean-Stéphane Bron
The doc film unfolds in Cleveland, in a small town shattered by a severe crisis stemming from low-cost mortgages. The mayor blames the big banks in America for the disaster. While two attorneys confront each other in the courtroom, seven witnesses are called up one after another. A jury court has to submit their verdict: guilty or not guilty? The Wall Street process as a modern fable about capitalism.
