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Cannes Video Day 1: Behind Locker Number…
As a more economical way of previewing some of the films that are being featured daily at the festival, I've decided to come up with this quick featurette of a journalist retrieving the items in his press box. Today I received press kits for:
Tournée (On Tour) | Review
Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder: Almaric Gives Narrative an Early Certain Call
Cannes Video Day 1: Predicting How the Jury will Vote
While jury head Tim Burton doesn't have a specific mandate except to honour emotionally and intellectual sound films, I wouldn't be surprised if the jury of seven men and two women consisting of three actors in Kate Beckinsale, Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Benicio Del Toro, directors Burton, Shekhar Kapur and Emmanuel Carrere, completed by Alberto Barbera, Alexandre Desplat and Victor Erice pick a Palme d'or winner that isn't politically or human rights violation driven. Here are my predictions after the jump:
Key Players in the Cannes Market: Wild Bunch
Three titles that should receive a lot of attention in this year's fest are: Jorge Michel Grau's contempo cannibal film to break out We Are What We Are (see pic), and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson's Sound of Noise – a high risk film because it mixes genres together like someone grabbing whole bunch of leftovers from the fridge.
Key Players in the Cannes Market: Mk2
Infusing last year's Cannes with such unique films as Greece's Dogtooth, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno and the biking in the birthday suit comedy The Misfortunates, the all encompassing heavyweight French unit MK2 is on one of those odd winning streaks – managing to find/rep films that are celebrated at not only the major heavyweight film fests, but the “second tier” noteworthy fests as well – such as the Rotterdams and the Locarnos of this world we brought about Alamar (To the Sea) and Nothing Personal.
