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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.
Hold Up One Minute: Romain Goupil’s Latest Should Crack Cannes Line-Up
No official announcement has been made yet by the fest, but it looks les films du losange, the French distibution co. will see a fourth film in this year's Cannes line-up (added to the previously announced Chantrapas, Des filles en noir and Cleveland Vs. Wall Street). The culprit is a former winner of the Camera D'or back in 1982 for Mourir à 30 ans in Romain Goupil, a name I'm not familiar with would return to the fest with Les mains en L'air (a.k.a. "Hands Up") a drama starring Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Hippolyte Girardot and loads of child actors
Cannes 2010: Short Film Competition
A whopping 5000 submissions and only nine films accepted. That's the nature of the Short Film Competition for the Cannes Film Festival. I plugged a couple of film titles into the search engine to see if there are some early glimpses -- I uncovered some paintings from Serge Avedikian's animated Chienne D’Histoire -- a rather disturbing tale about how Paris rid the capital of vagabond dogs. Here are the lucky 9 who'll compete for their own Palme D'or.
